insight : amber de la garza
Friend or Foe? The Impact of Multitasking on Your Productivity
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BY AMBER DE LA GARZA, THE PRODUCTIVITY SPECIALIST
ong before I started my own business, potential employers found the skill of multitasking proudly listed on my resume. I thought I was great at it. I thought my ability to multitask made me more productive. I thought companies would want to know that I could split my attention in multiple ways. I thought multitasking was my friend, a companion I could lean on to help me get more done in less time. I thought wrong. As work environments become increasingly more demanding, one may think that if you want to be efficient and productive in your work, you should attempt to excel at multitasking. The problem? Multitasking is one big lie!
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| NOVEMBER + DECEMBER 2021 | wf-vision.com
Things can truly go awry when we attempt to multitask, and I’m sure most of us have a story we could share. Perhaps you were measuring a client’s window, paused to check texts or calls and then ended up scribbling down the wrong dimensions. Custom materials are ordered and you end up eating the cost because you were multitasking. I encourage you to not let it happen again. Time is our most important asset, and attempting to multitask results in wasting it. Great at your job you may be, but you are simply not capable of doing two attentionrequiring activities at once and doing them both well.
