Multitasking Is An Efficient Method Of Increasing Productivity While Conserving Time

Multi-tasking can have positive effects. What is multitasking. Multitasking is performing multiple tasks- doing several things- at the same time . A example of multitasking could be when a person is watching tv, doing homework, eating, and doing research on something all at the same time. Some positive effects of multitasking may include: preparing one for future jobs that could require multitasking, learning to use multiple senses simultaneously, improved productivity/accomplishing more in less time, leaving more time for social or leisure activities and thereby reducing stress.

Can you think of the last time you sat down and read a book without watching your favorite show on T.V. , or when you last cooked dinner without texting on your phone at the same time? It is almost impossible to live our day to day lives without multitasking. Seen as a quicker, more efficient way to get things done, and giving people the sense of being superhuman, multitasking may not be as beneficial as we think. Is multitasking beneficial, and are we shrinking our brain’s by taking on more than one task at a time? Defined in the online article Multitasking The Cognitive Costs of Multitasking, multitasking is “performing two or more tasks simultaneously, switching back and forth from one thing to another, involves performing a number of tasks

Over the past decade, we have seen an increase in a number of car accidents. Innocent lives have been taken away, because of reckless driving by humans due to the misconception of multitasking. To prevent these acts of violence, many states have passed laws that inhibit drivers from using a cellular device. To bring awareness of this impulsive act numerous cell phone providers and advocates have started campaigns such as “it can wait” and “stop text stop wrecks”. Yet, there are still people who take careless action that jeopardize other’s life. Cell phone use is an epidemic problem that is dangerous and unlawful. Recent studies show cell phone use while driving has much greater effect than driving intoxicated.

The RAC Foundation, a British nonprofit that focuses on driving issues recently asked drivers to use a driving simulator to see how texting while driving affected them. “Although doing many things at the same time...can be a way to make tasks more fun and energizing”, one must “keep in mind that you sacrifice focus when you do this”(Tugend B2). The study showed that reaction times dropped by as much as 35%, far more than while driving drunk or stoned. Those statistics show that multitasking, or attempting to perform two tasks that require large amounts of concentration, can actually prove fatal(Tugend B3). Verna von Pfetten’s opinion of multitasking follows along the same lines as Tugend’s whereas she describes how multitasking actually causes one to “feel tired at the end of the day”(Pfetten A3).

Texting and driving is one of the most dangerous situations teens put themselves in. A study performed by the RAC Foundation shows that teens who text and drive have a slower reaction time by 35%. This reaction time is even slower than someone who is driving stoned or drunk (Tugend). Teens are putting their lives at risk when they get behind the wheel. As Tugend explains, teenager’s reaction time slows down significantly while sending a text. Teens need to learn to wait until they arrive at their destination to send texts or communicate on the phone. This form of multitasking has taken thousands of lives every year. As Adams comments, “Teens often think that texting and driving is not a problem...About 80% of US teens aged 16 to 17 years own a cell phone. More than half of US teens have talked on the phone while driving and about one-third report texting and driving” (Moreno 1172). The scary part about texting and driving is that so many teens think it is okay. They believe that everyone uses their phone so why should they be any different. Unfortunately, it sometimes takes a real life experience of them or someone they know getting in an accident for this to change. Texting and driving is just one of many forms of multitasking that can be very harmful and needs to

What you view as harmless multitasking affects your efficiency because our brains have cognitive limits. According to “How to Do One Thing at a Time” published by Women’s Health Magazine, Clifford Nass, Ph.D., a professor at Stanford University performed an experiment on a group of students. A group of students was asked to spend 30 minutes to compile a playlist, chat, and write a short essay. Another group of students spent 10 minutes focusing on each task individually. After they completed their tasks, they were given a memory test. Professor Nass concluded that single-taskers did significantly better on the memory test than multi-taskers.

Their whole research is based on idea of multitasking, or in the other words, the handling of more than one task at the same time by a single person. Their sources state that engaged in multitasking, subject is not able to fully intake all the information that is being presented at the certain moment. Moreover, their research hypothesis is that subjects who activley use cell phone engaged in face to face conversation with a person who is not using their cell phone will be less likely to retain as much as information as someone who is not using cell phone. I really liked the way they organized everything and how they set up their experiment. Two groups, experimental and control were presented to the same set of questions about the states and president candidates. Expermiental group was asked to search up the results on the phone while being asked some of the questions. Control group was simply asked the questions without their usage of the phone. Really smart way of presenting how multitasking has an effect on the working memory! Their results support their hypothesis because control group was able to retain information better than experimental group.

