Multitasking: Switching costs
Studies consistently show that multitasking is inefficient.
Shifting between tasks can cost you up to 40% of productive time.
Studies consistently show that multitasking is inefficient.
Shifting between tasks can cost you up to 40% of productive time.
Rest can facilitate the consolidation of newly formed memories. Even a few minutes of rest with closed eyes can improve memory, perhaps to the same degree as a full night of sleep.
17 hours of sustained wakefulness, such as a long day in the office, has been shown to result in behavioural changes equivalent to drinking 2 glasses of wine.
After 24 hours, you may act as if you have drunk 4 glasses of wine. Diminished cognitive performance can have huge repercussions for professionals whose jobs demand critical attention to detail, such as surgeons, pilots, and drivers.
Poor quality sleep can result in bad leadership and an un-productive team.
It is associated with leader daily abusive behaviours and ego depletion, which in turn affects work engagement and performance.
Worrying about their next workday during the evening, is associated with employees’ well-being even before employees are facing it.
A University of California study found that after each interruption it takes over 23 minutes to refocus.
Chronic multitaskers perform worse on core multitasking skills: memory management, cognitive filtering and task switching, likely due to their inability to filter irrelevant stimuli.