There is a particular kind of workday that begins with one useful tab and somehow ends with 23, three half-written messages and the nagging feeling that plenty happened, but the important thing did not.
From October 12–16, Fabuwood took a collective step away from that familiar cycle during InFocus Reset Week. Over five days, employees were encouraged to cut through the digital noise, make room for meaningful work, and become more intentional about where their attention went.
What was InFocus Reset Week?
InFocus Reset Week was a company-wide initiative designed to help employees recognize everyday workplace distractions, protect time for focused work and establish healthier ways of working together.
The week built on InFocus, an ongoing Fabuwood initiative created to help employees become more present at work. It began by addressing the pull of personal phones and continued through InFocus Revival Week, monthly challenges such as Silent Power Hour and Meeting-Free Mornings, and the InFocus name plaques distributed at State of the Company.
Reset Week expanded that idea to reflect the many ways attention gets divided today. Even when the phone stays out of sight, email alerts, chat notifications, open tabs, incoming questions and rapid task switching can still compete for the same few hours.
The goal was never to track productivity or keep employees unavailable all day. It was to make focused work easier while leaving room for urgent business needs, necessary collaboration and the conversations that keep a company moving.
Why did workplace focus matter?
Modern work can create an impressive amount of motion without leaving much room for progress. Microsoft’s research into the “infinite workday” found that employees using Microsoft 365 were interrupted by a meeting, email or notification every two minutes on average. Nearly half of surveyed employees described their work as chaotic and fragmented.
The brain also pays a price each time attention moves elsewhere. The American Psychological Association’s research on multitasking explains that switching between tasks introduces small cognitive costs that accumulate throughout the day, potentially increasing the time and errors involved in completing complex work.
Even when interrupted work gets finished quickly, the human cost can remain. A University of California, Irvine study found that participants compensated for interruptions by working faster, but experienced greater stress, frustration, effort and time pressure in the process.
In other words, the work may get done, but the person doing it often pays the difference.
Five days gave focus a fighting chance
Instead of offering abstract productivity tips, Reset Week gave employees one clear action to practice each day.
Monday reset the space.
Employees started the week by putting personal devices away, silencing extra notifications, closing unused tabs and clearing some of the visual and digital clutter competing for their attention.
Tuesday protected the time.
A 90-minute company-wide focus block created space for employees to work on one meaningful task without nonurgent interruptions. This form of time blocking gave important work a real place on the calendar instead of asking employees to squeeze it between everything else.
Research suggests that this kind of intentional scheduling can make a noticeable difference. In a small workplace experiment, Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab found that employees who redesigned their calendars around their priorities reported making greater progress on high-impact work, with many continuing those habits after the experiment ended.
Wednesday brought attention back to one task.
Employees chose one task, removed one distraction and completed one meaningful step before switching. The exercise replaced the usual juggling act with something far more useful: progress.
Thursday closed an open loop.
Employees selected an unfinished item that kept pulling at their attention, then completed it, handed it off, scheduled it or closed it. The goal was not to finish everything in one afternoon. It was to stop carrying something that no longer needed to live rent-free in the mind.
Friday recognized the people behind the progress.
Employees thanked teammates in Confirm who had helped them stay focused, then selected one InFocus habit to continue using after Reset Week. The week may have ended, but its most useful ideas were meant to stay.
The reset was never meant to stay at work
Reset Week may have taken place inside Fabuwood, but InFocus was built around a much wider mission: helping people become more present wherever life is happening.
At work, turning a plaque created a visible boundary around someone’s attention. At home, the InFocus Drawer brings that same idea into the kitchen by giving personal devices a dedicated place to remain out of sight while charging within the cabinetry. Developed with FreePower technology and unveiled at KBIS 2026, the drawer was created around a simple belief: technology should support the room without taking over the people inside it. The full story behind its development is explored in Presence is the New Power: The Revolutionary Dawn of the InFocus Drawer.
The InFocus Drawer does not ask families to abandon the technology they rely on. It gives them a natural moment to put it away. Phones can disappear during dinner, homework or the slow stretch of evening when conversation has a chance to go somewhere. Devices receive the power they need while the people in the room reclaim something more valuable: uninterrupted time together.
That idea can become part of an everyday home routine. As shared in Back to School, Back to Calm, families can place devices inside the drawer after homework, clearing the counter and table for dinner, conversation and the rest of the evening. A small physical action can create a much larger emotional shift: the phone goes away, the room settles and the people already there become easier to notice.
This is where the InFocus mission stretches far beyond a single workplace initiative, product or week on the calendar. It is a growing conversation about how companies can protect employees’ attention, how homes can support healthier boundaries and how intentional design can give people more space for the parts of life that cannot be answered later.
Let the phones recharge out of sight. Give the people in front of you the greater gift: your full attention.
