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The information overload can lead to disadvantages such as:
 
Lack of strategic thinking
 
Health problems
 
Lack of time
 
Ignoring Information Context
 
 
 
Factors leading to information overload:
 
People play safe and get all information possible
 
The collection of information just in case it may be useful
 
The receive of enormous amounts of unsolicited information
 
The ease of duplication and transmission of data across the Internet
 
A lack of a method for comparing and processing different kinds of information
 
 
 
List some of the solutions to information overload:
 
Focus on concepts and principles rather than on details and data
 
Intelligent agents
 
Push technology
 
In order to cope with information overload a personal information management strategy needs to be developed
 
 
 
How can you determine the information overload?
 
Feeling inundated by the need to absorb huge amounts of information
 
Not knowing where and how to obtain the information
 
Not knowing if the information is needed and applicable
 
 
 
Do you know many percent of the workweek do the white-collar employees(administrative workers) waste looking for information?
 
11% of their workweek
 
16% of their workweek
 
67% of their workweek
 
42% of their workweek