text: I've heard the same thing said about earlier generations. Gen X, baby boomers, sandwich generation, etc. 
  
  
  
  I don't buy it and the studies about distractions in open floor plans (higher stress) and about multitasking (humans, no matter their "generation", are terrible at it, especially men) don't bear it out, either. 
  
  
  I especially do not understand that millennials would be all that special in this regard. If anything, earlier generations - like boomers and the "greatest generation" lived through some of the biggest disruptions in history: radio, television, air travel, car and consumer culture with nuclear families living in the burbs, leading up to the rise of the net and mobile. They saw it all and many adapted quite well to it. 
  
  
  Of course, then there is the problem that "generations" are mostly a construct that has dubious merits....