Does multitasking help us be more productive, or is it just stressing us out? Here's what experts say. (Getty Creative) The allure of multitasking is hard to ignore. Of course it sounds like a great ...

Special to Nashville Tennessean, USA TODAY NETWORK newsrooms in Tennessee In my last column I talked about “the busy signal.” To review, for anyone not around before the 1980s, the busy signal was the ...

Research shows that even brief mental blocks created by shifting between tasks can cost as much as 40% of someone’s productive time, the equivalent of dropping 10 IQ points from our cognitive ...

Last week, I asked a good friend what they had accomplished that day. She launched into a fifteen-minute monologue about attending three meetings, responding to forty-seven emails, updating five ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Multitasking often reduces productivity Focused work with strategic breaks can boost efficiency and meet deadlines Prioritizing clear ...

TRACY: I saw something the other day, and I loved it so much I had to post it online: "Stop the glorification of busy-ness!" I have been purposely trying to get rid of my busy, multitasking ways since ...

While the mindfulness movement has become quite popular over the past few years, it’s actually a term with "exotic origins" in the 19th century, according to the New York Times. It’s essentially the ...