It is common for employees today to spend a large portion of their day doing non-work related stuff on the web. They check their personal email and social networking accounts, set up instant messenger accounts for chatting with friends and associates and browse around the web reading the latest headlines or their favorite blogs. Although it’s expected that some time is going to be lost to these activities throughout the day, smart employers will work to minimize the amount of time that employees are wasting on personal Internet use. This should be done through setting up a system that deters such activity and yet doesn’t create resentment among employees.
Causing such resentment is the biggest danger that employers will run in to when trying to deter employees from using the Internet for personal use during working hours. No employee wants to be treated like a child who is told what to do and when to do it. The reality of the working environment is that the boss is doing exactly that; telling the employee what he or she is allowed to do. However, this can be done in such a way that the employee doesn’t feel Continue reading ‘How to Deter Employees From Personal Internet Use At Work’
Noise is not just a problem in factories, vehicles or open plan office environments but even in companies that have a well defined organizational culture. Of course for the last category I’m not referring at the sound of machines or different technology systems but of your college’s activities and habits. Sometimes, if you are under time pressure and have an urgent project to finish even the crunch of an apple can signify the “death of your productivity”. No, I’m not joking and it’s a fact tested on my on skin. I have moments when the sound of keyboard is getting me nuts. These little things are productivity killers and are in the same category with distractions factors.
Employers with companies of all sizes are trying to find ways to increase the productivity of their employees. Recent studies indicate that there are some interesting ways to approach this problem that most businesses haven’t even been considering. Although employers are doing many different things to increase productivity in the office, most of them aren’t paying attention to employee health issues and concerns about mobility in the business. Combined with more traditional methods of improving employee performance, attention to these two key areas could significantly improve the productivity of the entire nation’s work force.
Do you want to be more productive? Are you afraid that taking the time to figure out how to be more productive will take too much time away from your already-busy schedule? Relax. You can increase your productivity in just a single work week if you make a commitment to tackling the issue head on. Just follow this 5 Day Plan:
Step into any office or place of business and spend some time eavesdropping on the conversations there. You will discover that the only thing that anyone wants to talk about is the recession. People are in constant discussion about what the recession means for them, for the places where they work and for the financial lives of everyone that they know. Is this ongoing conversation taking away from employee productivity? Perhaps to some extent we’re seeing a decrease in productivity because people are talking about the recession but for the most part the recession seems to be motivating employees to work more productively at their jobs.
Are you the type of person who starts off every day by making a To Do list? There is certainly something satisfying about writing out that list and then checking off each item as it gets done. It makes you feel as though you’re accomplishing things. Unfortunately, the truth of the matter is that you’re probably wasting a lot of time creating and checking off that To Do list. It’s smarter to find productive ways to replace the To Do list so that you still get everything done without wasting all of that time writing out your lists.
People who have a drive to be productive often end up sabotaging themselves in their efforts to achieve this very goal. That is because most people believe that being productive means working as much as possible all of the time. Although part of productivity is being prolific in whatever you do, part of it is also being at the top of your game. You can’t be totally on the ball if you’re exhausted or overworked. That’s why those people who are the most productive in their lives and in their work are the people who have learned the difficult task of balancing a busy working life with the ability to take time for themselves on a regular basis.
Anyone who has worked from home knows that the situation is both a blessing and a curse in terms of your productivity. On the one hand, you maximize productivity because you can work on the schedule that suits you best while eliminating commute time and the need to leave the office when something comes up at home. On the other hand, you can easily be distracted by house chores and family members and the simple desire to linger in bed so no one is making sure that you get into the office on time. Most people would prefer to work from home if they could make it work but these negative aspects make it impossible for the situation to work out long term for a lot of folks. To realize the dream of working from home either full-time or part-time, you simply need to put some things into place that will allow you to maximize your productivity in the home office.
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