I think the "ability" to multi-task is over-rated. Not every job or every assignment is best handled in this way is it? I think a huge amount of quality and efficiency is being lost by people not managing one thing at a time. Working on four projects all due at the same time is not necessarily better than working on each one individually until completion and having each one turned in a week at a time. I am thinking quality is often being sacrificed and truly time saving is not the reward because you have to push back the date on 3 projects further than need be to juggle all four.
I surely understand some positions require you to be able to juggle a variety of tasks but should this apply to everything??? Is there no value in finishing something started in the timeliest fashion and having given it your completely undivided attention. I just wonder if we are not creating a work environment that encourages distractions, interruptions, and paying cursory attention to many things at once. As someone who teaches students with ADD/ADHD I find this a diturbing trend. I spend a lot of time trying to teach students to concentrate on tasks and complete them but maybe I am leading them astray from future work expectations.
Any thoughts?
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