Timely advice for getting a grip on information overload in the workplace This groundbreaking book reveals how different kinds of information overload impact workers and businesses as a whole. It helps businesses get a grip on the financial and human costs of e-mail overload and interruptions and details how working in an information overloaded environment impacts employee productivity, efficiency, and morale. * Explains how information-often in the form of e-mail messages, reports, news, Web sites, RSS feeds, blogs, wikis, instant messages, text messages, Twitter, and video conferencing walls-bombards and dulls our senses * Explores what we do with information * Documents how we created more and more information over centuries * Reveals what all this information is doing Timely and thought-provoking, Overload! addresses the reality of-and solutions for-a problem to which no one is immune.