This has been known and demonstrated for decades, but we're still ordered to do it anyway. If I were more of a conspiracy theory type I would think that Machia

This has been known and demonstrated for decades, but we're still ordered to do it anyway. If I were more of a conspiracy theory type I would think that Machiavellian managers demand multitasking precisely because they know that it does cause problems that they can blame on their underlings later whenever anything goes wrong so they come out looking great. But that would be crazy talk, of course.