For so long, the concept of juggling many tasks at once was a resume-worthy skill. In a way, the more balls you could keep in the air without seemingly faltering, the more adept you appeared to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amid the pandemic, numerous horror stories circulated about bosses watching their employees’ every move through constant Zoom ...

With the type of fast-paced, competitive and highly digitized ecosystem we live in, it’s painstakingly clear that a lot of people have been plagued by this unshakeable sense of mindlessness. This ...

If you’re a connoisseur of productivity methods–and even if you aren’t–you’ve likely heard about “monotasking,” the alternative to multitasking in which the name of the game is to stop juggling ...

This story originally appeared on LearnVest as "Is Multitasking Killing Your Productivity? Try Monotasking Instead." If you’re hunkering down at work to wrap up projects before the holiday break, ...

Distraction is so infused into our daily lives that much of the time we hardly even notice ourselves succumbing to it. How often do you find yourself mindlessly thumbing away at your phone, with no ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Is multitasking finally getting the reputation it deserves? Multitasking, that ...

In a world full of Google alerts and iCal reminders, why do we forget so much? In short: we’ve got too many tabs open to knuckle down and give one task our full attention. And that’s where monotasking ...

I burned the top of my hand on the oven rack this week when pulling out a baked potato while looking at a text from my mother. The burn looks like South Carolina and it isn’t the first time I’ve ...