The Problems of Multitasking
The *New York Times* recently featured an [article](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/business/25multi.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin) compiling the results of several new studies looking at distractions and multitasking.
The following confirms the necessity of stopping the distractions:
>In a recent study, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports or computer code, after responding […]