We live in a world filled with distractions. Throughout the workday, 79% of workers report feeling distracted. Employees lose an estimated 720 hours a year because of workplace distractions. As a ...

ED Physicians Switch Tasks, Ward Physicians Multitask: Work Management Strategies Physicians in the emergency department are most likely to interrupt one task to perform another while ward doctors are ...

Are you constantly bombarded with emails, Slack messages, project updates, and urgent requests from your boss? Today, this is the norm for most of us. This rapid switch between activities, context ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Curiosity expert improving engagement, innovation, and productivity. In today's always-on workplace, one of the most overlooked ...

Does this describe you? While you are on a teleconference call you are writing up your quarterly report, checking your email, and texting your friend about where you are meeting for lunch. You would ...

Cognitive control enables individuals to adapt their behaviour in response to changing environmental demands, playing a pivotal role in everyday functioning. Task switching, a core component of ...

In the busy world of entrepreneurship, wearing the proverbial “many hats” may make you feel like you're all over the place. There are many roles we often find ourselves having to fulfill — business ...

Task switching should be the cornerstone of a modern UI, not something that is slapped on top of it as an afterthought. For me, most of the current UI´s handle it as an afterthought, including iOS, ...

Google Tasks is a straightforward organization tool that’s tightly integrated with Gmail, Calendar, and other Workspace apps. A small redesign of Google Tasks for Android and iOS introduces tabs that ...