The “Goldilocks Zone” for Productivity: Taking Breaks for Office Workers improves their Productivity!
By | Nicolas BEHBAHANI | Global People Analytics Leader @ Future of Work with HR KPIs expertise
📣 Making time for breaks during the workday improves employee productivity and well-being, and yet half of all desk workers say they rarely or never take breaks.
💡 There is indeed a “Goldilocks Zone” for employee productivity: more than two hours a day is the tipping point at which a majority of workers say they’re spending “too much time” in meetings.
🧠 Employees who log off at the end of the workday register 20% higher productivity scores than those who feel obligated to work after hours.
One in five (20%) employees don’t have enough time to connect with coworkers, and this problem is most pronounced among more junior employees, according to a new interesting research published by Slack using data 📊 from a survey administrated by Qualtrics 10,333 full time employees (desk workers) in the US, Australia, France, Germany, Japan and the UK between August 24 an Sept 15,2023.
✅The “Goldilocks Zone” for productivity
Researchers found that on average, the ideal amount of focus time for desk workers is around four hours a day, and more than two hours a day in meetings is the tipping point at which a majority of workers feel overburdened by meetings.
Also employee who say they spend too much time in meetings are more than twice as likely to feel they don’t have enough time to focus.
Workers are struggling to balance their time say:
🕘 1 in 4 they spend too much time in meetings
🕔 1 in 4 say they spend too much time in email
🕧 1 in 5 don’t have enough time to connect with coworkers
