Owls More Productive Than Larks

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Employee Productivity, executive fitness, time management

I often use the old analogy of owls and larks when it comes to a discussion on how we manage ourselves- before we manage time. Some of us by inclination are larks- early morning people who are at our best and brightest early in the day but tend to fade away as the day becomes longer. Others are owls- night birds who are uncomfortable with too early a start in the mornings but can plug on until very late at night.

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WILB Is Good For Your Employees

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Employee Productivity, internet usage, WILB

One comes across new acronyms every other day. Recently I learnt of one more which was new- to me. WILB or Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing.  A new study that has caught the attention of the blogging world in general and those associated with employee productivity in particular comes from the University of Melbourne.

Fighting Fractured Attention

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A Step A Day, Communication, email, Employee Productivity

Here’s one more article that confirms that “fractured attention” – getting distracted at work due to email or IM, amongst other causes- is not only on the increase but is causing organisations quite a bomb.

Basex estimates that in the United States more than $ 650 billion in productivity is lost annually because of unnecessary interruptions- most of them mundane. The firm says a big chunk of that cost comes from the time people take to recover from an interruption and get back to work.

Employee Productivity in India’s IT Majors

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Employee Productivity, India's IT majors

India’s IT majors face a challenge of employee productivity says an article in the Economic Times. The Big 3, TCS, Infosys & Wipro added as many as 57,554 people in 2007.

However, rising staff costs and the appreciation of the rupee, amongst other factors, have affected their average employee productivity. As far as turnover per employee is concerned, only Wipro showed an improved performance from the same period last year.

The average turnover per employee for the 3 companies dropped marginally to Rs 5.75 lakh in the October-December 2007 quarter, from Rs 5.79 lakh in the year-ago period.
Wipro’s average turnover per employee rose to Rs 6.80 lakh in the third quarter of this fiscal, from Rs 6.13 lakh in the year-ago quarter. However, TCS and Infosys recorded a dip in their average per employee turnover to Rs 5.58 lakh and Rs 4.99 lakh, from Rs 5.85 lakh and Rs 5.35 lakh respectively.

The average per employee net profit of the three companies also declined to Rs 1.23 lakh in the latest quarter from Rs 1.30 lakh in year-ago period.

The combined net profit of the three companies rose 19.1 per cent to Rs 3,411.67 crore in Q3 of this fiscal from Rs 2,864.50 crore a year ago.

Their total revenue rose 25.4 per cent from Rs 12,679.73 crore to Rs 15,904.18 crore during the quarter under review.

At the same time, the total employee strength of the three firms stood at 2,76,662 people at the end of December 2007, against 2,19,108 in December 2006.