Multitasking Harmful To Productivity

Greyfox writes: "According to a CNN article, a person who is multitasking several things takes a hit on his productivity. Oddly enough, it reads almost exactly like a description of the problem with multitasking on computers; context switches cost, especially if you have to swap a lot of crap out in order to fit the new process into memory. So basically, an employee who can stay focussed on one thing for long periods of time is going to have higher productivity than one who has to handle constant interrupts. Now if I could get my manager to buy into that ..."

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Ugh.. Stupid logic, again.

[Bowie J. Poag]

Timothy, people like you would have rejected the invention of the wheel because "it takes so much time to chip one out of stone that you can just drag it along the ground in half the time!"

Smarten up. Please.