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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
welcome to the world of multitasking! :gsmile: |
People are not capable of multitasking. It's been a proven fact since the study that was done on receptionists ages ago. Sure - a person can have more than one task "active" at once - but unless the two tasks share some crucial and long-running sub-tasks, it always takes longer to complete everything with frequent switching than it does to finish each one separately, and the result is often more error-prone.
In other words, you'd waste less time and do better work if you just spent an entire hour of your day goofing off on the TA forums and didn't touch it for the rest of the day. Not that I'm advocating this alternative either.
No offense, but if anybody is getting promotions or big raises while spending significant amounts of company time on social forums, Facebook, or anything like that, then I shudder to think of what kind of management and coworkers that person must have. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
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not sure which receptionists this was tested on, but I effectively switch between TA and the rest of my daily tasks at work
mind you, FB/msn/myspace/youtube is blocked at my work |
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| VDub |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
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I swear to god dude...
You must make a load of money...
Cause you're getting ripped off if you don't...
If I had the smartest, most knowledgeable guy in the world working for me...I'd pay him a load of money... |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
not sure which receptionists this was tested on, but I effectively switch between TA and the rest of my daily tasks at work
mind you, FB/msn/myspace/youtube is blocked at my work |
Hah, this wasn't one study tested on a handful of receptionists, it's an entire research field that's been studied to death.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/b...332475200&en=f2
That's just one of many articles referencing a few of the many studies.
It's really just common sense - the work you have takes a fixed amount of time to do, regardless of how it's spread out, but there's also setup time, which exists in every type of work no matter how mundane. Setup time means is the time it takes to shift all of the pertinent information into or your short-term memory, which can only hold a limited amount - time to get back into the zone, so to speak. It's the constant accumulation of setup time that can completely kill productivity.
And in a vast number of cases, people thought they were more productive, or at least just as productive while "multitasking", even though the hard data clearly showed otherwise. The worst results always come from the people who are arrogant about it and think that they're just better at multitasking than others, because they take on more distractions more frequently. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
If I had the smartest, most knowledgeable guy in the world working for me...I'd pay him a load of money... |
Sarcasm isn't funny when you're mocking things that were never said nor implied. I'm hardly the first person in the world to take in this theory. |
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| malek |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Did it ever occur to some of you to, you know, work? |
its called taking a break. Some go smoke, other go pick up a coffee or treats, some others surf the net. Why not. As long as it doesn't break any company rules and that your output isn't impacted. |
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| VDub |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
Sarcasm isn't funny when you're mocking things that were never said nor implied. I'm hardly the first person in the world to take in this theory. |
lol.....
You're starting to fascinate me a little bit...
I'd love to know what your up-bringing was like...
What's your story Aaron???
Were you an only child???
What were you like at school when you were a kid???
So many questions... |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
its called taking a break. Some go smoke, other go pick up a coffee or treats, some others surf the net. Why not. As long as it doesn't break any company rules and that your output isn't impacted. |
The last condition is what I'm talking about, and the second-last is kind of the whole point - obviously it's against the rules if they are blocking it.
But for the most part I actually agree with you. If you call it taking a break, and you do it a couple of times a day for 5 or 10 minutes, that's normal. The key here is that you're actually calling it a "break". It's structured and known, as compared with checking a forum and responding at random intervals throughout the day and claiming that you can do it during actual work periods without loss of concentration or productivity.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that for many if not most people who go on TA or any other forum at work, it tends to eat up a lot more time over the course of the day than they would ordinarily set aside (or be allowed to set aside) for breaks.
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
Were you an only child??? |
I'll answer that one because it's the only one I can answer in a single sentence and not completely derail the discussion: No, I was/am not an only child, I'm the last of four. |
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| Skipper |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
The last condition is what I'm talking about, and the second-last is kind of the whole point - obviously it's against the rules if they are blocking it.
But for the most part I actually agree with you. If you call it taking a break, and you do it a couple of times a day for 5 or 10 minutes, that's normal. The key here is that you're actually calling it a "break". It's structured and known, as compared with checking a forum and responding at random intervals throughout the day and claiming that you can do it during actual work periods without loss of concentration or productivity.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that for many if not most people who go on TA or any other forum at work, it tends to eat up a lot more time over the course of the day than they would ordinarily set aside (or be allowed to set aside) for breaks.
I'll answer that one because it's the only one I can answer in a single sentence and not completely derail the discussion: No, I was/am not an only child, I'm the last of four. |
Not all of us type novels for posts either though. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Skipper
Not all of us type novels for posts either though. |
Not all of us have attention spans the size of a gnat's, either. If you'd read more than a few words of my "novel", which evidently you did not, you'd realize that this has almost nothing to do with the point I was making. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
welcome to the world of multitasking! :gsmile:
me = TA postwhore with 2 raises this year LOL |
i've probably spent more time this year on TA then past years and I am on pace for my biggest year ever. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
i've probably spent more time this year on TA then past years and I am on pace for my biggest year ever. |
^5! |
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