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How multitasking could be stressing you out

You’re furiously typing away on your term paper, and then the next thing you see in the corner of your screen is an email notification. You can’t help but check it.

Minutes later, you get a text from your project partner asking about the progress on your presentation, and because you want to be a responsive collaborator, you immediately respond with an update.

This multitasking scenario might seem familiar to all of us. It seems harmless; after all, you’re not exactly watching cat videos on Youtube. But just how detrimental are these work-related interruptions?

Well for one thing, they’re making you more stressed.

According to a study by Gloria Mark, professor of informatics at UC Irvine, people compensate for task-related and non-task-related interruptions by working faster, but in doing so, they create more stress.

Marks says that emails are an especially huge culprit in the added disruptions.

She says that people check on average 77 times a day in the work place (in an 8 hour workday, that’s nearly once every 6 minutes). And in her soon-to-be published paper, she found that the longer people spent on their email, the higher their stress levels and the lower their self-assessed productivity (after controlling for baseline stress and job characteristics.)

Another interesting bit is that your multitasking could also be the reason why you can’t stop distracting yourself with endless cat videos.