Superior productivity of youngsters is bunk.
"Hey, everyone, I'm in Gen Y. I can email, IM, Twitter, listen to my iPod and work at the same time." Heard that recently? Well, you're going to keep hearing it, even though it isn't true.
Recent studies apparently prove that workers in their 20s using a variety of digital tools at the same time are not any better at multi-tasking than anyone else.
The human brain can't concentrate on two things at once. So multi-tasking slows you down and increases your mistakes. Also, any interruption encourages further distractions from the task at hand.
"In a recent study at Microsoft "workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks... after responding to incoming e-mail or instant messages. They strayed off to reply to other messages or browse news, sports or entertainment Web sites."
