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The cost of multitasking
From the course: Agile Foundations
The cost of multitasking
- Multitasking is the opposite of focus. You're working on everything at once, hoping to be more efficient. This trend is common in the workplace. Many job descriptions require the skill of multitasking in a fast-paced environment. If you have a set amount of time and a set amount of tasks, then it just seems to make sense that you'd want to work on them all at the same time. However, multitasking has a hidden cost. Think of your own experience. Maybe you were writing an office memo and then suddenly got an email from your supervisor, so you stop writing the memo and you start reading the email. Then decide to jot out a quick reply. When you went back to the memo, you probably had to take a few moments to review where you left off. Then once you got writing again, there might be another email. Each time you switch between tasks, you have to do a little bit of thinking to get back on track. Humans have a difficult time switching between work items. The transition period for your brain…
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