Your brain isn’t weak—it’s overloaded. Learn how multitasking harms focus, memory, and productivity, and why neurologists ...

Does multitasking help us be more productive, or is it just stressing us out? Here's what experts say. (Getty Creative) The allure of multitasking is hard to ignore. Of course it sounds like a great ...

As a CEO, I know that one of the best things to come out of the past year is the accelerated acceptance of a hybrid work model. Employees have done a remarkable job balancing the typical distractions ...

Research shows that even brief mental blocks created by shifting between tasks can cost as much as 40% of someone’s productive time, the equivalent of dropping 10 IQ points from our cognitive ...

Most of the literature coming out of education circles these days fingers multitasking as contributing to lower achievement levels among students. The essential argument goes: you’re not really ...

You’ve likely heard that multitasking is problematic, but new studies show that it kills your performance and may even damage your brain. The researchers measured all subjects’ efficiency when ...

On the surface, the concept of multitasking sounds dynamic and kind of cool—the word originated in the 1960s computer boom, after all, and retains its connotations of hyper-competency and ...

We all do it: Texting while walking, sending emails during meetings, chatting on the phone while cooking dinner. In today's society, doing just one thing at a time seems downright luxurious, even ...

Automakers have turned dashboards into glossy slabs of glass, inviting drivers to swipe, scroll and tap their way through ...

Android’s multitasking story is finally catching up with the hardware it runs on, and the next wave of changes looks less ...

Despite it being a common stereotype, women are no better than men at multitasking, a study published Wednesday suggests. The study, published in the journal Plos One, found that while women tended to ...