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…
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…
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…
Six Scientifically Supported Ways to Crush Procrastination
Procrastination is something that everyone deals with. It’s hard to place too much blame on ourselves though, as the internet offers an unlimited amount of alternatives to doing our work. Since that’s the case, this Lifehacker article offers 6 ways to combat procrastination. 1) Pre-commit to the dreaded task – a great tip for…
3 Tech-Savvy Google-Chrome Extensions that Evolve the User Experience
Google-Chrome Extensions are all about customizing the way by which we interface on the WWW. Whether keeping you on the edge of what’s happening, or allowing you to retrieve information from a picture, these tools are designed for rendering your needs as top-priority. If you’ve never installed a Google-Chrome Extension, now is the perfect time to give it a shot—stay steadfast.
When You Can’t Beat Your To-Do List…
Do you frequently feel overwhelmed and you never seem to have anything accomplished? Then, you are busy but not productive. If you are not making progress on mission-critical tasks and projects, you are maybe too busy but not productive. You will never get to the bottom of your to-do list. Reality check; some things are going to not get done and some things are going to be late.
Sincere Gratitude Will Increase Work Productivity?
Gratitude is defined as an attitude in acknowledgement of a benefit that one has received or will receive. Bringing these feelings into the workplace can increase productivity, engagement, moral, and make employees feel a closer connection to those they work with, which increases ability to work collaboratively.