Point #7 has been obsolete for almost a decade
To say that the inability to multitask means one is not cut out for IT is to say that continuous partial attention is somehow productive. It is not. It is perhaps one of the primary causes of lost productivity, poor quality, and higher costs.
Multitasking was a buzzword a decade ago, but since then research has shown that multitasking is a drain on the economy and significantly reduces productivity. Researchers at UC Irvine in the mid-2000's found that interruptions caused by multitasking required an average of 25 minutes to recover from these interruptions and be able to resume the interrupted task.
Multitasking with one interruption per hour, say, means 35 minutes of work can be done in an hour. The researchers calculated that multitasking drains the U.S. economy of $650B per year. No wonder executives are alarmed -- multitasking is poor time management.
This One's Even More Alarming--
In 2005 a research study funded by Hewlett-Packard and conducted by the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London found that, ???Workers distracted by e-mail and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers.???
Point #7 has been obsolete for a decade, as more and more executives are seeing the toll it takes -- in lost productivity, excessive costs, and poor quality of the "finished" product. Movement is not progress.
