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The allure of multitasking is hard to ignore. Of course it sounds like a great idea to take that meeting from the car, or to have Real Housewives on “in the background” while you work, or to ...
Multitasking is mentally and physically stressful for everyone, [3] to the point that multitasking is used in laboratory experiments to study stressful environments. [4] Research suggests that people who are multitasking in a learning environment are worse at learning new information compared to those who do not have their attention divided ...
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Despite the research, people from younger generations report that they feel multitasking is easy, even "a way of life." They perceive themselves as good at it and spend a substantial amount of their time engaged in one form of multitasking or another (for example, watching TV while doing homework, listening to music while doing homework, or even all three things at once).
While multitasking is driven by a conscious desire to be productive, continuous partial attention is an automatic process motivated by the desire to constantly stay connected. Stone describes the reason for continuous partial attention as "a desire to be a live node on the network" [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Erik Hollnagel at the Crisis and Risk Research Centre at MINES ParisTech; Human Reliability Analysis Archived 2011-10-15 at the Wayback Machine at the US Sandia National Laboratories
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Work intensity is defined as activity in relation to the capacity for that work. [1] It is a topic that affects developed and developing countries in different ways. There are many aspects to work intensity including multitasking, time poverty, health implications, and policy considerations.