It’s easy to get distracted in the office. With emails, instant messages, cloud-based collaboration, noisy fax machines and chatty colleagues, finding the line between sanity and productivity can feel like walking a tightrope. In one survey, 70 percent of workers said they feel distracted when on the job. And 16 percent admitted to…
Your home influences your productivity more than you think
Working from home is a very popular modern phenomenon. People lean towards the freedom and this desired feeling of independence from the office cubicles. For too many years people didn’t have any alternative to the usual office work and had to follow the dress code, come to work at 9 AM and leave around 6…
Tomatoes and Productivity
What does a tomato have to do with your productivity? Well, there’s a popular time management and productivity system named after the Italian word for tomato. It’s called the Pomodoro Technique and it aims to prevent procrastination and maximize productivity. Francesco Cirillo created the technique in the 1980s and named it after a tomato-shaped kitchen timer…
How to Actually Manage Your Time…
People make intricate plans for diets, businesses, or world travel and, well, none of it happens. It’s a pleasant fantasy. If you want results instead of fantasies, the first step is to start executing. According to management guru Peter Drucker, execution starts by mastering your time. In this Better Humans post, Drucker’s time management method is…
Dealing With Employee Stress
Employee stress is a problem. For every employee. At every company. Stress naturally occurs in the workplace. When left unchecked, it can wreak havoc on employee health and productivity. In fact, stress has been associated with physical problems like a weakened immune system, stomach aches, high blood pressure, hair loss and headaches….
The Keys to a Productive Workday
As we blogged about in “The Perfect Amount of Time to Work Each Day,” the 8-hour workday is not necessarily completed with 8-hours of actual work. With distractions and low-energy times, we can all be guilty of wasting big blocks of our working hours. As Inc. reports, the average U.S. worker spends just 39…
10 Awesome Productivity Tips
At OfficeTime, we focus a lot on helping our customers become more productive by tracking and analyzing their time. We came across this article in Entrepreneur with 50 great productivity tips. To respect your time, we thought we’d share 10, but please feel free to follow the link to read the rest when you have…
Making the Most of Your Time…
OfficeTime users are very focused on smart time management. We know you are making the most of your minutes, which is why you know tracking your time is vital. One area that may get overlooked when we consider “time killers” in the workplace is the culture that we as business owners instill in our businesses….
The Perfect Amount of Time to Work Each Day
The eight-hour workday was created during the industrial revolution in an effort to cut down on the number of hours of manual labor that workers were forced to endure on the factory floor. In the process of measuring people’s activity, they stumbled upon a fascinating finding: The length of the workday didn’t matter much; what mattered was…
A List of Distractions
In our recently released list of the year’s Top Time Killers, we drew attention to the distractions that get between so many of us and an otherwise productive workday. Knowing what impedes us from being productive is vital to being able to better manage our time and get things done. Along comes this post…