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The technology industry’s love of buzzwords is no secret. The pursuit of the “next big thing” means that every year a new spat of words enters the lexicon. Big data. The internet of things. Digital ...

Sometime over the past eighteen months, the newness and novelty of remote work wore off as the everyday elements just became normal. But as Zoom meetings and team virtual happy hours seeped into ...

While employers remain concerned about remote work’s impact on employee productivity, many employers do not measure or reward productivity — and some that do largely leave it up to manager discretion, ...

You may have heard the phrase “what gets measured gets managed.” So when we want something done, we slap a metric on it and manage toward that metric. Seems reasonable enough, right? It’s not, though.

Improving labor productivity is one of the biggest challenges for the hospitality industry. Earlier research conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found restaurants operating at 74 to 78 ...

There’s an unhealthy obsession with companies looking for a way to measure developer productivity. Over the last 20 years, I’ve led multidisciplinary technology teams across some of Australia’s ...

One of the most challenging things about the shift over the last eight months to working remotely is how we all measure productivity. In the past, managers could often see exactly what an employee was ...

About 10 years ago, I wrote a blog post called “Can we measure developer productivity?” In it, I discussed the many objective attempts that had been made to do it — lines of code, function points, etc ...

Productivity is computed through the comparison of total units of output within an economy to the total units of input within an economy. Productivity is considered an important measure of an ...

While the government has clearly stated its belief that productivity matters, greatly, for both rebuilding growth in the ...