Smarter Not Harder

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An individual’s preferences are grouped under four productivity pillars: logical; instinctive; self; and team
Productivity profiling sheds light on how people get the job done
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  • September 11, 2020, 05:30

Companies have been using personality profiling to get insights into their employees for decades, but now UK-based productivity specialists Smarter No(...)

With the right approach to remote working, it is possible to minimise the downsides and to have happy, productive teams. Photograph: iStock
How to make remote working run smoothly for employers and employees
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  • May 1, 2020, 05:00

Canadian-born song writing royalty Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi lyrics contain the often-quoted line that “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s(...)

Some managers resent staff taking holidays and make them pay for it by dumping a pile of work on top of them as soon as they return. Photograph: iStock
Post-holiday blues? Give yourself time to catch up
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  • August 17, 2018, 05:45

It’s the week before your holidays and your productivity soars. The exhilarating prospect of downtime spurs you to move mountains and you leave the of(...)