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 ...

The article argues that "multitasking" in complex environments like an airplane cockpit is a myth; pilots actually "serial-task," rapidly switching focus between individual tasks. Attempting to cram ...

A new Georgetown University study says multitasking can be improved with repetition, but only with certain tasks.

Busy working mom Erika Robinson is all too familiar with the multitasking world we live in. "We have to come home to think about what we gotta do for ourselves and what we gotta do for our children.

Have you ever gotten good at the wrong thing? I think it might have happened to me. Yesterday, I read this article about the myth of multitasking -- how what we once thought of as skillful juggling is ...

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 ...