Sophie Leroy, a professor at the University of Washington, coined the term “attention residue” to explain why your workday ...

We pride ourselves on doing more in less time, juggling emails, decisions, and deadlines as if productivity were a competitive sport. But what feels like efficiency is often just rapid task-switching, ...

When transplant surgeons switched between different organ types in consecutive surgeries, one-year mortality rates in patients increased by 14.8 percent, according to new Virginia Tech research. The ...

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 ...

Modern work culture has increasingly come to glorify multitasking. We make a habit of answering emails during meetings, checking messages while writing reports, and hopping between tabs dozens of ...