Lieber etwas weniger Arbeiten – das Ergebnis ist um so besser. Sagt jedenfalls ein Artikel auf money.cnn.com von Anne Fisher:
„The physiological effects of tiredness are well-known. You can turn a smart person into an idiot just by overworking him,“ notes Peter Capelli, a professor of management at Wharton.
Genau so wirkt sich das ständige Multitasking – hin und her springen zwischen vielen Aufgaben – negativ auf die Produktivität aus:
It’s not really news that so-called multitasking can actually make people less effective at their jobs. One detailed study five years ago by psychologists at the University of Michigan demonstrated that, because the human brain needs time to shift gears between tasks, the more switching back and forth you have to do […] the less proficiently you will tackle any of it […]
Großes Beispiel: Google…
„We want to take as much hurry and worry out of people’s lives as we can, because a relaxed state of mind unleashes creativity,“ says Stacy Sullivan, the company’s HR director. „And everybody’s on flextime here, so we don’t reward face time or working super-long hours. We just measure results.“