Peek through the windows of most tech companies and you’ll likely see hordes of multitasking millennials. Conventional wisdom has been that if you hire a bunch of millennials and set them to ...

Multitasking is usually looked at as a desirable trait in an employee; no manager wants to hire someone who’s going to become overwhelmed as soon as the phone rings while they’re writing an email.

I’m a full-time freelancer, which means I spend my days writing articles from my house. But once upon a time, I commuted to an office every day where I was bombarded with meetings, assignments, Slack ...

We live in a world filled with distractions. Throughout the workday, 79% of workers report feeling distracted. Employees lose an estimated 720 hours a year because of workplace distractions. As a ...

Rachel Feintzeig’s “Lies We Tell Ourselves About Multitasking” (Personal Journal, May 8) makes me wonder about my profession. I was a simultaneous interpreter at the United Nations for 55 years. The ...

"You had one job!" is the punchline on a popular Internet meme involving organizational screw-ups. Now critics are saying something similar about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in ...