Emotional intelligence (Day 27) - How being busy makes you unproductive (1)

Being busy has somehow become a badge of honour.

The prevailing notion is that if you aren’t super busy, you aren’t important or hard working. The truth is, busyness makes you less productive.

David Meyer from the University of Michigan published a study recently that showed that switching what you’re doing mid-task increases the time it takes you to finish both tasks by 25%. “Multitasking is going to slow you down, increasing the chances of mistakes,” Meyer said. 

“Disruptions and interruptions are a bad deal from the standpoint of our ability to process information.” 

Microsoft decided to study this phenomenon in their workers and found that it took people an average of 15 minutes to return to their important projects (such as writing reports or computer code) every time they were interrupted by e-mails, phone calls, or other messages. They didn’t spend the 15 minutes on the interrupting messages, either; the interruptions led them to stray to other activities, such as surfing the web for pleasure.


Ifeoma uzoma is an edupreneur, a success and career coach, and finally a lecturer. She is the lead consultant of Unique Consults, which offers services such as business and academic research (feasibility studies, proposals, business plans, bid, bill of quantity, academic research etc), data analysis (SPSS, GIS, EPI INFO), grantsmanship, editorial services and general consultancy.

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