Kill the innovation killer: social media
The truth is, most of your employees don’t even enjoy wasting time on social media.
Social media apps do anything to bind users’ attention
More eye-ball-time = more ads shown = $$. Building addictive products is the best shortcut to maximize attention-based business models. What it does to users’ (mental) health doesn’t matter to them.But it should matter to you
Employees’ (mental) health is the foundation of great creative work and productivity.Incredible focus and mental health gains starting at 0.19€ per employee per month.
Less scrolls, more goals
Reduce distractions
- 64% of employees visit non-work related apps and websites every day during work hours.2
- Most popular distractions: Facebook, Linkedin, Amazon, Twitter, Pinterest.3
- one sec reduces social media usage by 57%.1
Boost productivity and creativity
- Businesses spend more than 9000€ per worker per year on distractions.4
- Multitasking decreases worker performance by 40%, the equivalent of 3 hours per worker per day.3
Mental health up, stress down
- Studies show that heavy social media use is associated with an increase of psychological distress, depression, and anxiety.5
- Employees who are distracted during work have higher levels of stress, frustration, mental effort, feeling of time pressure and mental workload.3
- 10-minute breaks (without social media!) between meetings help to reset the brain, make your employees engage more and be less stressed.6
Empower your teams to thrive
100% private, on-device
one sec handles all user data with greatest care: no account required, and no server collecting user data. We earn money through subscriptions, not by selling user data.
Intrinsic motivation
Most employees want to reduce time on social media but fail, as sophisticated Silicon Valley algorithms fight against them. We tackle that problem at its root: breaking the dopamine feedback-loop of social media.
Personalized
Each team member can easily configure the apps they struggle with the most. To help them manage their distractions best, the intervention is fully customizable.
Tangible results
After using one sec for a couple of weeks, users can see how much time they have saved with one sec. Most employees report to save several weeks of time each year.
The science behind one sec:
- Directing smartphone use through the self-nudge app one sec: PNAS Journal
- Why & How Your Employees are Wasting Time at Work: salary.com
- Worker, Interrupted: The Cost of Task Switching: fastcompany.com
- Collaboration & Social Tools Drain Business Productivity: openviewpartners.com
- Julia Brailovskaia, Fabienne Ströse, Holger Schillack, Jürgen Margraf. Less Facebook use – More well-being and a healthier lifestyle? An experimental intervention study. Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 108, 2020, 106332, ISS 0747-5632, doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2020.106332
- Research Proves Your Brain Needs Breaks: Microsoft Worklab