Nobody wants to be at work during the summer. It’s hard to focus when the weather outside is beautiful and there are tons of other things you’d rather be doing (frisbee in the park, anyone?). Even science agrees – people are distracted and less productive in the summer. So if employees are easily distracted by the warm…
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Team building activities are often met with a groan. Nobody wants to spend time playing awkward games with coworkers. But team building doesn’t have to be boring. The right team building exercises can help your employees bond, which in turn boosts engagement and productivity. Companies with engaged employees are more productive, as discovered by Gallup’s…
Companies are not the only ones that can benefit from time tracking software applications. Freelancers, who work from home or do ad-hoc work in office settings, will also discover that tracking their time comes with myriad benefits. Freelancers often do not have to adhere to an official work schedule and in many cases, how much…
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Dr. Paul Kelley, an academic at the University of Oxford, believes the traditional 9-5 schedule is making everybody miserable and sleep-deprived. He maintains that instead of trying to stick to a system that isn’t natural to our bodies, we need to overhaul our schedules to revolve around our circadian rhythms. Most of Dr. Kelley’s research…
Sweden thinks so, as several companies are experimenting with 6-hour workdays. They’re reporting greater profits, happier employees, and, perhaps surprisingly, more productivity. With North Americans typically working an average of 8.7 hours a day, it’s hard not to be envious of our Scandinavian counterparts.
Every year thousands of hours are wasted at work. A study by Salary.com found that according to 26% of employees surveyed, the Internet is their number one distraction. While web is a critical business tool, its misuse in the workplace could cost businesses more than $178 billion annually in lost productivity, as calculated by Websense….
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It’s been a while since we added application groups. This function let you categorize all applications in groups, which made it easy to see what your employees had been working on. Yet not all applications can be put in the 6 categories proposed, right? Therefore, we’ve added a new function – you can now create…
This is a guest post from Christopher Austin from PeopleInsight.co.uk Several years of practice and research have been devoted to improving performance management in companies worldwide. However, the conventional understanding of the performance review process is inefficient in the eyes of employees, managers, CEOs and company owners. Studies have shown that annual reviews are not helping…
At first glance, it might seem like workplace security measures would hinder productivity. After all, security measures block access to certain websites, require the generation of complicated passwords and often necessitate training sessions for employees. But upon further examination, business owners are likely to find that security measures can actually increase productivity and improve overall…
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