http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/blog/work-family-and-technology Work and Family Blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:59:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/blog/work-family-and-technology/comment-page-1#comment-670 Jed Rose Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:17:52 +0000 http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/blog/?p=125#comment-670 Related to your thoughts on how time pressures and technology have made us more fragmented and less efficient, I fairly recently gave up on multitasking as a work practice. Multitasking means you never pay anything the attention it deserves for very long, you are constantly being interrupted or interrupting yourself, your stress level goes through the roof and, no surprise, though you are "successfully" juggling lots of stuff, nothing ever really gets finished to a satisfying conclusion. Related to your thoughts on how time pressures and technology have made us more fragmented and less efficient, I fairly recently gave up on multitasking as a work practice. Multitasking means you never pay anything the attention it deserves for very long, you are constantly being interrupted or interrupting yourself, your stress level goes through the roof and, no surprise, though you are “successfully” juggling lots of stuff, nothing ever really gets finished to a satisfying conclusion.

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