Since 2020 the ways that employees interact with each other and their leadership has fundamentally changed. The post-pandemic workforce also looks and thinks differently, so companies pursuing Hybrid or Return to Office strategies have to be cognizant and responsive to these changes in expectations and priorities. Worklytics specializes in compiling anonymized data points from digital collaboration tools, aggregating more...

Amid persistently high inflation, volatile market conditions, and uncertainty on consumer demand and sentiment, companies are increasingly starting to freeze hiring. Teams are quickly realizing that they need to find ways to work more efficiently with limited resources. How do organizations work to adapt to these new challenges? Here are some metrics we’re seeing companies use to gain visibility into how their teams are working and to help optimize how they work and collaborate to get more done in an increasingly constrained environment.

Focus time - or the uninterrupted time available for individual work - has become increasingly more important for remote teams. This is especially true for knowledge workers that often need an average of 4 hours of focus time per day to complete their individual work.

The Worklytics dashboard is a new state-of-the-art reporting and analytics platform that converts disparate data from all of your collaboration tools into easy-to-use reports.

Since the pandemic began, Focus Time has declined significantly for many of our clients. As we have been helping companies combine their survey data with their collaboration data, we are starting to see correlations that have never been measured before. One such correlation in the combined data we have consistently seen is the link between the focus time their employees have and how productive they feel.

Being remote or hybrid can be isolating. It’s easy to feel out of the loop and out of touch with the rest of the organization, which increases employee stress and leads to higher burnout. We are seeing one key metric that seems to be highly correlated to greater employee satisfaction: Manager 1:1s. 

In a recent study, we found that employees' sense of a positive work-life balance is highly correlated with the length of their workday. In fact, those who worked more than 10 hours per day were 2x as likely to report feeling like they don’t have a good work-life balance. This is often a tell-tale sign that employees may be at an increased risk of burning out.

With the rise of remote/hybrid work, managers and employees no longer have as many opportunities to communicate with their teams. This hasdriven many organizations to rethink their traditional surveys-driven employee listening strategies (active listening) by augmenting them with passive listening strategies. Learn more on how to adapt your listening strategies to the new reality.

We’re now 8 or 9 weeks into social distancing, depending on where you live. For many that means we’re over 2 months into the mass scale work from home experiment. Organizations everywhere are still working to understand and react to the major implications of this change. I’ve written about how we’re using data from productivity...