Eight Ways to Boost Employee Productivity – eWeek

There are 8 ways to boost employee productivity. You need to define your goals and also reassess continuously. Despite all of the new productivity tools that are out there, it is clear that workplace productivity is in decline. Every business is dealing with this problem and looking for ways to fix it.

Key Takeaways:

• According to the U.S. Department of Labor, worker productivity—which can be mapped directly to production output—dropped at a 0.6 percent annual rate during the second quarter of 2016.
• Take a look at the current state of your workflow and determine which processes could be streamlined. To start, look at departments that are consumed by time-intensive, tedious procedures to get a better sense of the daily workflow to help identify the potential problems or processes that should be reorganized.
• After you’ve found something that can be optimized and have set your goals, create a roadmap for improving the process and reassess progress on a regular basis so you can fine-tune and re-engineer the new procedures to ensure employees are benefiting from the updated workflow.

“According to the U.S. Department of Labor, worker productivity—which can be mapped directly to production output—dropped at a 0.6 percent annual rate during the second quarter of 2016.”

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