Multitasking & Negative Impact: 25% Less Sales, 20% Less Performance {Trend! Study}

The much-discussed topic of multitasking has recently been scientifically examined. The study shows: where on several projects and Tasks If you work at the same time, 25% of the turnover and 20% of the productivity are lost.

Everyday life in companies: tasks are rarely completed without interruption

Everyone knows that: Few interruptions and disruptions enable efficient and error-free work. If it just could be that easy. The Everyday life in the Companys shows something else:

In the study with just under 500 participants, the company Vistem shared with Dr. Ayelt Komus, Professor for Organization and business informatics at the University Koblenz, only 10% of those surveyed stated that they could work continuously on a task until it was completed. For the majority of 90%, even multiple disruptions are the norm.

Man is not a computer

The books on the subject (advertising)

Modern technologies enable round-the-clock, 7-day-a-week one Communication on all channels. More and more information is flooding in on us - and we actually no longer know how to get it sortieren and classify them in order to be able to find them again if the worst comes to the worst.

This can be negative on the amount of work, the result and possibly the psychological one Health of the employee. Specifically, the participants surveyed suffer from the following aspects:

• Control as many processes as possible at the same time.
• Perform an ever-increasing number of tasks.
• Increase speed more and more.

Neither value estimation nor value added

Our study shows that the resulting multitasking is a dead end - both for every individual concerned as well as for companies from a business perspective.

Esteem looks different According to the study, things don't look much better when it comes to added value: more than 60 percent of those surveyed state that a significant part of the effort (>20%) is not used to add value.

The study in detail

Discounts for your success (advertising)!

Interviewed for the study "Multitasking in project management - Status Quo and Potentials" were participants from 20 Industries, including around 50% from companies with up to 500 employees and 50% with between 1.000 and 10.000 employees.

7% of the interviewees are members of the executive board, 9% are chief department heads / directors, 24% department head or comparable. 35% function as group or team leader, 13% as agent. 12% are not included in the above categories and therefore can not be assigned. Here are a few summary results:

• 25% of the participants with a high proportion of multitasking rate the success of their company as worse on average: potential for improving the project throughput over 25%.
• Fast 70% of respondents are of the opinion that at least 30% of the project duration can be saved.
• Only 2% of respondents do not work in parallel on several tasks.
• At almost 80%, there is a considerable number of specialists who can not be represented.
• Fast 70% of group leaders have to deal with constantly changing priorities.
• In just under 70% of cases, management support has to be maintained or the project is delayed.
• More than 75% of projects start inadequately prepared and thus cause a lot of additional work.
• Where several projects and tasks are being worked on at the same time, 20% capacity is squandered, as 20% performance in companies is lost.
• This means that the company could make 25% more sales with the same resources.

Significant savings potential

In summary, the study has shown: In companies in which the indicators for multitasking were particularly pronounced, a possible savings potential was also rated as particularly high.

According to the study, in order to leverage this potential, both a high degree of maturity in project management and in agile Methods necessary. Only local or partial introduction is largely ineffective. The best results are achieved with a hybrid of critical chain project management and agile methods.

Free quick test shows your own multitasking score

For anyone who wants to compare themselves with the participants in the study, there is a quick test that provides information on how strong multitasking is in your own company or environment and how much potential is wasted as a result. Nine Ask from the everyday work life will be answered anonymously and as spontaneously as possible.

The answers are given points from 0 “heavenly state” to 10 “here there is maximum negative multitasking” and form the negative multitasking score.

Top books on the subject

Read text as PDF

Acquire this text as a PDF (only for own use without passing it on according to Terms and conditions): Please send us one after purchase eMail with the desired title supportberufebilder.de, we will then send the PDF to you immediately. You can also purchase text series.

4,99€Buy

Advice on success, goal achievement or marketing

Do you have questions about careers, Recruiting, personal development or increasing reach? Our AIAdviser helps you for 5 euros a month – free for book buyers. We offer special ones for other topics IT services

5,00€ / per month   Book

Book eCourse on Demand

Up to 30 lessons with 4 learning tasks each + final lesson as a PDF download. Please send us one after purchase eMail with the desired title supportberufebilder.de. Alternatively, we would be happy to put your course together for you or offer you a personal, regular one eMail-Course - all further information!

29,99€Buy

Skate eBook as desired

If our store does not offer you your desired topic: We will be happy to put together a book according to your wishes and deliver it in a format of yours Choice. Please sign us after purchase supportberufebilder.de

79,99€Buy