Volkswagen is fighting the good fight in work-life balance by stopping its BlackBerry servers from delivering email to employees after regular work hours. The plan, which applies to VW Germany workers with trade-union-negotiated contracts, only permits emails to be delivered during a window that begins 30 minutes before an employee&...
This GOOD infographic examines a fair question: do we live to work, or work to live? The short answer is that it depends on several factors, including your age, income levels, and whether you are self-employed or a wage-and-salary worker. Among the infographic's data: In terms of age,...
To preserve productivity in the holiday season and beyond, you must embrace downtime. This advice might seem paradoxical (especially if you're new to the Ridiculously Efficient methodology), but Scott Belsky, author of "Making Ideas Happen," argues that downtime fosters creativity and enables our best ideas to...
This Credit Loan infographic on marketing via blogging and social media indicates that the onslaught of Web-driven promotion and engagement is far from over. By 2012, 43 percent of U.S. companies will be blogging -- that's up from just 16 percent in 2007. Other fun stats on...
This infographic from CableTV.com offers a simple solution for the world's ills: Blame Twitter. Per its statistics, the social media service is wasting energy, ruining the environment and killing people at an alarming rate. Should we ditch our social media efforts to save the planet? Not so...
I've previously shared my Ridiculously Efficient social media workflow, but until now, I haven't discussed how I use social media for content production. It's easy to get sucked into social media for hours on end, but doing so costs me money and free time,...
