"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 is good for you, insists leadership development consultant Roger Flax. You just have to pick the right kind, where the circuitry of your brain is working in harmony rather than fighting ...

So why do so many of us still try to multitask? We’re too busy with too much to do and too little time to do it in. The temptation to accomplish multiple things at the same time is practically ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I am standing in the kitchen, drinking a glass of wine and waiting for a saucepan of water to boil. I’m staring ...

Britons are increasingly overlapping their media habits - tapping out e-mails while watching TV, reading a paper while answering texts from friends. But, asks Hugh Wilson, does media multi-tasking ...

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 ...

Muti-tasking in this day and age can leave you in a bit of a tizz. Juggling too much technology at once – such as texting or browsing online while watching TV – is said to make you less efficient. But ...

Sticking to one task at a time is an increasing rarity, as things such as checking social media while watching TV, or online shopping while on the phone become the norm. But if you have ever talked to ...

The people who engage in media "multitasking" are those least able to do so well, according to researchers. A survey defined two groups: those who routinely consumed multiple media such as internet, ...