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10 Ways to Improve Employee Productivity
Some of these are sneaky.
I recently read about the development of the downward tilting toilet. It was developed, in part, to get employees to stop spending so much time on the commode checking on their social media. I believe the next step will be issuing astronaut diapers to employees.
While the idea of downward tilting toilets may result in less time spent in the toilet, it may hurt moral. I’m not sure that will result in more productivity. Here are some other things employers may try to implement.
1: Avoid team meetings at almost any cost.
For heaven’s sake, send out an email to cover what needs to be communicated if at all possible. The team meeting is fraught with various dangers.
For example, invariably someone trying to kiss the boss’ rear end will ask some meaningless, yet longwinded question that will do nothing but prolong the meeting and anger other team members.
And yet, the team leader will have to field questions and comments from obtuse employees under the guise of having an open-door policy.
If the meeting last longer than the doughnuts, that’s a bad meeting. If there are no doughnuts to start with that’s a terrible meeting.
