Polychronicity

The word "polychronicity" is a term that describes people who prefer to work on multiple activities at the same time. Examples of polychronic behaviors include: cooking food while watching television, browsing the internet while driving a car, and talking on the phone while sitting in meetings. Polychronicity is in contrast to those who prefer monochronicity (doing one thing at a time). The polychronic-monochronic concept was first developed by Edward T. Hall in 1959 in his anthropological studies of time use in different cultures.