Stress-free productivity does exist

Your toddler has just found the paint, there’s spaghetti on the walls, and you’re starting to wonder “why did I choose to work from home?”

This week we have published a new version of the mobile app that contains a good number of improvements (especially regarding project management), some changes in the user interface, and some bug fixes from the previous version.

The world is becoming increasingly reliant on technology, digital platforms, and the internet. This growing reliance on technology has given rise to a concept known as ‘digital stress’. But this condition is nothing new.

Viktor Frankl, an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor, wrote the book Man’s Search for Meaning. In it, he analysed man’s capacity to overcome his difficulties from a psychiatric point of view. He explains that all human beings, unlike animals, have self-awareness and the ability to act on the basis of that awareness. This means that we’re capable of responding to a stimulus in a completely different way to what our instincts suggest and even to what we have been taught.

Employees are the driving force behind every business. Moreover, how well they perform on the job determines the success or failure of the company. It goes without saying that highly performing teams result in highly successful organizations and vice versa. As an employer, your main objective is to enhance employee performance to remain competitive and achieve growth. However, if you are to improve employee performance, it is paramount to understand what it entails. In this article, we give you insights on how to measure and evaluate employee performance, as well as the steps you can take to ensure that employees continue performing well for increased company growth.