The piece doesn’t go into great detail on this, but I think it’s not unreasonable to draw a line from this study back to my work on deliberate rest. a marketer would indicate social platforms like Facebook as “productive”.) The way we decided the most productive, is by taking the people who had the 10% highest ratio of use of “productive” applications for their line of work (each individual can have different apps they consider productive, ex. What we’ve done is isolated the top 10% most productive employees, and analysed their computer-use behaviour during one workday. On Twitter, she explained that the data-set about 3900 people, using DeskTime over 15 months. This gives us a ton of information that we can use to analyse the computer-use behaviour, through the spectrum of what the users themselves consider to be productive. In another post, Gifford explains the method behind the survey:Īs a time-tracking, productivity app, DeskTime collects substantial amounts of daily computer-using behaviour (5.5 million logged records per day). But alas, such are the times in which we live. Now, the only thing tragic about this is that it’s surprising, that the idea that we might work better when we take regular breaks isn’t common knowledge. Turns out, the secret to retaining the highest level of productivity over the span of a workday is not working longer-but working smarter with frequent breaks. The employees with the highest productivity ratings, in fact, don’t even work eight-hour days. Specifically, the most productive people work for 52 minutes at a time, then break for 17 minutes…. Turns out, what the most productive 10% of our users have in common is their ability to take effective breaks.
Using time-tracking and productivity app DeskTime, we’ve been able to study the habits of the most productive employees-and pinpoint the working flow that leads to that incredible ability to get things done.Īnd the trick might surprise you. Julia Gifford, a writer and consultant who ran the study, explains how she did it: A study recently conducted by the Draugiem Group, a Latvian IT company, provides another data-point about the important of rest in a good day’s work.
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