Multitasking, such as taking notes while on the phone and replying to emails at the same time, involves handling multiple ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Task switching may be cutting your productivity by 40%. Here’s what the multitasking research says and the fix that actually works ...

When you think you’re multitasking—responding to emails while listening to a conference call while monitoring chat messages—your brain is actually rapidly switching between tasks rather than ...

Melinda French Gates believes in taking on tasks one at a time. During a Monday appearance for her new book, "The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward," French Gates responded to a ...

The article argues that "multitasking" is a myth, especially in a cockpit, and that individuals actually "serial-task" by rapidly switching their focus between different activities. Attempting to ...

This week, my travels took me to Irvine, California, where I spent time filming a series of videos highlighting our top-performing agents and showcasing our network’s Global Open House. One promo in ...

Apple's "Get a sneak peak into the future of iPhone OS" event, in two days, is reason enough to re-raise the thorny topic of multitasking on smartphones. Apple's iPhone OS 3.x -- on iPad, iPhone and ...

Only 2.5% of people can genuinely handle two cognitively demanding tasks at once without measurable performance loss, according to research from the University of Utah. For everyone else, what feels ...

There is a sense of pride often felt when multitasking, as if we have defied human nature by completing more than one high-level brain task at a time, rendering us both superhuman and incredibly ...

Sometimes my head hurts. Usually it's precipitated by a period of time when I'm in a state of multi-tasking chaos. I come to that state quite naturally. Those of you who know me know that I'm the ...

Task switching may be cutting your productivity by 40%. Here’s what the multitasking research says and the fix that actually works. AFP via Getty Images Only 2.5% of people can genuinely handle two ...