Reshape your work routine with the 52/17 time management method, balancing intense focus and breaks. Counter employee burnout with strategic hour tracking and witness an increase in productivity, creativity, and overall satisfaction in your team.

Organizational planning is the process of defining a company's overarching goals and mapping out the steps necessary to achieve them. Discover how to master it in 5 steps. Every organization is a complex puzzle, with different projects, tasks, and goals scattered across teams and departments. Individually these pieces might seem disjointed, but when put together they form a picture of success.

As I work remotely in North Carolina with an eye out my window to the icy landscape, I'm reminded of a phrase I keep hearing this month: EX Winter.

The unprecedented rise in remote work presents plenty of opportunities and challenges for organizations. While businesses being tied to physical locations no longer limits the talent pools from which they can draw, enabling effective communication and collaboration across dispersed teams is no simple task. Fortunately, it is a challenge with no end of possible solutions – some of which work better than others.

“Time is money.” Rightly said, in business, time is costly. The time you spend on your work and the time you misuse move the business revenue meter. Therefore, we must track the time to optimize time utilization and lead to work efficiency. Time tracking is considered the lifeblood of the business. It is the most critical aspect of business, just like payroll or project management.

In today’s workplaces, time efficiency is becoming an important aspect of productivity, as competing goals and distractions compete for our attention at work. Employees with time efficiency may prioritize their tasks more efficiently, meet deadlines for projects, and complete tasks on schedule. Deadlines that are missed, stress levels that rise, and overall productivity declines are just a few of the major effects of poor time management.

Managers holding these difficult conversations should prepare to point to specific instances. Perhaps the employee is not taking certain responsibilities seriously. Perhaps they consistently miss important deadlines and don’t seem to be making any effort to improve. Whatever the problem, employers may be able to use performance management software to identify a pattern and not just a single occasion. Has the employee already been asked to fix this problem?

If there’s a single macroeconomic indicator in early 2024 suggesting this year will be more stable than 2023, we haven’t seen it. Economies around the world are struggling. The job market has gone haywire. Plus, the tug-of-war continues between remote workers and employers demanding that they return to the office.