Multitasking

Psychologists who study cognition when people try to perform more than one task at a time have found that the mind and brain were not designed for heavy-duty multitasking.

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It's often the little things that are huge time wasters, and often we don't know it. Try our fun calculator to find out how much time you waste each year!

The measurement of "switch costs" is held to be of interest because, as is widely believed, they may reflect the control processes that are engaged when subjects switch between two (or more) competing tasks. [In task-switching experiments, the reaction time (RT) switch cost is typically measured as …

In the Peoples And Teams section of the Professional Scrum Master course, we discuss the impact of Task Switching. We discuss that task switching destroys efficiency and quality.  Using the work of  Gerald Weinberg's book, Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking, the course shows that if someone is working on 2 projects simultaneously the effort spent on both isn't 50% but 40%. The individual who is switching loses 20% effort to context switching.

What is context switching and why is it ruining your productivity. Discover the true costs of context switching and how to avoid them to improve focus. Read now!

Notifications are annoying—but they’re also bad for you and your work. In the 2022 Anatomy of Work Index, we found that over 50% of workers feel they need to respond to notifications ASAP. See how context switching can be harmful and 9 tips to battle it.

Explore the switch cost effect in more detail, examining what it is, how it affects productivity, and what you can do to minimize its impact.

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It may sound hard to believe, but multitasking is an effective way to get less done. Juggling multiple tasks at once interrupts your focus, which can cause you to spend more time on each task than if you had completed them one at a time.

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Whenever someone warns you that you shouldn't be working on different things, tell them the problem is multitasking, not multiprojecting.

InfoQ article by Roger Brown that also mentions Weinberg's stats on multitasking.