Growing up with four sisters you don't know what quiet is. Someone always is fighting, whining, needing help with something, or all of the above. Ultimately never letting you get a break from the chaos. Eventually you get used to it and almost always ending up preferring the noise over silence. Not only does this build your multitasking skills but also the important skill of focus. It takes a lot to ignore all the noise and be able to keep your mind on track, which for me these skills are through the roof because the environment I’ve adapted to.

Why do you multitask? Well, how else can you accomplish everything you need to get done? You believe you are the epitome of productivity and efficiency,getting so much done all at once.

Multitasking is necessary in today’s society. It’s a requirement for jobs and for today’s modern, daily life style.Even though we embrace multitasking it is certainly not benefiting us. We have accepted multitasking without taking in mind that every rose has its thorn. Multitasking supports us by saving us time, but

I totally agree with that multitasking save a lot of time in the day. Also the feeling of doing different things at once makes me feel accomplish. I could relate to you while I’m doing homework I also tend to listen to music to help me concentrate. If I don’t listen to music; I would not be as focus. Music helps my brain to be in task and not daydream. I know that some people actually don’t like multitasking since they want to focus on one thing. Since if they focus on to many things then the total outcome of all those things wont be as great. I totally get people like this because sometimes when I multitask I feel like I’m not focusing my attention as much to that one task. Which result into just wasting my time, and have to do it over again.

Multitasking is becoming very significant on the workplace to complete the task in less time. In fact, some people believe that multitasking saves time and can be done at all together. On the other hand, some people think that it is a distracting activity which leads to a lack of concentration. According to David Silverman, “In Defense of Multitasking”, multitasking is “crucial to survival in today’s workplace” (522). However, I do not agree because multitasking reduces productivity, increases stress levels and it is, especially, problematic for students.

Multitasking is what has made today today. As time has moved on, things become faster and faster, the way we travel, production has increased, and how fast we have to work. There is this misconception that multitasking causes people to lose focus easily, that people who can focus on a mono task is always better in terms of performance. People who want to focus on a single task become more easily distracted and that that’s always a bad thing when completing tasks. Multitasking is usually seen as inferior in the work environment compared to people who can focus on a single task but no one is willing to point out the flaws within monotasking. Multitasking can save not only the multi tasker's time but as well as the people around them, it is seen as damaging to the brain but it also improves the brain in other areas, it may seem like the reason why people can never finish what they need to in a timely manner but sometimes there are benefits to come with that. Within today’s culture people want things done well and done fast, to do that multitasking is a necessary skill.

Multitasking is very common among college students, especially in lecture halls. In most cases, there would be no surprise if a student were to walk in a classroom and see over half the class distracted by their computers or cell phones. It is also seen within the dorm room or bedroom, when a student reading their textbook but taking breaks to send a text message. With the transition to college, there is more freedom given to students, and that freedom looks like technology in the lecture halls. Multitasking is the using two (or more) things that contradict each other in means of gaining attention in very different ways, ultimately dividing your attention (Pashler, Kang & Ip, 2013). Multitasking is commonly seen when a student is in lecture and being lectured to but also texting on their cell phone or online shopping all the while. This paper is research report, evaluating studies conducted on positive and negative correlations between multitasking while studying and the results seen in the student’s overall GPA.

Reading 1: Using Task Context to Improve Programmer Productivity Multitasking is good when it comes to computer programs, letting them do more with less. But when computer programmers start multitasking, productivity flies out the door. Programmers have to keep a lot of things in their heads at once, and the more they remember, the more productive they are. A programmer coding at full throttle is keeping zillions of things in their head at once. Everything from names of variables, data structures, important APIs, the names of utility functions that they call a lot, even the name of the subdirectory where they store their source code. On top of that, as applications have become more collaborative, complex, modular, and distributed, developers are having to track an increasing number of tasks and deal with more interruptions from the people with whom they 're collaborating. As a result, they 're multitasking more frequently and becoming less productive. Keeping programmers productive in these fragmented work environments is a challenge for large software developers as well as for IT shops developing for end users. In this paper, the authors present a mechanism that captures, models, and persists the elements and relations relevant to a task. They show how these task context model reduces information overload and focuses a programmer’s work by filtering and ranking the information presented by the development environment. Operations