How to Manage Work Overload: Strategies for a Healthier Workplace
Work overload occurs when the demands placed on an employee or team exceed their available resources, leading to stress, burnout, and decreased productivity. We’ve all experience...
Blog posts written by Austin Connolly:
How to Survive and Thrive in an 80-Hour Work Week
It’s hard to believe that only a century ago, the 80-hour work week was the norm in the United States. Then, in 1926, the Ford Motor Company introduced the five-day, 40-hour work...
Effective Strategies for Monitoring Team Performance
Whether your team works in-office, remotely, or in an increasingly prominent hybrid work model, finding effective and ethical employee monitoring strategies is more critical than e...
Top Time Trackers for Virtual Assistants: Enhance Efficiency and Accountability
Virtual assistants (VAs) have a lot of responsibilities — and so do the people who hire them. With so much to keep track of, a time tracker for virtual assistants can help ensure...
How to Retain Workers: Proven Strategies for Employee Retention
Did you know turnover costs U.S. businesses upwards of $1 trillion annually? This stat alone should be reason enough for companies to prioritize learning how to retain workers. In...
Mastering the MIT Method: How to Identify and Prioritize Your Most Important Tasks
Productivity has no end, but many will agree that it has one definitive starting point: your most important tasks. Enter the MIT (Most Important Tasks) method. This time mana...
Enhancing Employee Morale and Productivity: Key Strategies and Insights
For most of us, our day-to-day lives are consumed by the relentless pursuit of productivity. However, we often overlook the direct correlation between employee morale and productiv...
The Ultimate Guide to Employee Productivity Formulas
According to Slack’s State of Work 2023 report, 71% of business leaders feel pressured by management to “squeeze more productivity out of their teams.” This push often leaves...
How to Create Effective Timesheet Reminders for Your Team
We get it. Timesheet reminders are a bit of a dry topic. However, these reminders are crucial for accurate, punctual timesheet submissions. This may not seem like a big deal,...
Boost Productivity with Day Theming
Bringing order to the chaos of our daily lives is a lifelong challenge, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t strategies we can implement. At Hubstaff, we’ve written about a wid...
Understanding and Overcoming the Planning Fallacy
We all know what it’s like to fall victim to the planning fallacy — an overly optimistic expectation of one’s own abilities that leads to overwork, cost overrun, and missed d...
How to Track Time Spent on Tasks: A Comprehensive Guide
Task completion doesn’t always equate to task success. Both the quality and efficiency of how tasks are crucial, so it’s important to track time spent on tasks. Tracking time e...
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