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DAVIS, Jim. Disponível em: Acesso em: 10 jan. 2010.

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Multitasking harmful to productivity

    Scientists have found that focusing on multiple

media sources, such as email, phone, the internet, and

television, all at once does not make you more efficient.

In fact, multitaskers find it harder to concentrate.

5    Researchers at Stanford University in the United

States divided a group of over 250 students into light or

heavy media multitaskers. Light multitaskers focus on

just one or two sources at a time — listening to music

while working for example. Heavy multitaskers watch

10 online videos, surf the web, talk or text on their mobiles,

and write or read, all at the same time. Lead researcher

Cliff Nass wanted to see how this would affect the way

their brains work. “You would think that people who are

multitasking with all these media at once would be great

15 at ignoring irrelevant information. However, we discovered

they are suckers for irrelevant information, so they’re

much worse than low multitaskers at ignoring the

irrelevant”, says Nass.

    Not only that, but multitaskers are worse at

20 organizing and sorting information, and worse at switching

from one task to another. The findings have left the

scientists with something of a mystery — why do people

multitask at all? They say that in an increasingly

demanding work environment, expecting staff to be

25 constantly available by email and instant message while

doing their jobs may actually mean that productivity falls.

MULTITASKING, harmful to productivity. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 2 jan. 2010. 

TEXTO:

Multitasking harmful to productivity

    Scientists have found that focusing on multiple

media sources, such as email, phone, the internet, and

television, all at once does not make you more efficient.

In fact, multitaskers find it harder to concentrate.

5    Researchers at Stanford University in the United

States divided a group of over 250 students into light or

heavy media multitaskers. Light multitaskers focus on

just one or two sources at a time — listening to music

while working for example. Heavy multitaskers watch

10 online videos, surf the web, talk or text on their mobiles,

and write or read, all at the same time. Lead researcher

Cliff Nass wanted to see how this would affect the way

their brains work. “You would think that people who are

multitasking with all these media at once would be great

15 at ignoring irrelevant information. However, we discovered

they are suckers for irrelevant information, so they’re

much worse than low multitaskers at ignoring the

irrelevant”, says Nass.

    Not only that, but multitaskers are worse at

20 organizing and sorting information, and worse at switching

from one task to another. The findings have left the

scientists with something of a mystery — why do people

multitask at all? They say that in an increasingly

demanding work environment, expecting staff to be

25 constantly available by email and instant message while

doing their jobs may actually mean that productivity falls.

MULTITASKING, harmful to productivity. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 2 jan. 2010. 

TEXTO:

Multitasking harmful to productivity

    Scientists have found that focusing on multiple

media sources, such as email, phone, the internet, and

television, all at once does not make you more efficient.

In fact, multitaskers find it harder to concentrate.

5    Researchers at Stanford University in the United

States divided a group of over 250 students into light or

heavy media multitaskers. Light multitaskers focus on

just one or two sources at a time — listening to music

while working for example. Heavy multitaskers watch

10 online videos, surf the web, talk or text on their mobiles,

and write or read, all at the same time. Lead researcher

Cliff Nass wanted to see how this would affect the way

their brains work. “You would think that people who are

multitasking with all these media at once would be great

15 at ignoring irrelevant information. However, we discovered

they are suckers for irrelevant information, so they’re

much worse than low multitaskers at ignoring the

irrelevant”, says Nass.

    Not only that, but multitaskers are worse at

20 organizing and sorting information, and worse at switching

from one task to another. The findings have left the

scientists with something of a mystery — why do people

multitask at all? They say that in an increasingly

demanding work environment, expecting staff to be

25 constantly available by email and instant message while

doing their jobs may actually mean that productivity falls.

MULTITASKING, harmful to productivity. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 2 jan. 2010. 

TEXTO:

Multitasking harmful to productivity

    Scientists have found that focusing on multiple

media sources, such as email, phone, the internet, and

television, all at once does not make you more efficient.

In fact, multitaskers find it harder to concentrate.

5    Researchers at Stanford University in the United

States divided a group of over 250 students into light or

heavy media multitaskers. Light multitaskers focus on

just one or two sources at a time — listening to music

while working for example. Heavy multitaskers watch

10 online videos, surf the web, talk or text on their mobiles,

and write or read, all at the same time. Lead researcher

Cliff Nass wanted to see how this would affect the way

their brains work. “You would think that people who are

multitasking with all these media at once would be great

15 at ignoring irrelevant information. However, we discovered

they are suckers for irrelevant information, so they’re

much worse than low multitaskers at ignoring the

irrelevant”, says Nass.

    Not only that, but multitaskers are worse at

20 organizing and sorting information, and worse at switching

from one task to another. The findings have left the

scientists with something of a mystery — why do people

multitask at all? They say that in an increasingly

demanding work environment, expecting staff to be

25 constantly available by email and instant message while

doing their jobs may actually mean that productivity falls.

MULTITASKING, harmful to productivity. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 2 jan. 2010. 

TEXTO:

Multitasking harmful to productivity

    Scientists have found that focusing on multiple

media sources, such as email, phone, the internet, and

television, all at once does not make you more efficient.

In fact, multitaskers find it harder to concentrate.

5    Researchers at Stanford University in the United

States divided a group of over 250 students into light or

heavy media multitaskers. Light multitaskers focus on

just one or two sources at a time — listening to music

while working for example. Heavy multitaskers watch

10 online videos, surf the web, talk or text on their mobiles,

and write or read, all at the same time. Lead researcher

Cliff Nass wanted to see how this would affect the way

their brains work. “You would think that people who are

multitasking with all these media at once would be great

15 at ignoring irrelevant information. However, we discovered

they are suckers for irrelevant information, so they’re

much worse than low multitaskers at ignoring the

irrelevant”, says Nass.

    Not only that, but multitaskers are worse at

20 organizing and sorting information, and worse at switching

from one task to another. The findings have left the

scientists with something of a mystery — why do people

multitask at all? They say that in an increasingly

demanding work environment, expecting staff to be

25 constantly available by email and instant message while

doing their jobs may actually mean that productivity falls.

MULTITASKING, harmful to productivity. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 2 jan. 2010.