Melinda French Gates said she tends to focus on one task at a time to avoid mistakes. She said multitasking is a myth and led to errors in her career. During her career at Microsoft, multitasking was ...

For nearly all people, in nearly all situations, multitasking is impossible. When we think we’re multitasking, most often we aren’t really doing two things at once but instead, individual actions in ...

WITH ever more work piling onto our desks, you’d have to be the most adept multitasker to get it done. But multi-tasking is a myth and here’s how to convince your boss. At the moment, he’s perched on ...

The idea of “male / female brain” still persists, and one of them is “women are better at multitasking than men”. The latest study denied this idea and concluded that “multitasking is not good for ...

How many tabs do you have open in your Web browser right now? How many of them are work-related? How many of them are centered on the same task? Multitasking, conducting two unrelated tasks at the ...

Multi-tasking is what most working mothers would say they do most of the time - but apparently it is bad for your health. Experts say that emailing on your Blackberry and talking on the mobile, while ...

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 ...

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