15 Tips for Boosting Your Productivity

Productivity: Is Timing Everything? Productivity Facts Every Employee Should Know Tuesday Packs the Biggest Productivity Punch If you need to work on a big project, save it for a Tuesday. On which day of the week are employees generally most productive?" 24% Monday 39% Tuesday 17% No Particular Day 14% Wednesday TUESDAYS 3% 3% Friday Thursday Tuesday consistently takes top honors for most productive day of the week: 60 2013* 50 2007" 2002* 40 1998* 1987* 30 20 10 Friday No Particular Day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday ZZZ Hard to focus on the task at hand? It must be Friday, when employees are least productive. Don't Schedule That 4 p.m. Meeting! Most employees have mentaly checked out from 4 pm. to 6 pm. In general, what is the least productive time of day for employees?"* 8 am. - 10 am. 10 am. - Noon Noon - 2 pm. 2 p.m. - 4 pm. 4 pm. - 6pm. No Particular Time 10% 4% 19% 28% 37% I 2% Try focusing on critical tasks in the morning for optimum productivity. Need a Reason to Take a Vacation? With their batteries and brains rechar ged, employees are generaly more productive after a vacation. Are employees more productive before or after a vacation?** 4% Don't know 14% No difference 51% After a vacation 31% Before a vacation Don't let your mind wander too much before the holdays. of executives say worker 34% productivity takes a hit the week before a major holiday.* The Productivity Power Play Tuesday DAY OF THE WEEK 10 a.m. - Noon on a Tuesday following a vacation is the most productive time and day for employees. Accountemps, the world's first and largest specialized staffing service for temporary accounting, finance and bookkeeping professionals, has been tracking workplace productivity trends for decades. *2013 Accountemps survey of more than 300 human rescurces managers at US. companies with 20 or more employees "Accountemps survey of 150 excutives from the nation's 1,000 largest companies. *2010 Accountemps survey of more than 1,000 senior managers at companies with 20 or more employees ***2004 Accountemps survey of 150 executives from the nation's 1,000 largest companies rh Accountemps A Robert Half Company www.accountemps.com % of Respondents