When I was a student, I actually liked the clock shifting thing, known as daylight saving time (DST) or summer time. For me that was a brilliant excuse for skipping morning lectures, since ”oh, I forgot to shift my clock” together with an I’m-so-sorry face worked every time! Today, there are two kinds of people…
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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….
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…
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January is halfway through, which means that 2015 is rapidly taking off. But while we still remember 2014, let’s look back at the most read DeskTime blog posts that helped us get through it. Last year here at the DeskTime blog we gave tips, gathered ideas, solved problems; we experimented with and introduced new app…
Listening to music at work is still an individual thing – one can find it helpful, while others, disturbing. Yet, various studies claim that it’s able to boost overall workplace performance. In a survey by Spotify, respondents admitted that music helps them do more because it creates a relaxing state, which makes them less nervous…
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If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve already had at least one cup of coffee so far today – according to statistics about adults, at least. One study discovered that 83% of American adults drink at least one cup of coffee in the morning. While most people drink at least three! Although many don’t realize…
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Well, I tried, here are the results. A while back I came across research done by the University of Chicago. They found that drinking two beers helped accomplish creative tasks. Their reasoning was that it broke down barriers of critical thinking and helped them think outside the box to reach more solutions to the problem solving…
Let me start with the well-known truth: Employees who are motivated, are also happy, more productive and more successful than their unmotivated colleagues. Motivation is the willingness to do something, so the relationship between motivation and productivity is clear and direct. In the meantime, when it comes to motivating the team, it seems that employers…
According to DeskTime, social media, and especially Facebook, is on the top of the most-used unproductive apps in 2014. Together, time spent on social networks accounts for about half of all of the unproductive time spent at work. Salary.com did a survey to find out what employees themselves consider their top time wasters at work,…
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