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 ...
Companies still romanticize the idea of multitasking. Phrases like “jack of all trades,” “juggling act” and “Renaissance man” all imply that the ability to multitask is something to be relished or ...
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 ...