Productivity / Performance

Fantasy football comes at a cost

09/16/2014

Yes, it’s a morale boost, but it doesn’t come free. Employers can expect to “pay” an employee (earning a $40,000-per-year salary) $356 in lost productivity to play a season’s worth of fantasy football on company time.

The power of the doodle

09/15/2014

The little faces, triangles and puppies you’ve been sketching all these years haven’t been for nought.

How to effectively manage workaholic employees

08/29/2014

Suspect you’re managing a workaholic? Here are tips to help the employee find balance, and the organization cut costs and liability.

How to do appraisals for flex-job holders

08/27/2014

What’s the best way to evaluate the work of someone who’s working where you can’t see them? Here’s good advice to pass along to your organization’s managers.

Sitting is the new smoking

08/22/2014

A new University of Southern California study says brain processing speed increases from 5% to 20% when people are standing compared to sitting.

Teach employees to ask for feedback from reluctant bosses

08/19/2014

Why is employer-to-employee feedback in such short supply? The answer is simple: Managers rank it among their most difficult duties.

BYOD creates risks beyond information security

07/28/2014

Bring Your Own Device programs have taken off—but what are the legal issues and security problems you need to be aware of?

Is it time to terminate your formal annual review process?

07/24/2014

Many companies—including Adobe and Netflix—have abandoned formal annual reviews, adopting a more agile approach that focuses on continuous performance management. Could this process work for you?

Personal tech rules when it comes to wasting time

07/23/2014

American employees are ingenious wasters of time. A new poll has identified the worst workplace time-sucks.

Let them butt heads! How to inspire healthy conflict

07/01/2014

Good managers want employees to constructively challenge their ideas because it produces better decisions and problem-solving.