App for enhancing Multitasking

The job market today is very competitive, and having the right skills is vital for any employee to grow professionally and climb up the corporate ladder. Multitasking is one among such important skills, and a tech startup has developed a smartphone app which will help users in developing their multitasking ability.

The leader of the app development team gave a brief insight into this new app, which is reportedly quite close to being released to the public. “It is mainly meant for two-wheeler drivers. They are often found to be practicing their multitasking skills as they go through the notifications or the numerous forwarded WhatsApp messages they receive in their groups while they are driving their two-wheeler. The app we are working on will send a notification to such multitasking motorcyclists when they are about to get into a collision.”

Elaborating further, the team leader says, “My philosophy is that the world is advancing technologically at a great pace, and it is necessary to catch up with such advancements and get over the old-fashioned practices and ways which are often wasteful in terms of time. Continuously watching the road, for me, is one such wasteful process. Some of the time wasted in keeping eyes on the road can instead be spent in more important activities like checking FB updates for whether your friends who were chilling in Wayanad at the time of the Nepal earthquakes were safe, or other important activities as per the user’s preference. Many two-wheeler drivers can be seen these days trying to perform such type of multitasking. But, it is currently not a safe practice and given the immense value of human resources, I believe that this app will add the much-needed dimension of safety to these multitasking attempts.”

When asked about the time required to react to the notification and properly control the vehicle, the team leader shared his observations on day-to-day life. “So many people who are installing new softwares manage to instantaneously read and agree to the terms and conditions. So many people are able to almost instantaneously forward a received WhatsApp message into all their groups; some go even further and show their ability to read, understand and put up a thumbs-up emoticon in the blink of an eyelid after some amazing shayari or other soul-stirring content is circulated in the WhatsApp groups. Also, there are several people who manage to buy articles on those mega sales on websites like Amazon and Flipkart, which usually get sold out moments after they start. Going by these metrics, reaction time should not be too much of a problem. When this app is installed, it will warn the users that they can expect notifications to pop up at any moment, sometimes in large numbers. This, I believe, will lead to great improvement in their alertness and attentiveness as well.”