Context switching is crushing your team: Here’s how to spot it (and stop it)

You lose 23 minutes every time you switch tasks.

Multiply that by Slack pings, surprise meetings, urgent incidents, and scattered documentation and you’re way beyond “busy.” You’re burning half the day just trying to refocus.

In this episode of Appfire "Beyond the flame," solution architects Dan Tombs and Ed Gaile break down the real cost of context switching, and why it’s quietly driving burnout, disengagement, and lost productivity across engineering and IT teams.

You’ll learn:
• Why siloed tools and scattered knowledge make focus nearly impossible
• How a single incident can derail 12+ hours of productive time
• Where automation eliminates handoffs and repetitive lookups
• How AI surfaces the right information inside your workflow — not in another tab
• What better knowledge design looks like across Jira, Confluence, Slack, and beyond
• How platforms like Rovo connect context instead of just returning search results
• The metrics that actually matter: time in flow, escalation patterns, and satisfaction signals

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