When it comes to productivity, focus, and attention, it’s easy to ignore reality and tell ourselves we’re doing just fine. But the numbers don’t lie. Read our best data-driven articles on the science of doing good work.
Slack bills itself as “where work happens”. So what happened when it was essentially closed for business? We analyzed productivity data from 12,000 users to find out.
Email and IM are always there in the background, compelling us to click over for a “quick” check in. But these add up. Which made us ask: How much of your day is spent multitasking with communication tools? And just how bad is it for your productivity?
When exactly are we the most productive? Thinking back on your last year, you probably have no idea. Days blend together. Months fly by. And another year turns over without any real understanding of how we actually spent our time. But our mission at RescueTime has always been to help you do more meaningful work. And this
Productivity in 2017: What we learned from analyzing 225 million hours of work time Read More »
We built RescueTime because we thought it should be easier to make sure we’re spending our time the way we want to. It has opened up a whole new world of data for us, and we wanted to share some of the ways we make use of it around the office. Forming a baseline lets
How we use RescueTime, at RescueTime. Read More »
We’re often surprised by how little work we get done during the day even after we’ve spent several hours in front of a computer screen. In 2007, Salary.com did a survey that found Americans waste 20% of their time at work, and 34.7% of all respondents said that surfing the Internet was the biggest distraction.
Happy birthday to guitar legend, Les Paul who would have been 96 today! Google launched its Les Paul Tribute Doodle on Thursday which allowed users to record and playback friend’s recordings or just play along. Almost immediately you could hear the rumblings on Twitter and Facebook about this great musician’s effect on music and many
Google Doodle Strikes Again! 5.35 million hours strummed Read More »
When Google launched its Pac-Man logo on Friday, we immediately heard amused groans in our tweet-streams. “Well, so much for my morning,” said one. “Google’s Pac Man logo just ruined millions of dollars in productivity today, nationwide,” said another. Here’s what we all saw on Friday: Here are two of the tweets we saw in
The Tragic Cost of Google Pac-Man – 4.82 million hours Read More »
[note: some data in this post is missing– given that we work on and troubleshoot our own software, sometimes we don’t get to log ALL of our time in a week, but it’s consistent enough that I don’t think it skews these results in a big way. We also had a vacation in each of
Does working from home make you more productive? Yes (with data)! Read More »
On Monday, the entire RescueTeam dragged their collective backsides into the office a little bit late. Weekends are sometimes challenging to recover from in terms of work schedule– but Daylight Savings Time Monday is especially painful. Towards the end of the day we all collectively felt the day was short– and, of course, it was.
Daylight Savings Time costs the United States $480,000,000 Read More »
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