Multitasking Is Inefficient

Posted by Editormum on 27 August 2003 in Uncategorized | ∞

I want to register a protest against the now-ubiquitous requirement that people in business be “proficient at multitasking.” Multitasking, for the uninitiate, is the ability to keep a couple dozen plates spinning without dropping any, usually while whistling Dixie or talking on the phone. That is, the person whose job description includes “able to multitask” […]