Context switching is a bigger time waster than the actual work

One thing I didn’t expect while trying to improve my workflow: The actual tasks aren’t what takes most of the time. It’s all the context switching around them. Things like: - jumping between tools just to complete one small step - copying data from one place to another - stopping what you’re doing to handle something repetitive - switching back and figuring out where you left off Individually it’s nothing. But over a day it adds up to constant interruptions. And it’s weirdly more draining than the work itself. I started paying attention to that instead of just the tasks, and reducing those switches made a bigger difference than trying to “optimize” the work itself. Curious if others notice the same thing or if it’s just me submitted by /u/huncho-mohammed [link] [留言]