The frenzied pursuit of responding to everything leads to multitasking – and the resulting interruptions would have fit neatly into what Ralph Waldo Emerson called “emphatic trifles.” If you’ve heard ...

During a time when the boundaries between our work and our personal lives feel tenuous at best, multitasking feels like a natural solution. Working from home means juggling Zoom calls and coworker ...

Before coming to academe, I worked in a research institute studying information technology. Looking back, the pace seems almost luxurious as I was able to concentrate on a single project at a time.

Perhaps you find yourself trying to prepare lunch, send emails and schedule meetings all at once. Or you try to at least. But perhaps what you've found is that when you multitask, you’re constantly ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Despite the pressure to multitask in our increasingly frantic world, experts warn about the dangers of multitasking – lowering our IQs, ...

We’d like to think that we can multitask — respond to emails, text messages, toggle between multiple tabs on a browser, and scroll through social media feeds, whilst working on important tasks — but, ...

On the surface, the concept of multitasking sounds dynamic and kind of cool—the word originated in the 1960s computer boom, after all, and retains its connotations of hyper-competency and ...

Peek through the windows of most tech companies and you’ll likely see hordes of multitasking millennials. Conventional wisdom has been that if you hire a bunch of millennials and set them to ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We have been told that multitasking is good for work productivity, but we intuitively know constant multitasking makes us stressed out.

If you’ve ever fallen back on that old stereotype that women are somehow better at multitasking than men, a study released Wednesday may make you change your tune. The study was conducted by two ...

Put another way, you actually want your employees to think they’re multitasking. Here are four ways to promote the perception of multitasking among employees. 1. Clearly distinguish between ...