Your ability to mentally disengage from one task before starting another matters more than motivation or discipline. Here’s how this habit makes or breaks productivity.

Some people don’t struggle with productivity. They just need more transition time for their brain and nervous system to reset between roles, tasks and states.

ED Physicians Switch Tasks, Ward Physicians Multitask: Work Management Strategies Physicians in the emergency department are most likely to interrupt one task to perform another while ward doctors are ...

Are you constantly bombarded with emails, Slack messages, project updates, and urgent requests from your boss? Today, this is the norm for most of us. This rapid switch between activities, context ...

We can’t really do more than one thing at a time, experts say. But these tactics can help. By Anna Borges Multitasking is just the way many of us live. How often do you text while stuck in traffic, ...

Cognitive control enables individuals to adapt their behaviour in response to changing environmental demands, playing a pivotal role in everyday functioning. Task switching, a core component of ...

Does this describe you? While you are on a teleconference call you are writing up your quarterly report, checking your email, and texting your friend about where you are meeting for lunch. You would ...

You sit down at 8 AM with a clear plan, and by 9:30 am, you have toggled between email, Slack, a sprint board, a document review, and a surprise calendar hold that wasn’t there yesterday. Context ...

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