Time Cost of Multitasking

Many people think that they can get more things done in a day by multitasking. It makes perfect sense – if you’re always doing more than one task at a time, you’ll be able to accomplish more in less time. Well it turns out that this theory, however logical it may seem, is wrong. Studies show that multitasking is a productivity killer. The amount of time spent cleaning up mistakes from work that was produced with divided attention is typically greater than the amount of time the same work would take when executed with a person’s focused, undivided attention.