如果你已伏案工作90分钟以上，那么这时候你需要休息一下。研究表明在集中精力工作一段时间之后，适时地休息一下有助于提高工作表现。

原汁原味阅读澳洲会计师公会会刊INTHEBLACK对此的深入分析：

Is taking a well-earned break every 90 minutes the secret to better performance? Perhaps it’s time to fashion a work practice that listens to our bodies and not 24/7 technology.

In the Zen Buddhist tradition a story is told of a student asking his master:“What is enlightenment?” The master answers: “When hungry, eat. When tired, rest.” Following such sensible advice sounds straightforward, but the suggestion of resting when tired – especially when you’re at work – can seem far-fetched or even offensive to time-poor, overstretched workers.

Psychotherapist Richard Hill, a trainer in neuroscience and human behaviour, encourages his clients to take rest breaks specifically at the 90-minute mark after a focused work session.

This time frame is based on the idea that after one and a half to two hours, our attention and energy wane due to the cycling of various biological processes.

Hill even conducts his therapy sessions over 90 minutes, like his mentor Dr Ernest Rossi, a psychotherapist in the US who has been researching the 90- to 120-minute cycle since the 1980s.

“When I first learnt about these rhythms nine years ago, it made total sense to me,” says Hill.

“I was working as an actor at the time and knew that the show couldn’t be anylonger than two hours or you would lose people’s attention.”

Psychological research shows that speed and accuracy suffer when we stayon a task too long. But is there anything special about the 90- to 120-minute time frame? Or is it simply that taking breaks is good for performance?

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