Every American swears they’re “so busy,” yet somehow we all manage to lose entire workdays inside browser tabs we don’t remember opening. The digital drain is relentless. You sit down to answer one email, and suddenly you’re reading about a 1990s celebrity divorce you didn’t even care about the first time. Somewhere inside this mess, actual work is supposed to happen.

StudyFinds highlights new data from Shift’s 2026 State of Browsing Report, and the numbers feel bleak in a very modern way. Twenty-one percent of Americans get distracted online multiple times an hour. Thirteen percent lose half an hour recovering from each interruption. Not an hour a day. Half an hour every time the brain gets yanked off-task. If focus had a pulse, this would qualify as a medical emergency.

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