All this is going to be more important going forward as workplaces become more distributed, and it may be tempting to just have a virtual meeting on one screen while either working on a different one — or just messing around on the Internet.
As I always tell students, it often happens that when looking for a lab project one ends up working on a different problem than the one their project was initially about.
Honcker got its start, Hecht said, when he was working on a different startup (interestingly, another one based on temporality but of a very different kind: Dstrux was designed to create messages for different social media platforms that would self-destruct).
At I.B.M., researchers are working on a different vision of the automotive future, called Smart Passenger.
The crucial tape recordings were made by the National Intelligence Agency while working on a different investigation.
In the second hour, the students were huddled over laptops, each working on a different set of exercises.
Each of you can be working on a different paragraph; hitting Save updates everyone's copies, more or less instantly.
The New York Times was working on a different article last month when a reporter contacted Mr. Anderson.
I don't think Cromer could have attained the genre-defying rawness and deep intimacy he achieves if he were working on a different kind of stage.
Shane was already working on a different story that day and felt "a little bit of reluctance to being suckered" by a book promotion.
In September, Dre's collaborator Dawaun Parker revealed that it has been scrapped, adding that Dre was working on a different album.
