Most of us find multitasking appealing. And media multitasking—reading a book while watching TV—is irresistible, even when the results are less than optimal. Most people aren’t good multitaskers. (See ...

"Multitasking means screwing up several things at once," somebody once said, wrongly. In fact, we don't do many things at once, ever. We do many things in quick succession. And some of us are very ...

Multitasking can make you more distracted because you constantly switch tasks. Multitasking often slows you down because it ...

It really is you this time. From "mouse-first" habits to ignoring Virtual Desktops, here is how you’re accidentally slowing down your own PC.

How many times have you been asked during a job interview, “Are you a good multitasker?” or “How do you juggle multiple tasks at once?” How often has your boss said that you need to multitask better ...

You’ve been told that multitasking is a bad idea. Articles and essays appear every day telling you why multitasking is dangerous, makes things take longer, tires out your brain, reduces the quality of ...