Tag Archive for Productivity

Five science-backed tips for boosting productivity in office meetings

Productivity is one business buzzword that isn’t going away anytime soon – and with figures suggesting that UK productivity is well below that of other European countries, it’s no wonder more focus is being placed on finding ways to improve productivity levels in the workplace, particularly in office meetings. We’ve all been in meetings that
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Productivity pains: Workers burdened with boring tasks

SnapLogic announces the results of its latest study into disconnected data, which uncovers that 90 per cent of employees are being burdened with boring and repetitive tasks which could be easily automated. In fact, these tasks – which include searching for data, data entry, data processing and analysis, and combining data from multiple sources –
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Let’s spend less time talking and more time thinking

Collaboration. Countless articles are written about it and by many it’s seen as the lifeblood of the modern workplace. But if everyone is busy collaborating, what happens to the other type of work we’re all required to do; the work that requires time, focus and uninterrupted concentration? ‘I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever
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Technology not improving workplace productivity, study finds

Almost 70 per cent of workers do not feel that new technology has increased their productivity, a new study from Henley Business School finds. Among those, all respondents who were at middle management level or above were of the view that tech had not increased their productivity, while 34 per cent felt that new tech had in
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