Measure what you can, reduce distractions and enable good workplace habits
a Canmore, Alta. company that offers consulting and training to workplaces around mental health and productivity, once had a senior company leader extoll to her about the output of his team at a large, results-focused workplace.
True productivity sees people achieving workplace goals because of good time usage, says Mark Ellwood of Pace Productivity in Toronto, which helps companies improve performance. “Some say we shouldn’t care about how much time people spend doing things if they get results.
out of Toronto Metropolitan University found 70 per cent of employees surveyed said they were being electronically monitored. Those who had no information about the nature of the monitoring had much lower rates of trust in their employer.found 79 per cent of employees consider themselves more productive in a hybrid workplace.
Objective measurements can include sales quotas, new leads generated, number of reports, billable hours and the like. Ms. Belanger thinks companies should highly value efforts to improve workplace culture. “I like the idea of looking at those unmeasurables at work. Like the person who just makes you feel amazing. And not to be stereotypical, but the office mom, she should get points for what she does.”For hour-by-hour information on how employees use their time, technology can help. Mr. Trougakos is interested in the new generation of time-tracking apps.
Mr. Trougakos, meanwhile, studies recovery time, and shows that what people do the previous night affects their workplace performance.Mr. Trougakos says time use data can help companies dispense of waste plus allow individuals to understand the rhythms of their day, and schedule tasks accordingly. It’ll be different for night owls, but “75 per cent of the population have their mental peak some time in the mid-morning, so that’s when they should be doing their most critical tasks.
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