Performance & Culture
Factors affecting employee productivity in 2022
If you want to find out the top factors influencing productivity at the workplace, we have a helpful blog article for all your needs here.
Performance & Culture
If you want to find out the top factors influencing productivity at the workplace, we have a helpful blog article for all your needs here.
Isabel García
HR Consultant
9 of August, 2022
As a manager one of your roles is to monitor and improve employee productivity. Productivity is a vital measure of how well your employees are performing. Whilst it is not the be all and end all of success, high productivity is a strong indicator of a healthy workplace. To understand the factors affecting employee productivity, read our blog post below and get to know ways in which you can improve employee productivity.
Employee productivity can often have a vague definition, so it is important you know what it really means and how it differs to efficiency. Productivity is usually equated with the efficiency of a business’s production process, but in the case of employee productivity it largely refers to the amount of output they produce over a period of time. This is also known as labor productivity. To understand how you can thus save time and your workers energy on the right projects, you need to know what causes a lack of productivity, and address it using productivity tools.
Generally speaking you can divide the factors that affect worker productivity across 4 categories:
You can add motivation to the managerial nous part. A more productive and satisfied workforce to be effective? That’s the goal. Their motivation is also as much your responsibility as it is theirs.
Technology is now an important part of staff productivity. There are multiple facets to the technological dimension of employee productivity. The most basic one is the tools your workers have, including their PCs, that they need to do the job. Technology can also have negative effects on productivity though. Excessive distractions have show to lower staff productivity levels in the workplace.
More abstractly, technology also influences the communication and processes between a line manager and their directs. Technology has now made it easier for line managers to communicate and give orders to their employees. They can also monitor the time employees spend on specific projects, or quickly schedule whatever is required via a multi-device application.
Examples of technology improving your business and its productivity can include :
Technology is thus vitally important for your workplace management. Your use of it can make or break the productivity levels of your company.