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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Task switching may be cutting your productivity by 40%. Here’s what the multitasking research says and the fix that actually works ...

Quit multitasking and focus on giving one task your undivided attention at a time.

Multitasking may give you the illusion that you’re getting more done. But it’s actually a poor tool for efficiency. Despite that — and after decades of ever-increasing expectations for productivity — ...

Multitasking gets blamed for almost everything modern work has broken. Burnout, brain fog, and that constant feeling of being busy while finishing nothing that actually matters. But multitasking ...

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You’ve been told that multitasking is a bad idea. Articles and essays appear every day telling you why multitasking is dangerous, makes things take longer, tires out your brain, reduces the quality of ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

Only 2.5% of people can genuinely handle two cognitively demanding tasks at once without measurable performance loss, according to research from the University of Utah. For everyone else, what feels ...