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Multitasking Harmful To Productivity

Posted by timothy on from the better-turn-off-the-television dept.

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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  1. Re:That's mainly for thinking tasks.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    you stupid fuckwit... you make no sense... and the retarded moderator doesn't what the fuck he's doing... go fuck a goat you flaming faggot homosexual

  2. Re:Multitasking==Good CPU by wanton · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Even more reason Microsoft can lead to decreased productivity.

  3. Ugh.. Stupid logic, again. by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 0, Flamebait



    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.

    --
    Bowie J. Poag

  4. Re:Multitasking Efficiency Dependent on Sex? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Amazing. You typed that while sucking your own dick!