According to a Glassdoor study, employees aren’t using their vacation time in its entirety. They are afraid of falling behind in their work commitments. Here it is not employees’ fault, as they are afraid of losing out on valuable time. Their company is to blame as well. If a company understands the importance of time-off for […]
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Globally approximately 15% of employees are engaged in their work. The numbers vary according to different countries but haven’t exceeded 40% in any of them. Millions of dollars are being spent on employee engagement activities and yet the number of actively disengaged employees doesn’t seem to come down. (Source) Another study on employee engagement reports
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Your co-workers can be a source of frustration if you hate them. You don’t get to choose them, but you end up spending 7-8 hours a day with them. If you have work friends in your co-workers, life becomes so much better. Work friends can increase your productivity. According to a study done in the
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Employee productivity is one of the cornerstones of any business’s success. Modern workplaces face the twin challenges of identifying the most productive employees and motivating their workforce to be innovative, passionate and dedicated. Your company is only as healthy and happy as those working there. For a business to be successful, it’s essential to have
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We need to talk. Four simple words are enough to make the best of us nervous. How often do we avoid someone just to skip a tough conversation? Not just personally, but in our professional lives too. According to a study by Bravely, 70% of employees try to avoid difficult conversations at work, whether with
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At the end of every year, agencies like Glassdoor publish a series of articles such as Top companies of the last year ‘X’ unique benefits introduced in ‘z’ year and so on. There are various parameters behind these assessments such as salary, perks and benefits, work culture, etc. While there are some aspects that employees still
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Timeboxing, a key component of Scrum and Agile project management methodology, is quickly gaining in popularity over traditional to-do lists. Why? Because it eliminates some of the most common shortcomings of to-do lists and elevates the agility and visibility of current and completed tasks. Timeboxing is the simple practice of allotting a fixed unit of
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Imagine you’re a marketing manager preparing to launch a new product. Instead of making decisions alone, you bring together designers, analysts, and sales reps for a brainstorming session. The result? A marketing strategy enriched by diverse insights and expertise. This is the essence of collaborative decision-making—a model that fosters teamwork, drives innovation, and aligns teams
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You’re halfway through a long workday and are feeling kind of stressed. Your work is piling up when a coworker starts talking to you. You start to feel yourself getting tense the more they distract you. You feel closed off emotionally; you don’t want to listen or interact with anyone at all. All you want
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Edgar Schein is considered as one of the forefathers of modern organizational psychology. He was the mind behind the “Career Anchors” framework. This framework hypothesizes that an individual’s workplace inclinations adhere to eight specific categories. The attributes of these proverbial anchors dictate how they perform at work. If your people end up in positions that don’t
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