•	Assigning the next task only after the previous one has been completed.

•	Alternatively, workers can be prescribed a sequential schedule rather than choosing their own.

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It may be difficult for a worker to handle multiple tasks at the same time.

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• Work schedules are one of the essential factors affecting productivity

• In comparison to sequential execution, multitasking significantly decreases performance.

• Subjects who could choose the amount and timing of their switches freely did only marginally better than those forced to switch at unanticipated points in time. They perform significantly worse than those working under the exogenously imposed sequential schedule.


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Buser, T., & Peter, N. (2012). Multitasking. Experimental Economics : A Journal of the Economic Science Association, 15(4), 641-655.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-012-9318-8

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