Believe it or not, there are three easy steps you can do at the end of your workday to make make yourself more productive. All it takes is to take 20 minutes to prepare. Here’s what you’ll do: 1) Arrange for the next day Place everything you need for the next place in the place you’ll…
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There are countless studies proving that office lighting and color choice have a great effect on employees’ productivity. In the movie Joe vs. the Volcano, the only light Joe had in his dreary basement office was a tropical lamp that cast revolving images of beaches, coconut-heavy palms and dancing Hawaiian girls on the windowless, concrete…
Staying productive at work for 8 straight hours is tough. Your focus wanders throughout the day, making it easy to get distracted and to lose valuable productivity. There are some things you can do on your own to help keep your focus on track (make lists, organize your desk, but the actual design of a…
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The average size of a company using time tracking is 18 people. However, there are companies with 100 or 200 employees successfully using DeskTime (the productivity and time tracking software), the largest coming in at 430 employees. Working in the time tracking sphere, we’re often confronted with the question “well, who uses time tracking software…
To managers it’s obvious – time is money. So, it’s important to make the most of the work hours, and that’s probably the reason why you use time tracking to keep up with your employees. And you’re not alone. A new study found that 80% of major companies in the USA monitor their employees’ use…
The city breathes a sigh of relief as the snow pulls back, the sun shines longer, and layers of winter clothes begin to shed. That’s right, spring is back, the birds are singing, and people are just itching to get their share of vitamin D (that’s rays of sun, y’all!) Though we love the spring,…
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The importance of organization and the impact of order, or the lack thereof, on your workday productivity is not a new concept. Similar to an accident halting the flow of traffic and slowing down everything in its wake, when things are not in order in your workspace, you can lose hours of your life just…
We’ve all been there – the feeling that you’re drowning under a pile of only growing work. As the feeling overwhelms you, you think, how on earth am I going to deal with this? This is something I’ve been dealing with recently, and in stead of simply tossing up my hands and saying it’s impossible,…
Guest Blogger Graham Allcott, author of “How to be a Productivity Ninja”, discusses why attention, not time, is the key to ninja-level productivity. Time management used to be so simple: spend the first hour of the day sorting out the post and incoming paperwork, then get on to the high priority tasks. Spend the…
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