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Feb 04, 2025

The 80/20 Rule to Unlocking Productivity: Time Management for Employees

by Disha Sanghvi

Your team is always busy jumping from one call to the next, working on the details of a new project, or taking on just about anything that comes their way. But somehow the results don’t reflect. In fact, when it comes to key goals, productivity appears to be quite low – how is that possible? Sometimes it isn’t about your team being overworked or understaffed, it’s about redirecting team efforts where it matters the most by providing them with the tools to optimize their time management skills. After all, when your team has worked overtime for little to no valuable results, it isn’t just a loss for your business, it also impacts the teams’ spirit leading to disengagement, dissatisfaction, and low morale. Ultimately, this feeds into a never-ending cycle of frustration, low productivity, and stagnation. To break free from this and create a thriving workspace, this article delves into how you can align employee experience with time management skills, leading to business gains in productivity and engagement. To better understand the power of time management, we will explore the cost of distraction, the benefits of focus, and the effectiveness of the Pareto Principle (the 80/20 rule) when it comes to unlocking workplace success. Let’s focus: Setting the foundation for success Did you know employees on average only manage 12 minutes of uninterrupted focus before being distracted, thereafter taking another 25 minutes to refocus? That’s a lot of lost productivity! But it isn’t just about focus, it’s also about the tasks […]

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