GLOSSARY – MULTITASKING

Currently, it can be very useful for enterprises to recruit multitasking persons, and this means a double benefit for both, these in their search for workers with this profile as for those who have the ability to perform multiple tasks quickly and efficiently.

This term is derived from multitask, that comes from the technological environment but applied to the people multitasking which is an apparent human ability to perform more than one task or activity, over a short period with efficacy. An example of multitasking is taking phone calls while typing an email and reading a book.

When you get to work effectively by completing various tasks, the multitasking brings advantages such as the following:

• Save time: Be multitasking allows us to be faster and efficient to do our work.
• Increase productivity: the multitasking well executed it allows us to take significant volumes of work thanks to a increased performance.
• Assume more responsibilities: to be a multitasking effectively makes it easier for us to assume more responsibilities.
• Quality work in the chaotic environment: a multitasking will help not to succumb to the constant distractions.
• Overcome the beginnings of a company: the multitasking works well in difficult situations.

Disadvantages:

• Lesser yield and quality in the work: when they are not focus in a single task by performing many at the same time, multitasking is often sacrificed quality for quantity.
• Stress: most of the time are saturated in different tasks and use to fail to reach the results they expect.
• Bad memory: the multitasking can suffer damage to his memory or health, in addition to a low quality in the work.

In conclusion, the multitasking in some cases can result in a waste of time due to the change of human context and, apparently, cause more errors by the lack of attention. However, if one is an expert in one of the tasks at hand, then it is possible to perform these tasks. In the work environment the benefits of multitasking are undeniable, but at the same time, we have to bear in mind what to do many tasks must be compatible with search a minimum balance. In fact, the ends can harm us, as necessary as it is best is to have hours of rest to take care of our health and productivity.