Multitasking: pride or bad?

If you can focus on different things at the same time then multitasking is for yo. But if you can't finish a task and try to begin another then you gotta forget about the whole multitasking thing.

Multi-tasking is good and beneficial especially if it's you who benefits from it....the bad side is that employers are using this for the company's benefits and abuse the employees. In this case, multi-tasking is a tool to slavery and exploitation. Once the employer has proven that the employee is capable to perform several roles, they will not hire staff for each role and just put all the responsibility to one person. Please check this article related to this topic, copy and paste the link to your browser address bar: http://socyberty.com/work/multi-tasking-a-modern-day-slavery

I am not a fan of doing two things both at the same time (multitasking) because it scatters the focus that is much needed to accomplish the task with excellent result. Doing many things at the same time drastically reduces quality and effectiveness. This is one of the reasons why many companies are now getting rid of multitasking. Multitasking is also accident prone (driving while talking on cellular phone, etc.).

I have heard the word 'Multitasking' in a computer. That is we can do other works when another programme is running. So it is good.

People have always had to multitask. It might be more prevalent now, but even in the Middle Ages, women still had to watch the kids and cook and try not to die from plagues. And men had to do things too I assume. I don't know what, but I'm sure there was some multitasking going on there. Multitasking is necessary to be efficient. If someone can't multitask then there are a lot of jobs that they won't be able to do. (Not all of them are "modern" or anything. Journalism for instance--having to talk on the phone and write stuff down about something else and listen to your boss all at the same time. That still happened decades ago, too.) Multitasking is good for getting things done. At a certain point though it can get to be too much. Is someone can't handle it then clearly it's too much. But humans have multitasked for a long time. A lot of people are very proficient at it. It comes with the job (of being human).

maybe it is needed. It's okay to multi task if the one doing it is competent and efficient. If it overwhelms then it's clearly beyond limit and stressful, not healthy. I don't know if I am proficient or not... I hope I am. It's a matter of getting used to multi-tasking. Though getting help is better than doing it all alone.

The demands of life makes it inevitable to do multi-tasking. I learned later on that if you would want quality from your outputs, you need to focus. But I guess multi-tasking cannot be avoided. Specially, when life of your family depends on it. Even companies look for workers who can multi-task. It is only I who works full time in our family. My mother and father stays at home and they have a small retail store and a room rental business. I see that they are happy the way they live their life. Their wants are simple and they get to pass time by spending more time taking care of their grandchild with my sister. I hope to retire at an early age and do things that I would truly enjoy. My parents don't multi-task and they live an equally fruitful life. I hope someday I can do the same. The key I guess is living a simplistic life. Have a nice day!!!

Women are already multi tasking since ages. You can't just be mother, you are cook, nurse, babysitter,etc too. And if you want some time for yourself you have to do more at the same time. Women can do that. To men it's more difficult they were never trained to raise kids, cook and have eyes in the back of their head as well to babysit and be the watch out and here the storyteller or salesman come over at the same time. The only thing that did change is the way we are multitasking. We are all in a hurry now. Everything has to go fast and the worst is we are still in time need. I don't think this is something modern age demands we do it to our selves. There is no reason to pick up your cellphone if you are cooking and whiping a kids nose already or you are on the toilet. It is very seldom that a phonecall is really that urgent that it can't wait for 5 or 10 minutes. It's just in our heads that we need to do everything at the same time now. Also multitasking is not a way to do things with care, attention and in the best way. Frequently it doesn't save us time at all. Good planning will and knowing what is priority. A kind of multitasking is needed. If you can't talk and put your shoes on at the same time because you are not able to do 2 different things at the same time it's a problem. But the way many people do it nowadays causes more stress and time as a good planning would. I am great at multitasking but I don't do it whole day on. Just when I am in time need but I don't let anyone or society or a cellphone control my life.

It is all to do with expectations I suppose. I have a friend who is extremely good at it but the reason is because of how she uses her brain. Talking to her is going every which direction at once, by the way I was talking to a receptionist the other day about getting all the tasks done that need to be in before Friday and the phone rang. You will never guess who was on it. One good thing about multitasking is it makes for a more interesting day and is work proficient, if you are allowed to pass a task which is not completed on to someone else. A lot of things can get accomplished that way because as you know procrastination, is the worse tool of any because nothing gets off the drawing board, ever. Charlie.

To me, sometimes it really seems to work especially if the two tasks that Iam doing don't require alot of attention.

Multitasking is great only when you feel sure can handle everything that one is attempting to do...Sometimes one take on task that requires undivided attention and we are trying to thread it into a web of many other task...its up to the individual.. It should be a decision made by one when they the have thought the situtation through and only do the things thats manageable...thats multitasking...remember haste makes waste....