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- How to Stay Happy and Productive With a Time Tracker App - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2019 from Arina KatrychevaMany tend to think that becoming more productive boils down to learning to work harder. Not checking your messengers and social media, vigorously resisting procrastination, and dedicating all of the time to your work assignments. Well, that’s only partly true. In fact, this approach only ...
Views: 947 - How to Make the Best of Your Daily Commuting - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2019 from Arina KatrychevaBeing an office employee often comes with a price. Leading a sedentary lifestyle, following the dresscode, or having to deal with workplace toxicity – lots of attributes of an office job are so far from being perfect. But for many employees, daily commuting is one of their most tedious ...
Views: 896 - Excuses for Missing Work: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2019 from Arina KatrychevaAt some point, we’ve all had to miss work for one reason or another. And while it’s less of an issue if your job permits a certain degree of flexibility, things get a lot more complicated when you work full time with a strictly defined schedule. Your manager will want to know the reason why you ...
Views: 692(1 vote) - Best Time Management Software for Your Freelance Career - by Submitted on May 30, 2019 from Arina KatrychevaMany admit they’ve become more productive after having shifted from office work to freelancing. That seems logical first: working from home is less stress and interruptions, more flexibility and comfort, and tons of saved time. Sounds a bit Pollyannaish, doesn’t it? In reality, a freelancer ...
Views: 1230 - How to Become a Digital Nomad: Practical Tips - by Submitted on May 30, 2019 from Arina KatrychevaYou can’t buy happiness, but you can always buy a plane ticket. And if you are secretly dreaming about buying a one-way ticket to Thailand, grabbing a backpack and never showing up at your cubicle anymore, probably it’s time to take the first step towards your dream. Usually, people don’t ...
Views: 895 - 15 Best Pomodoro Timers That Boost Your Focus - by Submitted on May 30, 2019 from Arina KatrychevaThe Pomodoro technique has proven to be an efficient way to stay organized and productive. It is based on natural body cycles and helps build the work processes harmonically into your daily routine. In short, the technique prescribes to divide the work process into 25-minute work sprints ...
Views: 1030 - Mind Maps: A Visual Tool to Boost Your Time Management - by Submitted on May 22, 2019 from Arina KatrychevaTime management has been a hot topic among productivity enthusiasts for a while, so finding a new and fresh perspective in the vast ocean of internet knowledge can be a bit challenging, but also exciting! One such subject that in our opinion has been flying somewhat under the radar are mind ...
Views: 768 - Creating an Employee Engagement Strategy that Works - by Submitted on May 22, 2019 from Arina KatrychevaIf you run a business or work in a management role, you have probably heard of employee engagement and its role in a company’s long-term success. But what is it exactly, and why is it so important? To answer that question, we must first understand the distinction between employee engagement ...
Views: 978 - Best Time Management Apps for Increasing Efficiency at Work - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2019 from Arina KatrychevaAs hard as we try to be more efficient and productive at work, it’s often hard to adopt better time management practices without using special tools. Here’s our selection of the best time management apps that will help you boost your concentration, spend less time on routine activities, and be ...
Views: 1012 - Freelancer’s Time Management Problems: Solve Them with Grace - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2019 from Arina KatrychevaAs sweet as the freedom is, starting a freelance job is usually overwhelming. All of a sudden you have to deal with all management stuff that was off your shoulders when you were in the office. And time flies by so quickly that you barely understand what you’ve managed to do. So here’s what you ...
Views: 1060 - Employees’ absenteeism in the workplace: How to handle unscheduled absences - by Submitted on Mar 23, 2018 from Arina KatrychevaUnscheduled absences are expensive for the economy and specific companies. According to Forbes, the annual cost of productivity losses caused by absenteeism in the workplace reaches the figure of $24.2 billion, depending on the occupation. There are several ways to reduce their negative ...
Views: 1220 - Reasons for Calling In Sick: How Much Do You Really Need to Know? - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2018 from Arina KatrychevaSick leave policies vary greatly from state to state and from company to company. Some companies offer a fixed number of sick days annually, others do not. Some employers require a doctor’s note for every single day taken, others request it only for long-term sick leaves. Whether someone ...
Views: 1102 - The Growing Importance of Project Management: A Global Trend - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2018 from Arina KatrychevaUntil recently, many jobs simply didn’t exist. Take a wind farm engineer, for example, or an e-learning course developer. The rapidly emerging technology creates new occupations and changes the way people work. There is also a good deal of jobs which are not new, but remain overshadowed and ...
