Every three months, I follow a process I call Destroy to Create: I select a regular practice, routine, habit -- something at which I’m already proficient and efficient in -- and reengineer it from first principles. Last quarter, I experimented with waking up at 5 a.m. and spending...
A healthy diet promotes good health, and employee wellness is tied so closely to worker efficiency that 77 percent of lost productivity is attributable to health-related issues, according to a recent study. According to the below infographic by ZeroCater, employees who did not regularly eat whole grains, fruits and vegetables...
Before you pick up another cup of coffee and blame your tiredness on an afternoon slump, you may want to turn your focus elsewhere—like the lights in your office. That’s because light does much more than people realize to affect how well they work or how happy (or...
We wanted to start the year off on a positive note while finding a way to maintain that motivation and momentum throughout the year. That's when we came up with 52 Notes -- every week of 2017 we will send out an email with a note from our...
With technology making it easy to bring work home, we need our weekends to unplug and recharge now more than ever. Even if we don’t do any actual work over the weekend, our devices make it too easy to check email or Slack messages. A study by the American...
This post is brought to you by the folks at Find My Workspace. Distractions! Noise! People! Be it the ringing phones, running office machines or colleagues having an energetic discussion, noise is a major problem in open space working environments. Most of the people who work in open space offices...
