Real estate agents who spend time online Facebooking, Tweeting, searching for property, preparing market analysis and watching a funny YouTube video all at the same time may be surprised to find that according to the survey; “people who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to complete one task at a time…”

Ours is a fast paced business that requires us to have a handle on many different tasks during the course of the day.  Perhaps as the study suggests, we would be better off if we handled these tasks one at a time, giving them our complete attention.