Productivity: Definition, Features & Process

lara harrison
4 min readApr 2, 2022

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In simple words, we can say that productivity is the efficiency to measure the working operations of anything. As we all know, it will assist you in analyzing how many organizational goals you have achieved effectively and efficiently.

But, many people think that productivity means that — individual forces himself to complete the task quickly within the given time. What do you think? Is that true??

Let us understand what it exactly means?

Definition:-

According to the U.S. Bureau:-

Productivity is a measure of economic performance that compares the number of goods and services produced in output with the number of inputs used to produce those goods and services.

There are also some best productivity apps by which you can easily measure the working performance of your employees:-

Empmonitor:-

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Empmonitor is an employees productivity tracker & Monitoring Software For Employees that helps managers keep looking and monitoring all the activities of the employees. With this app, a manager can analyze all the details about employees like — their check-in — check-out timing & so on.

Features:-

It provides features like:-

Time tracking

Screenshots

Keystrokes

User login

Tracking websites and apps used by employees and so on.

There are also other apps like Todoist, Toggle, and Rescue Time for employee monitoring.

You can also use a productivity planner to manage employees’ productivity.

A productivity planner assists a manager in decreasing all the procrastination of their employees for the given work. And completing all the work on time. You can do this by assigning various day-to-day tasks by setting time limits to complete the particular task. Or either you can use several tools of productivity that automatically schedule all the day-to-day work for the employees.

How to calculate productivity?

The formula for calculating productivity:-

Productivity — Total output/ Total input.

With the above formula, you can calculate productivity.

Productivity calculation will help you to acknowledge the following things:

Measuring work efficiency:-

A manager can smoothly analyze the work efficiency of their employees.

Like, as to how productive your employees are. How much time does an employee take to complete a particular task? It will help top-level management to analyze all the employee’s activities.

And also analyze their work performance.

Reduce procrastination:-

Top-level authorities keep recognizing all the work of their subordinates. As a consequence of checking on their work, the employees become more active to finish the assigned work on time. It will also support an organization to increase its profit by achieving organizational goals on time.

Organizational goals:-

As employees do their best at work without any procrastination, their working performance will also support the company to achieve the set organizational goals effectively and efficiently.

How To Enhance Productivity:-

To enhance your productivity, you may follow the following tips:-

Focus on work:-

Focus on one work at a time. Doing one task at a time increases productivity very quickly because as we focus on one particular activity,

we can complete the work before the time limit. While doing the work, keep focusing on the task. Replace minor mistakes. It will support you to complete tasks timely.

Remove Distraction:-

Always keep in mind that while working, remove all the distractions. Do not use social media during work, and keep your phone far from your workplace. Do not attain unnecessary calls during working. If you are working from home, sit in a different room, away from the distractions.

Thus, you can complete your work without getting distracted.

Make notes:-

You can also make notes or to-do lists or work schedules for each day. These lists will help you remember what tasks you have to complete in a day. You can make this list one day before work. So that you can easily find out what work you have to complete.

Keep your mind calm:-

As we know, a calm mind always helps you to complete all the assigned tasks very instantly. Many employees feel a heavy burden related to their work completion. Due to this, they are not unable to finish their work on time. Keep your mind calm by doing meditation & exercise.

Winding up:-

Productivity is a very significant part of every organization. Productive means actively completing the assigned work on time without getting distracted. I hope this article will help you gain some knowledge about productivity measurement & its applications. Thank you!

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