Sitting in front of the computer all day at your job doesn’t automatically translate to having a high level of productivity. Just because you haven’t moved doesn’t mean you’ve been fully focused on work, despite what your employer might think. In fact, taking regular breaks throughout your day can actually be the catalyst to a [...]

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Talk to any of the highest-performing executives, and they will most likely tell you they have a system for productivity. It might revolve around a certain piece of software, a filing system, stack of index cards, or something altogether different, but all of the biggest achievers use one. What you should learn from that, however, [...]

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OfficeTime is surveying freelancers and business professionals on how they spend their time each day and why they may track their time (for billing or productivity purposes, or not at all). If you are willing to participate, please take their survey. This is a follow up to OfficeTime’s Top Time Killers survey.

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In times past, napping on the job would have gotten you fired, or at least seriously reprimanded, but that isn’t always the case in today’s workplace. With studies finding that a simple 26-minute nap can boost performance by as much as 34% and alertness by 54%, many employers have decided they’d rather have well-rested employees [...]

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What do you see as the biggest waste of time in your work day?  OfficeTime.net recently conducted a survey of working professionals on their Biggest Time Killers. Survey participants were asked to name their top-three time killers. Of all the ways people manage to squander their time each day, “Email” was named as this year’s biggest time [...]

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What comes to your mind when you think of a hard-working executive or professional? Is it someone who puts in long hours at the office, even after others have gone home? We tend to associate really hard work with the hard-driving types of people who seem to always be “on the clock.” They are certainly [...]

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Pick ten people at random and ask them to describe their vision of a productive work environment. You will probably hear the same answers: stress-free, quiet, lots of teamwork, happy employees, good morale, room to work, places to concentrate, etc. Now ask the same ten people how to design an office that best creates this [...]

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How many times have you heard someone say that a vacation, or a day off, went by much too quickly… and that they wish they could do it over again? How many times have you been that person? You certainly are not alone if you feel like there are never enough days to get away [...]

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Office organization is always a challenge for small businesses because they tend to channel most of their labor resources into “productive” work that directly generates revenue rather than into ancillary functions. Still, a properly organized office is necessary to maintain a positive atmosphere that is tidy and structured. To replace chaos with sanity in your [...]

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Call it the curse of the hyper-productive person, but trying to do too much with your time can almost be as bad as trying to do too little. That is because, no matter how well you are using them, you only have so many hours and minutes to spend each day. That realization leads us [...]

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