Chronos wrote:
Multi-tasking..task switching. Admittedly I'm horrible at it. However I'm excellent at dedicated, time consuming tasks, and I am quite good at trial and error and creative solution problem solving. I really think if the authors got the impression that people with AS are generally bad at such things, it's likely because of misinterpretation or misunderstanding on their part of how the mind of someone with AS is working.
Hmm.....both Marx and Adam Smith said that the division of labour (i.e. each individual performing one task, the very opposite of multi-tasking) has colossal benefits for production efficiency. I can't see how it could be otherwise.
So why do so many employers push hard to get people multi-tasking? Could it be that they can't provide a steady stream of identical work because of changing market conditions? In the old days they'd just chuck the workers out during such times, but now they tend to have to keep them on for a while.......result is they're still paying their wages but don't have enough of the single task to keep them fully productive, so they try to devolve the responsibility (of finding work) onto the employees, telling them to fill in their idle moments with whatever odd jobs happen to come up. It's inefficient, but they get more out of the workforce than they would if they just let them rest until their proper work was ready to do.
29 Nov 2010, 7:48 pm
