Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
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Re: Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
#2Multitasking adds more stress and in my experience also leads to burnout a lot quicker. It also makes more errors which makes it counter-productive in a lot of cases.
Re: Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
#3So what to do now with that? It is the total opposite of "modern" work environments. Can't escape multitasking or can I?
Re: Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
#4I'd vote to have no notifications (of any kind) from chat & messaging tools as the default. This too especially at work to reduce overload of multi-tasking. Even showing the number of messages on an icon in the taskbar is very distracting.
Re: Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
#5Again and again, people just refuse to accept that cognitive performance has very clear limits, and that multitasking, skipped breaks and long hours are, at best, a total waste of time. And exponentially so, the more “focus-intensive” the work is.
Why do we have this bias? Is it deeply wired in some sort of survival instinct?
Re: Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
#6Again and again, people just refuse to accept that cognitive performance has very clear limits, and that multitasking, skipped breaks and long hours are, at best, a total waste of time. And exponentially so, the more “focus-intensive” the work is. Why do we have this bias? Is it deeply wired in some sort of survival instinct?
Puritanism?
Re: Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
#7It's better to single task on a multi-task assignment than multi-task on a single-task assignment.
Re: Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
#8> So the next time you're writing your boss an email during a meeting, remember that your cognitive capacity is being diminished to the point that you might as well let an 8-year-old write it for you.
Yeah, no. Stick to the paper and stop trying to sensationalize it, please.
Re: Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
#9Again and again, people just refuse to accept that cognitive performance has very clear limits, and that multitasking, skipped breaks and long hours are, at best, a total waste of time. And exponentially so, the more “focus-intensive” the work is. Why do we have this bias? Is it deeply wired in some sort of survival instinct?
If only work was organized to avoid multitasking.
Re: Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
#10Again and again, people just refuse to accept that cognitive performance has very clear limits, and that multitasking, skipped breaks and long hours are, at best, a total waste of time. And exponentially so, the more “focus-intensive” the work is. Why do we have this bias? Is it deeply wired in some sort of survival instinct?
I think what you say is true over the long term, but not so much over the short term. Need me to skip breaks and work hours for one day when I'm well rested. I definitely can be significantly more productive than usual. Problem is that it's not sustainable.