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Healthy employees increase business productivity

Published on March 25, 2009 in Misc and Productivity. 1 Comment Tags: employee productivity, healthy employee.

Human resource is a precious resource, that why employee?s health is the primary business issue for every employer. This is a clear thing and most of employers recognize the importance of health and wellness and the impact on business productivity and profitability. With all these, there are only a few employers that currently developed a formalized health and productivity strategy.

According to a Hewitt?s survey which collected information about the health and productivity actions organizations are taking or are interested in taking, only 23% of companies have at this time a formal health and productivity strategy while 18% do not anticipate developing one.

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Internet censorship and employee productivity

Published on March 1, 2009 in Internet Filtering, Misc and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: employee productivity, Internet censorship.

I bet there are not few cases when you have tried to access a website from your work computer and you simply couldn?t ? and not because of Internet connection problems. Further more, I bet you have also received intimidating messages intended to stop you from trying this anymore.
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Corporations that restrict employee Internet access usually do so for a few reasons. Let?s think a little about Internet censorship from the corporate standpoint.

The most common reason claimed by managers from such companies is to increase employee productivity. By restricting the access to some ?unwanted? websites in the company, the managers are assured that their employees are not wasting time online and the only thing they are using the computer is for work related activities (research and communication). Continue reading ‘Internet censorship and employee productivity’

Bigger Computer Monitors = More Productivity ?

Published on January 14, 2009 in Misc. 0 Comments Tags: 24 inch monitor, bigger computers monitor, employee productivity, more productive, reseach, study.

As the title said, employees? using bigger computers monitor are more productive. Even it?s hard to believe and the correlation between those two might look fade, a recent study revealed the opposite: there is definitely a connection between computer’s monitor size and employee productivity.?? Business Graph v7

?Researchers at the University of Utah tested how quickly people performed tasks like editing a document and copying numbers between spreadsheets while using different computer configurations: one with an 18-inch monitor, one with a 24-inch monitor and with two 20-inch monitors.? (source).???

The people involved in this research were using different size monitors and the amazing fact was that peoples working with a 24-inch monitors finished their tasks 52% faster that the ones using 18-inch monitors. Regarding the ones using 20-inch monitors they were with 44% faster than those with the 18-inch ones. At the end of the study they concluded that someone using a larger monitor could save 2.5 hours/day. Of course this is possible only if that person is working non-stop eight hours, fact that rarely happens.

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