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NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF MULTITASKING
Multitasking — we all are guilty of this from time to time, and this is what the 21st century has made us to do despite our efforts to reduce or stop we are constantly multitasking.
Multitasking is doing multiple things at once (like answering a phone and composing an email at the same time). Multitasking is a new normal & every office worker is performing multitasking subconsciously.
It is part of the lifestyle, and trying to do one thing at a time is not “EFFECTIVE and EFFICIENT “ any more. While most of us indulge in several activities at the same time thinking that we are saving time, the fact is that multitasking makes us slow and less efficient.
We’re all splitting our finite time between higher priority tasks and consistent interruptions from lower-priority, less time-consuming to-dos like text, instant message, and face-to-face interruptions. And if you allow all of these interruptions to pull your attention to different tasks throughout the day, you’re essentially spending the entire day multitasking.
So here we are discussing why you shouldn’t multitask.
