This week is dedicated to optimizing your workplace for productivity, so it's only appropriate that I share some stats on wasting time at work. Employees admit to wasting 3 hours in a typical 8-hour workday -- time that could be spent exercising, relaxing or doing other stuff. All...
This CareerBuilder infographic examines the relationship between working from home and productivity. Some key statistics: 10 percent of Americans telecommute at least one day a week, which is up from 8 percent in 2007, and 6 percent of Americans work from home on a full-time basis. The infographic also offers...
This Rypple infographic examines what motivates employees, from incentives to company culture and managerial techniques. I've written about employee disengagement before, but this infographic puts a price on an unmotivated workforce: $300 billion in lost productivity. Before focusing on productivity in your workgroup, it's essential to...
You might think that the holidays are a time to escape work, but 68 percent of working adults will check their email on holidays like Thanksgiving, Hannukah and Christmas. Xobni also found that 79 percent of polled working adults receive email on traditional holidays, a fact that annoyed 37 percent...
Email spam costs businesses $20.5 billion a year -- that's about $1,934 per employee -- in decreased productivity, according to this VisibleGains infographic. Another shocking statistic: 18 percent of all received email is spam or graymail like alerts or unwanted newsletters. To decrease the time your...
Although I live and breathe productivity, I'm hoping that this Thanksgiving, you'll be able to let go and really embrace the second half of the Ridiculously Efficient mantra by playing hard. Enjoy your time with friends, family, food and football, recharge all weekend and return to...
