Productivity

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Being at work can take up a huge amount of your life (think around 92,120 hours over a lifetime!), so it’s important to be happy while you’re there. Cultivating an environment that makes you cheerful and positive can dramatically increase your motivation and productivity.

by Kevin Loria, Business Insider, Jul 26, 2017 If you grind away hour after hour working at a desk, you may not feel like you have much in common with elite athletes. But if you want to improve at your job or any activity you do — from triathlon-racing to theoretical mathematics to working productively…

INQUIRER.net, Jul 20, 2017 Apart from declining birthrates, one of Japan’s current concerns are the working conditions of its populace. A Japanese expert says that companies need to start considering their employees’ happiness if they want to keep doing business in the future.

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by Lisa Lai, Jun 27, 2017 Motivating employees seems like it should be easy. And it is — in theory. But while the concept of motivation may be straightforward, motivating employees in real-life situations is far more challenging. As leaders, we’re asked to understand what motivates each individual on our team and manage them accordingly.…

by Carolyn O’Hara, Apr 21, 2017 Do you work with someone who isn’t a team player? Maybe they’re overly focused on completing and promoting their own work. Or they don’t chip in when everyone else is scrambling to meet a deadline or pulling a presentation together. This isn’t simply frustrating; it can affect your entire…

goo.gl/hrgcVKcontent_copyCopy short URL (Reporting by David Lawder; Editing by Lisa Shumaker) Living standards around the world could fall unless governments invest more in research and education that can help revive weak productivity growth, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde warned on Monday.

Given the structure of our social safety net, automation tends to increase poverty and inequality rather than unemployment By Ryan Avent, http://evonomics.com/automation-robust-social-safety-net-increases-productivity/ People are worried about robots taking jobs. Driverless cars are around the corner. Restaurants and shops increasingly carry the option to order by touchscreen. Google’s clever algorithms provide instant translations that are remarkably…

by Nina Bhatia and John Drew, June 2006 Governments at all levels must deliver more for less. The principles of lean manufacturing offer surprisingly apt solutions. Governments around the world want to deliver better education, better health care, better pensions, and better transportation services. They know that impatient electorates expect to see change, and fast.…

Want to attain productivity nirvana? Then you need a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort, according to Paul J. Meyer. Here are 17 smart habits to adopt that will help you be your most productive self every day.

by David Lavenda, Feb 10, 2017 Productivity is all about efficiency—doing more, faster and with less. And with increasing demands from today’s anytime, anywhere workplace, it is has never been more important. To get the most out of your day, you need to focus on these three segments of your life:

Written by Toshinobu Kasai, Managing Director and Country Head, JLL, 8 November 2016 By 2030, according to UN data, one-fifth of us will be over the age of 60. As the labour pool shrinks, the stress of overtime work is affecting many employees, both in the developed and developing world, leading to a deterioration of…

https://medium.com/marketing-and-entrepreneurship/8-signs-an-employee-is-exceptional-which-never-appear-on-performance-evaluations-297cc58fa350#.iawzc647f We can all spot a great employee: she’s dependable, proactive, hardworking, a great leader, and a great follower. She brings a wide variety of easily defined — but hard to find — skills to the table. Some employees, though, are exceptional. They have skills and qualities that aren’t evaluated on performance appraisals but make a huge impact on…

by Elena Vaccarino, 19 October 2016, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/codetermination-boosting-cooperation-between-management-and-employees?utm_content=buffercc5aa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Codetermination or “Mitbestimmung” – the German term for worker participation in a company’s decision making – has recently attracted attention as UK Prime Minister Theresa May and US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promised to strengthen workers’ rights and interests. The latter has called for rewriting “the rules so…

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by Stéphanie Thomson, Editor, World Economic Forum, 4 October 2016 Google regularly appears towards the top of the “best places to work” lists, and with good reason. The company perks are legendary: free meals and snacks, dog-friendly offices, pods for taking a nap, generous vacation and parental leave, and highly competitive salaries.

By Paul Morton, 13 September 2016 People assume that time is a straight progression of cause to effect but actually from a non-liner, non subjective viewpoint it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff. – The 10th Doctor (Doctor Who) As a business owner, do you find that you never have…

Vernise L. Tantuco, August 31, 2016, Rappler MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos working in the government are the happiest, according to Jobstreet, who released the results of their 2016 Happiness Index on Wednesday, August 31.

Before leaving work each day, employees at Ubiquity Retirement + Savings press a button in the lobby. They’re not punching out—not in the traditional sense, anyway. They’re actually registering their emotions. They have five buttons to choose from: a smiley face if they felt happy at work that day, a frowny face if they felt…

Collaboration is taking over the workplace. As business becomes increasingly global and cross-functional, silos are breaking down, connectivity is increasing, and teamwork is seen as a key to organizational success. According to data we have collected over the past two decades, the time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50%…

Does intensive internal training of employees lead to higher profits? In knowledge-based industries where the main asset is skilled professionals such as software engineers, the answer is yes, according to the research paper “Strategy, Human Capital Investments, Business Domain Capabilities, and Performance: A Study in the Global Software Services Industry,” by Joydeep Chatterjee, senior fellow…

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Genius, as Thomas A. Edison famously declared, may be 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. But building a company employees truly love reverses the equation: it’s almost all inspiration, and sweat has only a little to do with it. This is the unexpected conclusion of new research from Bain & Company, conducted in conjunction with the…

One of the top reasons employees leave a company is lack of recognition, according to a study from Accenture. Yet employees still feel under appreciated. Whether bosses simply lack the time necessary to reward employees or they simply have no idea what combination of words their employees want, lack of recognition is a problem.

Everyone wants to know how to be more productive at work and life. Psychologists have even theorized that one of the leading causes of anxiety and depression is that a person is not reaching their full potential quick enough.

FILIPINO employees, in flexible and highly digitized workplaces, are among the most avid users of productivity tools in Asia Pacific, according to Microsoft Corp.

MANILA, Philippines – Microsoft has unveiled an Asia Pacific wide study that shows enterprises are lagging behind their employees’ expectations to be more productive, collaborative and innovative in a mobile-first, cloud-first world. The Study, conducted together with a global consultancy firm Organisation Solutions, also unveils the New World of Work Index comparing how workers perceive…

Are you feeling drained? Do you get tired easily? Are you getting irritated by everything and anything at work? You may need some time off.

Business problems today are too big for any one person to solve. Agile teams are much more effective at solving problems than are lone geniuses. So why do we still reward the smartest people in the room more so than those who excel at working with others? You know who I’m talking about: the people…