Views: 1909 - Time-Tracking Software: A Brief Guide - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaOver a third of workers believe they waste 1-2 hours a day on their workplace, as shown in a Gallup poll taken in 2007. That makes up to 10 hours per week on average. These figures could make any business owner think about a career change. Luckily, there is a way out of this pain. The use of ...
Views: 1764 - How to Choose a Time-Tracking Tool for Nonprofits - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaIt wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that one of the biggest challenges nonprofits face is to utilize the minimum funds to maximum efficiency. Limited resources make human capital even more important of an asset in a nonprofit organization. At the same time, ensuring accountability and ...
Views: 1717 - A Tough Call: Agree To Be Spied on... or Get Fired - by Submitted on Oct 05, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaAccording to recent Ernst & Young research, emerging use of technologies presents huge privacy risks , but the privacy regulations fall behind. We can see this gap in the workplace environment. An employee's privacy is hardly protected anymore. Let us look closer at this issue. To keep an ...
Views: 2134 - Keep calm and code on: Productivity tools for developers - by Submitted on Oct 04, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaProductivity turns into a vague concept when speaking of jobs in the technology environment. Programming is one of the areas where productivity is really hard to measure and manage: a developer’s productivity cannot be measured in trivial figures like lines of code. There are various opinions ...
Views: 1335 - I’ll Do it Tomorrow: Overcoming Procrastination - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaHave you ever found yourself in a situation where you sat down to do an important task only to realize then that your clothes needed ironing? Or that your digital music collection was in need of some serious reorganizing? And then there’s this fascinating documentary on bird migration on YouTube ...
Views: 1591 - How to Stop Worrying and Start Time Tracking - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaWhy are so many managers skeptical about time tracking? Let's face the truth: they have already tried to make employees track their time... and failed. According to some recent surveys, up to 87% of companies experience problems with implementing a time-tracking software. However, tech is ...
Views: 1439 - Learning How to Learn - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaStriving to be more productive while learning online a worthy endeavor. And while being able to perform your everyday tasks quickly and efficiently is an important productivity skill, knowing how learn new things and put that new knowledge into practice is just as crucial. That might sound easy ...
Views: 1598 - Smart, Simple and Accurate Timesheet Software - by Submitted on Apr 24, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaCompanies of any size need timesheet tools to keep track of work time, analyze performance of employees and teams, and optimize the work process. Many time-tracking tools are available on the market, with most of them costing money, which is often not an option for startups and freelancers. But ...
Views: 1678 - Productivity at work: How to measure the unmeasurable? - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaMeasuring and improving workplace productivity has been one of the biggest concerns for managers since the beginning of the twentieth century. The famous “If you can measure it, you can manage it” cliché suggests that quantitative indexes are enough to help the manager understand the trends and ...
Views: 1271 - Less Is More: 4 Things to Do When You Are Overwhelmed - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaNearly everyone is complaining about having too much to do at work nowadays. The reasons may vary from ambitions and overcommitting to just being unable to say no to extra work – but the result is always the same: you end up at risk of not managing to do everything you had planned. Experts say ...
Views: 1809(1 vote) - Time off Request: It Doesn't Have to Be a Headache - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaEven in today’s shaky job market when an increasing number of employees are reluctant to take their vacation days, requesting time off is still very much a common practice for businesses of any size. Of course, it’s hard to imagine employees just not showing up to work without any notice ...
Views: 1427 - Researching Happiness: 8 Really Helpful Productivity Blogs - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaResearching productivity seems to be a today’s trend. Experts and bloggers are talking and writing about boosting productivity at the workplace, defeating procrastination and increasingwork efficiency. Research-backed conclusions and personal thoughts, motivational stories and expert studies – ...
Views: 1301 - Time Management Basics: 5 Tools to Get You Started - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaNo matter how well organized and efficient we think we are, at some point we’ve all felt as if there’s just not enough hours in the workday to keep up with everything. And so we end up falling behind and we panic. And in a desperate effort to boost our time management skills we start researching ...
Views: 1505(1 vote) - Productivity Tools That You Should Start Using Today - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaSometimes it’s hard to work efficiently when distractions like endless email clutter, chats and conversations, or funny YouTube videos get in the way: we cannot concentrate, we forget the important, getting stuck in what clearly isn’t. Our self-control alone is often not enough to break ...
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