Human multitasking
Subject in Social Sciences
Human multitasking has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Sahar YousefCognitive neuroscientist at UC Berkeley and founder of the Becoming Superhuman Lab, specializing in productivity and cognitive neuroplasticity
Yousef says the average knowledge worker now wastes over two hours a day bouncing between screens and tasks.
“over two hours a day is the estimated average now for the average knowledge worker just bouncing between screens and different tasks”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar Yousef (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 2:05:42
Steven BartlettBritish entrepreneur and host of The Diary Of A CEO podcast
Bartlett concludes from the exercise that switching between two task types could cost him around 60% of his productivity.
“So on a daily basis, theoretically, I'm losing potentially 60% of my productivity, theoretically, just by switching between two different types of tasks at once”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett: Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar Yousef (Oct 15, 2026) · Listen from 2:03:55
Podcasts
- The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 1 episode
Episodes
Phone Addiction Scientist: Doing This Gives You An Hour Back Every Day! | Dr Sahar YousefThe Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Oct 15, 2026 · 2 h 14 min
Steven Bartlett and neuroscientist Sahar Yousef discuss phone addiction, tech design that hijacks attention, focus sprints, chronotypes, multitasking costs, and AI's threat to independent thinking.