But there are employers who understand the benefit of keeping pets in the work place. K9 units are one of the valid examples where a dog is allowed to stay in the office floor. In America this lack of productivity by taking pets at work is a debatable issue. Every June people celebrate the “Take Your Dog to Work” Day as a protest to all the American employers who finds the pet will result in lack of productivity. Survey shows that almost 17 % of the American workforce works in pet-friendly offices, while 23 % of the Americans feel that allowing pets in office should be fostered.

With so many statistics on the permission of allowing pets at workplace, it is proven that the idea of not allowing pets at office for the sake of low productivity is simply a lame excuse.

Ventilation within an office is a big question and often it becomes the source of pain for employees. Lack of proper ventilation can make the employees burn more energy while offering less output. The stale air inside the office scaled down the productivity and in case there is a scope to improve the ventilation process, the productivity will improve by at most 11 %.

Temperature is yet another area where improvement can increase the productivity of your employees. Research has been conducted to find the impact of temperature on productivity on the productivity of the people working in it. It has been found that the increase in temperature from 68 to 77 Fahrenheit generates typo and reduces the productivity by 44 %, while the typing output decreases devastatingly.

Daylight is a yet another factor to increase productivity and it has been proved that when employees work on a room where less daylight enters, their productivity recedes. On the contrary people working in a place that receives enough daylight, can make the productivity high enough.

You cannot always blame the Facebook’s Farmville for your distractions, as there are several other work habit that makes an individual get distracted from his work. At least 6 out of 10 people have the habit of checking personal mails frequently in between their work which damage productivity significantly. There is a thumb rule for your email checking, which says that never check your mails in the morning. Try to check mails in evening to avoid checking the mails every now and then.

Meeting are well known for wasting time as meeting ends up with planning and not real work. Minimizing this planned wastage of time should be practiced and for that try to pull down the status meeting that are held almost weekly. Project status can be seen or monitored through business software applications and this can save your time for productive work.

Making to-do list is must when you are working in a company or carrying on a business. But your stick to your to-do list religiously? I hope that answers not that promising. The to-do list is basically a routine that we set in the beginning of a day or a day earlier. When we fix it we take into account only the productive work and thus the list shows you the productive work minus distractions. Hence, sticking on to it faithfully will help you improve your productivity and one you mangle the to-do list, it is bound to happen that you cannot maintain it throughout the day.

The reason why I decided to write this article is to find the actual hard work of a single day and find the ways to eliminate distractions so that we use most of the hours for delivering hard core work exclusively. May be this will make us realize that the routine that we religiously stick to everyday is in reality a non-work routine.

Before I start  with my discussion, I would like to draw the attention of my readers towards the definition of work. Work has different meanings and work for me might not be regarded as work for another person. For example, for a social media manager Facebook and Twitter is the main working platform as they have to keep in touch with the social audience for promotional purposes. But social media network in another person’s case is regarded as a distraction. Hence, one should have a clear definition of the work as well as fun. One thing to know and distinguish between the tow is to judge if an action will offer you money in the long-term. If an action offers you money in the long-term then it is definitely work and nothing else.

Once you are aware of what work is, you can now use a method to count the reductive work easily. I would suggest you to use the two device system where you use your computer for all the work that s regarded as productive and for the rest use iPad. Calculating the time spent on each device can explain how much productive work you are doing on a single day.

The alternative method of the above mentioned mean is to use a time to keep watch on your productive time solely. It will not be a tough job to do it for at least 5 days and this will give you a correct calculation indeed.

Finally, the method of keeping a track of the login and log off time can be a good mean to see how much time you have devoted to your productive work. This can be done through schedule task option in Windows operating system.

Today, the fact about business execution earned from more executives is not unknown to business executives. Companies running with meager employees are plenty in numbers in modern days and the employees working within doesn’t accomplish the desired work. Needless to say, that business executives have realized, business collaboration and execution are not offering them the right push required. There is much room for grievances, angst, frustration and unhappiness. Company owners and managers wish to have better business execution than before and wish that the collaboration among the employees and within a team should improve with time. The gist regarding business execution is to achieve higher productivity with less number of people.

On this context of business execution, I will draw the attention to two different areas that are common in every business concern. First are meetings. Meetings in today’s business world are more of a practice rather than a scope to improve business execution. Most of the managers who are found to be engaged in more than a couple of meetings a day find there schedule to be badge of honor. And in many cases it has been observed meetings actually inhibit the process of business execution rather than improving it. People need to find an alternative way of organizing meeting that will require less time and less possibility of organizing subsequent meeting on the same issue. The type holding meetings need improvement.

The second is the decision making part where in most occasions the people at the helm of all affairs take the decision. The employees and team members should be vested with some rights that will allow then to take decisions instantly. This will speed up the process of business execution as an employee doesn’t have to wait until the decision is executed from the top.

A few time management tips

Most of us often fall prey in the hands of time wasting and that too without notice. Many people unknowingly consume time in activities like making personal calls, surfing internet, reading personal emails and etc. These activities are so addictive that we often fail to recognize them. Identifying such activities is fundamental when you are up to managing time.

Once you are done with the above task, your next job is changing your basic behavior so as to increase your productivity. Tracking your daily business will give you the evidence whether your changed behaviors is accomplishing the mission of time management or not. For example, set a goal that for one week you are not going to spend time on unnecessary net surfing during your business hours. Your productivity of that specific will be the parameter that will explain how much time you are saving through this new behavior.

