Switching between tasks can add a lot of time to finishing tasks.
Given two tasks, with a context switching time of 5 minutes. If you switch between the tasks 10 times, you've almost wasted an hour of time.
Over the course of a long task or project, you could be losing large amounts of time.
The key takeaway: don't let people work on more than one thing at a time.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/02/12/human-task-switches-considered-harmful/
Keywords: multitasking, multi-tasking
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