By Marsha Ward
No matter what industry you work in, productivity is key to meet business goals. As a business owner, I’m well aware of this – and that’s why I know a creative workplace can play a big part in the success of an operation.
As our information processing capacity is limited, one of life’s most critical tasks is selectively responding to the stimuli that are the most relevant to our current goals. Selecting the most relevant bits of information from the constant flood is a challenge and to tackle this problem we must understand how to ignore irrelevant information.
Besides your office probably being in need of a little fun, humour has been found to be a key to success as work.
A new study has proven SMEs harnessing digital technology to support business operations are growing faster than those that are not, making it abundantly clear it is time for the latter companies to try new methods in order to supercharge services and achieve scale.
Despite the creative excuses for not turning up to work on National Sickie Day, there seems to be a serious underlying message about employee wellness that bosses looking to combat the causes of absenteeism should pay attention to.
By Amir Sharif
In the UK productivity is a long-standing problem. The answer, says Amir Sharif of Brunel Business School, won’t involve being more entrepreneurial, or putting more investment into STEM skills, science and tech.
The pace of business is getting faster, making it tough to stay on top of ever increasing workloads. And with the pressure of getting things done representing a clear and present danger to work/life balance, Bruce Kornfeld, CEO of Gyst, looks to a future where technology helps, rather than hinders those aiming to strike the right balance.
The University of East Anglia (UEA) has released a study that aims to improve understanding of the key causes of employees going to work when sick – known as presenteeism – and to make managers more aware of the growing phenomenon.
While many CEOs tend to spend the majority of their days in the boardroom, it turns out this kind of schedule can be detrimental to their productivity.
By Sue Ingram
Celebration, parties, food and fun. They’re all part of Christmas, and for a gloriously long weekend, the closest many of us intend to get to working is gauging how much room we need to leave for pudding. So how to communicate what’s expected of the workforce over the Christmas period
