Kinda like WFH, this varies a lot from people to people. Well, I don't know about the damage part, but definitely, for some of us, intense multitasking leads to

Kinda like WFH, this varies a lot from people to people. Well, I don't know about the damage part, but definitely, for some of us, intense multitasking leads to cognitive decline (it was reversed for me hence why I said "I don't know about the damage part") I spent a few years working on a Support team, at least a couple of those years managing that team, and part of my job involved being interruptible with a very short response time, on several different channels (I mean email, IM, phone, etc.) I liked that job as I met great people and learned a lot, but the moment I was able to shift into a more focused position (within the same company) I felt a great relief, an improvement in my quality of life, and a recovery of my cognitive skills. At that same company, I had (had because I no longer work there, we're still friends of course) a great friend, someone whom I know since we were 16 (We're 44 now), and he's the exact opposite and took the opposite path: He started off doing dev work, focusing on just a few tasks at a time, but it didn't work for him (even though he was amazing at his job) and ended up loving working as a support engineer. He thrives in an environment where he gets interrupted multiple times per hour (!!) during his work day, with no impact at all on his cognitive skills. In fact, not only is he a great problem solver, while dealing with multiple problems in parallel (and the interruptions include having to jump on a screen-sharing session without warning, something I can't tell you how much I feared and despised when I had to do that job!), he can tell you by heart the numbers of all the tickets he's working on, including their description and context. And I don't mean while working, I mean over beers at a meetup ... The one thing we both agree on is that we love WFH and would never, ever go back to an office (he's been WFH pretty much all his life, while I've been doing that for 15 years now). And just as that is the case for us, I also know personally people who don't like WFH and need to go to an office every day in order to be productive and to feel a human connection with their coworkers.