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Money is always touted as the most critical factor in business. After all, if you aren’t in profit, the very survival of your company is at stake. Of course, money does not exist in a vacuum and closely related to other resources as well, including time and effort. In fact, that is where the issue of productivity becomes relevant because both these things have a monetary value. Therefore if you can be more productive and reduce the amount of time and effort your business needs to succeed, you can save money as well. A topic you can discover more on, in the post below.
Don’t be terrorized by tech.
Information technology (IT) is critical for nearly all businesses in the modern market. However, those that are not an expert in this field can often feel as if IT causes more productivity issues than it solves. After all, if your network goes down and no one can get online, things tend to grind to a halt pretty quickly.
Happy, there is a solution that companies can put in place to counter this. It is to use a proactive monitoring service for their IT, something you can get more information on this website about. The basic idea being that proactively monitoring your IT systems means you can discover any issues that could develop into a problem ahead of time. Something that means they can be solved before they make any impact on productivity at all.
Don’t let unnecessary distractions get in the way.
The workplace is full of distractions, some job related, and some placed more firmly in the social realm. However, any time that your employees aren’t spending on working will be damaging your productivity. That is why it is so important to rid your business environment of as many distractions as possible.
Of course, that may mean making some pretty significant changes to the way that you work. Such as swapping an open plan seating arrangement for one with booths or privacy screens. It may even mean instituting a ban on emails from employees that work at the same site. Instead, requiring them to discuss issues in person. The reason being that can be a much more effective and efficient use of time. Especially compared to pinging back electronic communication that needs further clarification and disrupts your employees’ current focus and workflow.
Do make looking after your employees a priority.
A recent trial concerning employees at Microsoft has shown that by introducing a 3 day weekend, and so a 4-day working week, productivity was raised by 40%. Yes, that’s almost double the productivity by reducing the number of days you ask your staff to work.
Now, this may sound a little counter-intuitive, but the evidence proves it works. In fact, it’s all about keeping your workers as motivated as satisfied at work as possible. Something that adding 50% to their weekend, or introducing other benefits is sure to do, and will ultimately benefit your business in terms of productivity and so also profit.
Of course, not all businesses are able to offer a 3-day weekend, but what they can do is to enable their teams to work from home one or two days a week, which is the next best thing. By using systems such as Microsoft Teams voice, businesses need not worry about the connectivity of their employees when working remotely but will still see improvements to their productivity.
