Multitasking Harmful To Productivity

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 5, 2001 @07:59PM 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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Nothing new by Ubi_UK · 2001-08-05 21:00 · Score: 1, Redundant

Ford discover this a long time ago while setting up the production line: If the task you perform is as simple as possible (i.e. the same thing all of the time) the efficiency is the highest.