How NOT to Increase Productivity

The common adage of “No pain, no gain” certainly rings true, even in the business sector. And this is precisely why there is a need to increase productivity, so that success can be achieved by any business. However, you should also keep in mind that when you are trying to increase the productivity of your workforce, there should still be some sort of balance maintained. After all, it is not every single day that all of your workers would be at their most productive. There will certainly be off-days for your employees, and even for you, as the proprietor here. And this is just one aspect you have to keep in mind here.Our work pace has definitely been increasing lately. Technological advancements that have been springing about, for the purpose of making our professional lives easier, are not quite successful in certain areas. Well, they have certainly made work a whole lot easier. For instance, gone are the days when you would have to literally wipe out mistakes on your typed documents with what is known as a liquid eraser. By hitting the backspace key of your keyboard, you can now make the necessary changes on your documents before you set out to printing them.However, you just cannot say that technological advancements have your work cut out for you already. Because technology has certainly made work easier for employees, then there would inevitably more tasks to be finished in a single workday. Work becomes more demanding because employers would come to expect more from their employees, since these advancements have features that make work easier. Thus, speed would definitely be picking up.Technological advancements actually make us readily available for any sort of task in any location at any given time. Let us take the professional life of a web content writer that is home-based. Instant messenger applications make the web content writer available for any given task. Just by pinging the writer, instant communication is established. Your work hours just might even go beyond the usual 8-5 work schedule. And because you are required to work more and more hours, multitasking becomes inevitable as well.At first bat, multitasking can actually make any employee feel productive. This is because it gives the notion of being able to achieve so many tasks of various natures within the same period of time. But then again, if you think about it, multitasking would just make you feel all the more pressured and drained at the end of the workday. But because we have this notion of achieving more in a shorter period of time, we cannot help but be attracted to do multitasking. In the end, there will definitely come a time when your body would demand you to slow down. Not just because of physical reasons here, but also because we become less and less efficient in the end. Remember the faster we run, the harder we work, the farther we drop as well. In short, increasing productivity would just be a short-term goal here.If you want to increase productivity in your employees, do not pressure them to do tasks that would take their toll in the long run. Just group your activities and tasks accordingly, and you will definitely help your employees in terms of making them more productive in the end.