Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.
Shawn AchorThe fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.
Shawn AchorAs we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.
Shawn Achor