Although checking email while listening to your iPod and trying to study or talking on you cellphone with a hands-free headset and driving at the same time might seem save you valuable minutes throughout the day, New York Times columnist Steve Lohr says that recent studies reveal the opposite effect.
Vanderbilt University published findings last December that show the brain's ultimate loss of efficiency when trying to handle two tasks at once. Though the delays may be only seconds long, the difference is crucial when considering response time while driving at high speeds.
Oxford University recently completed a study demonstrating that young people have equal difficulty to older adults when it comes to remaining efficient while multitasking.
While there is a point at which multitasking creates an optimum work efficiency, more intense multitasking--constantly checking emails, answering every phone call--will ultimately lead to a loss in productivity.
To read the article in its entirety, please go to Slow Down, Brave Multitasker.
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