You must start of with a habit of setting time limits for your daily activities. Sticking on to the preset time limits and prioritizing your activities are imperative once you have set reasonable time for each activity. You can also go for outsourcing or delegating whe your activities are of high priority.

Time management tools are abundantly available which are paramount in planning several works in a day. Since most of the time your business makes you busy with your laptop, software programs like MSOutlook will be of great help to you. At any point of time, Outlook will notify you regarding the subsequent activities of a day.

In reality, time management is a myth, because no matter how you organize your daily schedule a day will never be more than 25 hours. But you will find yourself winning over this myth, once you follow the tips for time management.

Know what you want

Don’t head into a situation like a headless Chicken; know what you want from your time. Set goals, achievable ones, and then stick to them. All of your time management planning should be aimed squarely at making better decisions and achieving your goals.

Know how to prioritize your time

The important tasks are the ones that are critical to achieve. These tasks will help you progress in the long term and are more rewarding as well. But sometimes, important tasks aren’t urgent. I need to get my packing done for a trip I have coming up, but it’s not something I will waste my time on. I’ll leave it out and ask someone to do it while I chase more important things, such as getting the visa and foreign exchange in place.

Plan away

Make all of your goals actionable. This is perhaps the most significant part of all and the most important of time management tips. Planning fires your grey matter into life and you will be able to better see how you can do something more efficiently. If you program your mind to find the best solution, more often than not it will do just that for you. And you will end up seeing shortcuts where previously there were none. By preparing for each possible scenario, you will be able to notice conflicts before it crops up and you can then resolve it better so that the most urgent tasks are done rapidly.

Take time out for things

Focus on the important things. Concentrate on the major stuff and don’t waste your mental energy on the trivial stuff. Take the time out for the important thing and you’ll be surprised how everything falls into place.

Several manufacturing units or service industrial people need to keep changing their equipments every years or a decade, it depends on the usage and the depreciation that happens on the use of the machinery. Bigger money is spent on equipments in larger industries where they are very sure that nothing is going to work except for machines, these machines could be just anything it could be the smallest of necessities like having a refrigerator in the conference or bigger machinery to run the clothing unit. The other important factor that determines the productivity of your company is the skill set of your employees and in what department or job functions they are placed at. All of your employees are willing to work but you need to make sure that they are placed in the right department they are suited for. The employee’s interest in the work makes a major difference in the overall quality and productivity of companies. They should get job satisfaction at the end of the day.

The employees in whatever hierarchy of importance they are placed in or departments of lower or higher level, important and unimportant department they should possess the right tools for them to give you results. You can talk to your employees as to what change they need in their company or what improvements can you bring in their job environment. Talking to your employees gives you direct and valued feedback and it will help you understand their needs and bring in improvement in the productivity levels. The most important element is to have right kind of tools in the company that will help them improve the productivity at work, give the best instruments, objects, equipments and ideas to your employees to give them the best.

Sometimes we need a break from all of our routine work and so do we feel tired and stop working, we procrastinate, this is healthy procrastination as far as your break is not too lengthy that your important tasks to be finished at the end of the day remains unattended and give no productive results to your company. You have to be sure of accomplishing your targets or work when you procrastinate; you need to follow your to-do list systematically in order to attain your position in the office. If you procrastinate then you are the person who is going to fail and indeed you will keep procrastinating and one fine day you will pile up your tasks so much that it nearly becomes impossible for you to do any of these tasks.

A healthy procrastination helps you relax your mind and body and also helps you recharge your batteries. Some people along with procrastination are able to achieve their tasks but it would not happen at easy frequency what it could have been able to achieve earlier without procrastination. A procrastination battle are won only by the people who are well aware of their work ethics and want to achieve their targets in a more important and productive manner. You remain in control of your self, that is the true essence to remain in non-procrastination zone even after procrastinate. You need to have a proper balance in life, the one where you are and can able to achieve everything on time and that too willingly. You fail at your procrastination when:

• Your to-do lists still remain a to-do for weeks and months.
• The work backlog is giving you lots of problems professionally and personally.
• You get fired for procrastinating for not finishing the tasks at work on time due to which you even start getting health problems because of the tension caused.

The Business productivity by and large depends on the marketing professionals, the hard core targets that they are given makes a huge amount of difference to the amount of produce a company makes at the end of every month. If the sales are more, it will automatically lead to more production that in turn increases the company’s overall profits targets. The common marketing research states that as the number of times a sales person contacts a potential buyer there are even more and potential chances to make better and bigger amount of sales. Every marketing call made to the customer leads to increase in office or business productivity provided the sales professionals are keenly positive that they are going to be successful in making right amount of sales.

The marketing managers are more than willing to take up responsibilities provided they have a proper in-built motivated team of professionals who know exactly how to make a sale. With the new marketing strategies and varied tools available in the market, the potential business profits are getting thicker with more people learning different ideas and knowing the weaknesses of the buyers. There is more potentiality to make a sale from every 5th to 12th person you contact for making the sale. The global markets are shrinking especially with online businesses gaining much importance as people can shop at the comfort of sitting in their homes. The companies are putting their products online for the convenience of their customers that can fetch them discounts and the online contests also help them take keen interest in the things they are buying.