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Interesting article. My favorite sentence is this though, "Open offices may seem better suited to younger workers, many of whom have been multitasking for the m
by chrisgd 12y ago
Interesting article. My favorite sentence is this though, "Open offices may seem better suited to younger workers, many of whom have been multitasking for the majority of their short careers."
Despite what I want to believe and what I have been told (all companies only want to hire multitaskers!), multitasking is neither productive nor really possible. You can really only do one project at a time.
- enraged_camel 12y agoWhat they call "multi-tasking" is actually an inability to stay focused on one task due to a combination of procrastination and sheer boredom. So if you keep switching between writing a sales report, reading incoming email and conversing with your neighbor, congratulations, you may not be getting anything done, but you are multi-tasking!
- chrisgd 12y agoI am an expert multi-tasker!
- stygiansonic 12y agoSpot on. What most people refer to as "multitasking" is really a constant partial-attention deficit.
- Florin_Andrei 12y agoHowever, it works great if you just need to put up a façade.