Why Multitasking Wastes Time and Money

Eating lunch while typing up that email. Making a phone call while driving to that next appointment.

Multitasking. We've all attempted it, in one way or another, in an attempt to save a little time and help boost our productivity -- and make a little money. With today's technology and huge amounts of information to process, attempting to accomplish two things at once in order to better balance work and pleasure is often difficult to avoid.

But while there is an automatic assumption that multitasking helps a person to be more productive, the opposite is often true. In fact, one study of professionals and office workers found that 28% of the subjects' "time was spent on what they deemed interruptions and recovery time before they returned to their main tasks." The study said this lost time cost companies roughly $650 billion a year in lost productivity. ...