Increased profit begins with increased productivity. The more your employees work and the better they do, the more you get out of them as a business and the more profit you make as a result.
So, take on board the following tips to increase productivity in the workplace.
1. Get a Dehumidifier
Clean, fresh air is needed to keep your workers invigorated and healthy. If you are forcing them into a stuffy office all day, with humid, warm air, they’re not going to work at the best pace. You wouldn’t be at your best if you were left to sweat in your own juice either. The same applies for lovely dry air. You need optimal temperatures. Take a look at this link to know what to get.
2. Take Regular Breaks
You don’t necessarily need to increase the time spent hunched over desks in order to increase productivity. A worker is always going to be at their best when they are freshest, and that’s usually when they have just finished a break. So, let them take regular breaks to get caffeinated and prepared.
3. Reject Meetings
It might seem counterintuitive, but a meeting isn’t a great way to increase productivity because it is just time spent sitting around discussing nothing and doing nothing. If you can convey the points via a video chat or phone chat while working, do it. Don’t drag workers away from their work just so they can chat about that work.
4. Let Them Work Away from Work
If you give hardworking employees the chance to catch-up on work emails when they are at home or on their commute, they will. They might not do actual work, but they will definitely chip away at those emails, which in turn will reduce the amount of time they spend catching up on them every morning.
5. Track Their Time
An employee is always going to produce more when they think they are being tracked. It also has a positive knock-on effect. If there is no tracking going on and they know that their colleagues are slacking off all the time, they will feel less inclined to work hard. After all, why should they do all of the work? But if those colleagues are working flat-out and getting noticed for it, they will feel inclined to try and catch up.
6. Incentivize Them
If working hard means that an employee earns more money for your company, then incentivize them for it. However, there is a limit and this is not something you should do if earning more money for the company means screwing over the customers either by overcharging them or getting them to pay for unnecessary extras. That’s just going to earn you a one-way ticket to a PR nightmare.
7. Stop Multitasking
Don’t promote multitasking, because it’s not as effective as you think. Studies have shown that trying to do multiple things at once slows you down and reduces the quality of work produced. This is true whether your employees are trying to do both at once or are switching between the two at pace. Instead, tell them to put all of their efforts into completing one before moving onto the other.
Not only will they do it quicker and better, but upon completing the first task they will receive a mental boost, knowing that their job is half done, whereas if they were trying to do two or more tasks at once they don’t get that satisfying buzz until all of the work is done, by which time they are drained.
