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{ 2007 03 26 }

Shun multitasking if you want to be productive!

Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic – New York Times is making me think twice about having my email window open on my desktop most of the time:

    In a recent study, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports or computer code, after responding to incoming e-mail or instant messages. They strayed off to reply to other messages or browse news, sports or entertainment Web sites.
Posted by Raymond Yee on Monday, March 26, 2007, at 9:21 am. Filed under HCI. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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