Our top productivity tips to boost your company
Our top productivity tips to boost your company
There are only so many hours in the day, and only so many ways to keep gas in the metaphorical tank while you work.
Yet productivity is the most important factor in any business. If yours dips, it could cost your company thousands of pounds.
Businesses large and small are constantly battling the tide of low productivity. To give them a helping hand, we’ve come up with a few tips on ways to boost the activity in your company.
Reduce working time
It might sound counterintuitive, but attempts at the six-hour working day have actually increased productivity in many countries.
Always at the forefront of socially conscious schemes, Sweden ran a pilot scheme in 2016 for the six-hour working week in a bid to improve the happiness and productivity of nurses in hospitals. While the scheme was eventually found to be too costly to be put in place permanently, it was a social experiment that piqued the interest of the international press, as well as private and public authorities the world over.
Take inspiration from this tip: have a trial run of the six-hour working day in your company and see how you fare.
Outsource your payroll
HR departments have a lot on their plate this year, with General Data Protection Regulations to be introduced in early 2018 and the deal on Brexit potentially altering employment and immigration law.
With all that to deal with, is payroll management really the best way to use their time?
Outsourced and automated payroll from companies like SD Worx has shown that HR can put the ‘human’ back into human resources – but they need to be given time in the day to do it.
Take inspiration from this tip: try out payroll automation and see how it improves the productivity of your HR and finance departments.
Encourage ad-hoc working
Employees of the millennial generation increasingly value flexibility in their working day. That might mean getting to go home in the afternoons so they can walk their dog then work in their personal office. It might mean coming into work early so they can leave at four instead of five. Or perhaps it means taking a longer lunch break and making up the time on a different day.
Whatever it means, giving workers this level of flexibility will allow their personal and workings lives to complement each other and, in turn, increase productivity and satisfaction levels.
Take inspiration from this tip: Introduce flexitime into your workplace and see workplace satisfaction skyrocket.
Use the carrot…
…not the stick. Many bosses still believe that fuming at their employees will foster a more efficient environment. But you’re not Alan Sugar and this isn’t the dark ages – positive reinforcement is always the best course of action.
Books like How to Win Friends and Influence People show that conversational sleight of hand is always the best way to encourage employees. Be kind to them and they’ll want to please you.
Take inspiration from this tip: Reward your employees for their productivity and you’ll receive great results.
Can you think of any productivity tips that we haven’t mentioned? Then let us know in the comments below.
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