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Researchers confirm what many workers intuitively know: You’ll be less productive if your attention is spread too thin.
Researchers confirm what many workers intuitively know: Excessive multitasking may result in the work flow equivalent of a traffic jam. You’ll be less productive if your attention is spread too thin.
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1 Comment On: How Too Much Multitasking at Work Can Slow You Down
Multitasking makes sense when our total attention isn’t required for the task at hand.
Unfortunately these days we try to multitask 3 or 4 projects. If any one of these are complicated and needing sole focus, all the projects will suffer.
We have to know when to say “No.”