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Work Productivity

Your Game Plan For Nipping Stress In The Bud

meQuilibrium | Posted 05.02.2013 | Healthy Living
meQuilibrium

The most important work you'll do today is planning what you'll do. Here are some key strategies for staying proactive -- and one step ahead of stress.

How Connections With Nature Improve Work Performance

John Rampton | Posted 03.28.2013 | Business
John Rampton

How long have you been working without a break, could it be impacting the way you perform at your job? In this article I take a deep dive into how nature can positively impact your work performance, sanity and overall emotional well-being.

Too Much to Do and What to Do About It

John Pavley | Posted 05.16.2013 | Technology
John Pavley

Naturally I turn to technology to help me out. Modern technology is awesome, but not enough. Here is my current, highly optimized, guide to personal productivity using a combination of technology, common sense, and ideas stolen (with love) from various experts and scientific studies.

3 Time-Sucking Traps To Be Wary Of

Laurie Gerber | Posted 04.13.2013 | Healthy Living
Laurie Gerber

Your relationship to time is one of your most important relationships. Consider that time is the currency of your life. All the choices you make about how to spend your time add up to the kind of life you have.

6 Smarter Ways To Procrastinate

The Huffington Post | Sarah Klein | Posted 01.31.2013 | Healthy Living

There's a difference between killing time and Me Time. About 26 percent of Americans call themselves procrastinators, but regular breaks throughout...

12 Ways To Get Ahead At Work Without Really Trying

The Huffington Post | Alexis Kleinman | Posted 01.16.2013 | Business

Of course we all want to be better employees than we are. But there are only so many hours in the day, and sometimes it's just not possible to, you kn...

Employees Only Work For THREE MInutes At A Time Before Getting Distracted

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 12.14.2012 | Business

With work emails, personal emails, chitchat across open-office layouts and the multiple browser windows employees tend to have open, the workplace is ...

6 Things Really Productive People Do

Inc. | Posted 12.12.2012 | Small Business

By Kevin Daum, visit Inc. People often ask me, amazed, how I manage to do so many things. Aside from writing two columns every week, I speak re...

On The Feeling Of Success (Will It Be Worth It When You Get There?)

Danielle LaPorte | Posted 02.04.2013 | Healthy Living
Danielle LaPorte

It's a crime against the human spirit that we so often disassociate positive emotions from the pursuit of success. We tell ourselves that It'll be worth it when we get there, and we grind and crank and endure our way to the goal posts.

Criagslist Slap Experiment A Success: Man Finds His Work Productivity Spike When Monitored By Paid Minder

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 10.18.2012 | Small Business

Wanted: one hard worker willing to slap me in the face any time I get off task. That's the gist of a real Craigslist listing Maneesh Sethi posted ...

Fantasy Football Costs Employers A LOT Of Money

The Huffington Post | Drew Guarini | Posted 09.04.2012 | Small Business

Fantasy football is costing employers billions due to lost worker productivity, according to a study by Chicago-based outplacement firm Challenger, Gr...

Reactivity and the Death of Intention

Alex Charfen | Posted 10.22.2012 | Technology
Alex Charfen

It is nearly impossible for us to reach our goals through the constant reacting to other people. Instead of starting the day with email or Facebook, start it deliberately, in solitude and away from all of those reactive devices.

Stop Procrastinating! 5 Steps To Get The Job Done

Dawn Gluskin | Posted 10.12.2012 | Healthy Living
Dawn Gluskin

As you slough the items off your to-do list and get closer to your goal of completion, be sure to notice your clear head, renewed energy, and increased momentum and focus. There is truly peace in completion -- enjoy it!

These Countries Don't Overwork Their Employees

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 06.27.2012 | Business

Searching for reasonable work hours? Try moving to Europe. Americans are over ten times more likely to work in excess of 50 hours per week than th...

We Work Too Hard

David Vognar | Posted 07.28.2012 | Business
David Vognar

It would behoove us to remember that slow and steady often wins the race, just as a more balanced approach to work life can be more beneficial than the helter-skelter mindset of our cut-throat labor market.

Building a Better Relationship With Your Work Partner

Joan Burge | Posted 07.18.2012 | Business
Joan Burge

While every boss would like to think he or she is the best manager in the country, the fact is many try -- but fail.

Why Working From Home May Not Be All It's Cracked Up To Be

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.01.2012 | Business

Workers are getting more flexibility from their employers, but that doesn't necessarily mean their lives are getting any easier. Companies are le...

The Trick That Cuts Cleaning Time In Half

The Huffington Post | Diana N. Nguyen | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home

There are very few of us who actually enjoy cleaning. And, let's face it, most of us would probably rather be doing something else most of the time. H...

More Workers Filing Lawsuits To Claim Unpaid Overtime

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.16.2012 | Business

More workers are fighting back against their employers. Workers filed 32 percent more lawsuits against their employers for unpaid overtime last ye...

Life at High Speed: Productivity Tools and Brain Optimization

Shaahin Cheyene | Posted 05.30.2012 | Business
Shaahin Cheyene

Life is short. In our fast-paced lives it seems as if time is the one commodity of which we never have enough. As an effective person it seems that yo...

The Productivity Paradox

Jerry Jasinowski | Posted 05.26.2012 | Business
Jerry Jasinowski

In a perfect world, no economist who has never visited a modern industrial workplace or spent time with real world business executives would be allowed to write commentaries about the state of manufacturing. Alas, we do not live in a perfect world.

Bonnie Kavoussi

Wages Fell In 2011, While Corporate Profits Surged

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.01.2012 | Business

A new report out Tuesday shows that working Americans made less money last year, as real wages fell about two percent in 2011, when accounting for inf...

6 Ways To Amp Up Your Productivity At Work (And Avoid Cubicle Chaos)

Posted 11.28.2011 | Women

Megan Halpern | The Daily Muse Ever have one of those days when, after nine jam-packed hours in the office, you still haven't knocked a major item ...

Will Feeding Your Employees Make Them More Productive?

Judith J. Wurtman, PhD | Posted 01.10.2012 | Healthy Living
Judith J. Wurtman, PhD

Companies are attempting to enhance productivity of their employees by offering perks and making the workplace a more pleasant environment. However, feeding workers might decrease productivity.

Men More Productive At Work When They're In A Relationship -- Women Not So Much

Aol Jobs | Posted 11.20.2011 | Women

Sixty-four percent of single men say they are more productive at work when they are in a relationship, compared with less than half of women, accordin...