2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
The Institute for the Future (IFTF) conducted a study that examined the experiences of employees in Fortune 1000 companies. It found that each of them receives an average of 178 messages a day and is interrupted at least three times in an hour. It is clear that productivity does not increase from this
David Meyer (director of the University of Michigan Laboratory of Brain Function, Cognition, and Human Performance) identifies three types of people at risk of falling prey to multitasking.
1. The first are those who are forced by life to work in an unnatural rhythm. Such people try to do several things at the same time (for example, talking on the phone and looking at papers and mail).
2. The second are those who multitask without realizing it.
3. The third type of people are those who pride themselves on their "multitasking ability"
“A lot of people deceptively think they're good at this,” Meyer says. “But the problem is that everyone’s brain is the same, and it doesn’t work that way. In reality, no one can effectively perform more than one complex task at a given time.”(C)
Our brains are multifunctional, and may well be considered a multitasking processor, however, unlike operating systems, it and its properties are not well understood. Paradoxically, modern technology, instead of simplifying our lives, has made it even more complicated. We are only from 1998 to 2016 witnessing the technical and informational revolutions, when the value of a person's information flow has increased hundreds of times, and the human brain (if we simplify and exaggerate) all the polysyllabic processes of receiving, processing, reproducing, analyzing information, adapts to this new reality. Remember that children who grew up in the era of gadgets are easier to manage with them than adults - the process of adaptation!
How does the psyche cope with this? - Quite simply, it lowers other sensitive zones. For example, constant work in multitasking mode leads to overload and a chronic feeling of fatigue, especially if the tasks are related to the functioning of one hemisphere (for example, the "logical" left), then the sensitivity of the emotionally creative hemisphere - (right) decreases. A person becomes less emotional, moves from creative solutions to algorithms, and if the situation is not standardized, it is difficult for him to find a solution, which in turn increases the general level of anxiety. And an increased level of anxiety (cortisol) leads to other disorders - fatigue, asthenia, sleep disturbances. This is typical for people of type 1, and many managers who try to compensate for the lack of timing / time management by multitasking, note "emotional coldness", decreased efficiency and pleasure from the work performed.
As for people of type 2 (this is more the kingdom of women), because in society, a woman bears the burden not only at work, but also in the administration and predictable planning of family life, therefore, most women live in a multitasking mode, especially those with children. The only thing that saves them from "burnout" is the alternating switching of creative tasks to analytical ones. For example, being an accountant, a woman decorates her house as a "designer", or sews a New Year's suit for a child for a matinee. Also, type 2 people include administrative positions, both local within the framework of one company / office and the business as a whole (Business owners). This is also a multitasking process of the simultaneous functioning of many subsystems. With which people with a logical-sensory subtype can cope without overloading without problems. Their natural features enable them to multitask effectively.
Type 3 includes people with unstable attention and a weak will function, for whom, in order to become effective, they need to “feed” themselves with multitasking, since it is difficult for them to concentrate on one process. When tested, they tend to show the worst results.
What if you recognize yourself in a group?
If you are uncomfortable, you get tired, performing your usual functions at work, do not feel the rise after completing the completed task, others tell you about your “coldness”, contact a specialist!
They will help you find the reason for the decrease in your efficiency and eliminate the problem by choosing individual tasks - these can be time management classes, will training, or vice versa, the development of creativity in yourself, etc.
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