Rob's Rants

Multitasking is all the rage in today's society. Not only are we being expected to do more .... we need to do more things simultaneously. In work meetings have been replaced with conference calls. It used to be that we had conference calls because the team was geographically diverse ... and then I realized I was having conference calls with people that all worked in the same building as me. Now it seems we never have face-to-face meetings anymore just so we can sit on the phone and "multitask" at our desks. Well studies have been done and the results are in .... guess what ... multitasking does not work. Surprised??? During the average work day, we are interrupted every 3 minutes, and on top of that we usually don't resume the task we were working on for 20 minutes. It ends up that because of this 3 minutes on 20 minutes off cycle the tasks we're trying to perform lack "deep thought" and it ends up we don't do ANYTHING very well.

For more, check out this CBC Radio "Quicks & Quarks" segment.