Productivity

Struggling to stay productive amidst constant meetings and digital distractions? Microsoft Outlook’s Focus Time feature offers a solution by reserving uninterrupted blocks for deep, high-impact work. This guide explores how to set up and optimize Focus Time, the cognitive science behind its effectiveness, and how platforms like Worklytics can enhance it through data insights. With smart scheduling, distraction reduction, and privacy-first analytics, Worklytics helps organizations and individuals measure, protect, and maximize their Focus Time—boosting productivity, creativity, and well-being across the board.

Excessive employee tracking, intended to boost productivity, often backfires by eroding trust, lowering morale, and fostering a culture of performative work rather than meaningful contributions. Constant surveillance creates stress, discourages creativity, and shifts employees' focus from quality to appearances, leading to disengagement and even counterproductive behaviors like task inflation and faked activity. Instead of relying on punitive monitoring, organizations should prioritize trust, autonomy, and outcome-based performance, fostering a healthier, more productive workplace where employees feel empowered rather than controlled.

Employee turnover is a major concern for businesses, affecting productivity, morale, and costs. This blog explores key reasons employees quit, including lack of career growth, low compensation, toxic workplace culture, poor management, and insufficient benefits. Employees today seek flexibility, professional development, and a healthy work-life balance, making these factors essential for retention.

Employee monitoring is invasive, creepy and often ineffective. Learn how to boost productivity in your organization without sacrificing privacy or trust.

Unlock the true value of employee surveys with people analytics that turn feedback into actionable business insights and strategies.

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.

Learn how to transform employee survey insights into strategic initiatives and actions that boost efficiency and engagement for your business.

If you’re judging Manager Effectiveness based on eSat scores, you’re moving too slowly. eSat scores are lagging indicators of how it’s going. Here are 5 metrics that matter more than eSat scores if you're looking to more effectively lead your team.

When we combine work data with performance reviews, 2 key trends emerge: (1) Working longer hours does not lead to better performance scores. (2) Working intensely does. Instead of measuring your time at work, consider measuring your work intensity: amount of work done / time spent working.