白領輕鬆瀏覽網頁有助於提高工作效率

Next time you are caught surfing the Internet in the office do not apologise - it is actually making you a better worker. Browsing the Web can refresh employees and make them the more productive, a study has found. Those who surfed the Internet as a break from their duties came back better prepared than people who made a phone call or texted their loves ones.
　　這個消息老闆聽了也許會不大高興，因爲下一會您在工作時間休息間隔時間上上網瀏覽網頁、查看八卦信息、和朋友網聊什麼的就再也不用道歉了，研究顯示，上班休息時間做一些“與工作無關”的事情，比如瀏覽網頁什麼的，確實可以愉悅心情、使得工作效率大大提高。此外，經過研究得出結論，在工作間隔休息時間用“瀏覽網頁”消磨時間的員工，比那些用“打電話”“和女朋友”發短信來消磨時間的員工返工時工作效率要高得多。

The researchers concluded that looking at the Web could serve an ‘important restorative function’ for those stuck at a computer all day.

雖然，對那些一天到晚“用電腦來工作”員工來說，傳統的放鬆方法是去戶外呼吸呼吸新鮮空氣、伸伸胳膊踢踢腿什麼的，然而，時代不一樣了，研究人員稱，瀏覽網頁可以被視爲一種“重要的修復功能”能夠更好的提高工作效率。

Dr Lim added that when surfing the Web people ‘usually choose to visit only the sites that they like- it's like going for a coffee or snack break. ‘Breaks of such nature are pleasurable, rejuvenating the Web surfer’. Nobody can control what they receive in an email so it is ‘cognitively more demanding, relative to Web surfing, as you need to pay attention to what is said on the email,’ she said.

專家Dr Lim分析：“上班休息間隔時間瀏覽網頁確實能提高工作效率，對於那些用電腦工作的人來說，工作時間不能看自己希望的網站是特別痛苦的時間，所以，休息時間能對自己的電腦‘爲所欲爲’就是相當令人愉悅的事情了！就那收郵件來說，沒有人能決定郵件的內容，收郵件的過程相當於一個被動的接受過程，比較痛苦。然而，憑藉自己的喜好瀏覽網頁，就相當於只關注郵件的內容，並且是自己喜歡郵件的內容。那有誰會因此而不高興呢？”

A growing number of studies have suggest the opposite of what the research says - that browsing the web is ‘rewiring’ our brains to make us less productive. Amongst the leading critics is American technologist Nicholas Carr who has written a provocative article in The Atlantic magazine entitled: 'Is Google Making us Stupid?'

儘管如此，還是有相當一部分人提出了瀏覽網頁的弊端，他們認爲瀏覽網頁重寫了我們大腦的接受方法。批評家 Nicholas Carr 還以一篇名爲《谷歌正在讓我們變弱智》的論文抨擊瀏覽網頁這種習慣。