Do you talk on the phone and check your emails at the same time?
Do you make two presentations at one go? Are you completing more
than one file? Are you on your Blackberry even while driving? If
yes then you are multitasking. Multitasking in simple words is
doing too many things at one single time. When most people refer
to multitasking they mean simultaneously performing two or more
things that require mental effort and attention. So what happens
when you multitask at work? In today’s competitive life need for
multitasking is rising but getting habituated to multitasking at
work can show poor effects on your work and also on your health.
But what happens when you constantly multitask at work? You Lose
Focus People, who multitask, often lose their focus. For e.g.
you have a meeting in an hour, you are busy making presentation
at one end and at other end you are surfing the net. You are
continuously switching your focus from presentation to internet
resulting in no focus. According to the study of David Meyer,