Quartz: “There are two ways to multitask, but only one works” (Gloria Mark cited)

September 10, 2018

In offices, people get interrupted repeatedly throughout the day. … Interruptions cost the United States an estimated $650 billion a year. University of California, Irvine computer scientist Gloria Mark estimates that it takes 25 minutes, on average, to get back to task! Some people in the study never did.

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