Productivity Archives

Structuring your work day according to whether you fit the lark, owl or middle bird chronotype helps lead to peak performance.

End the Zoom gloom: Five ways to make meetings better in 2022

Carl Gough

15 February 2022

Videos off. Videos on but openly ignoring the meeting underway. Turning up late. Leaving abruptly. It’s time to brush up on modern meeting manners!

Is now the time for Australia to embrace the four-day work week?

John Quiggin

14 February 2022

A four-day work week is well within the realm of economic feasibility. But how much, if anything, would it cost in terms of lost production and lower wages?

Why investing in clean indoor air would give us lasting benefits beyond the pandemic

Peter Martin

10 February 2022

If performance and education matter we ought to be treating clean air as an investment in productivity, over and above its undoubted benefit in containing the spread of COVID-19.

A 10-step strategy to making meetings more productive

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This book extract from FlexAbility: How high achievers beat burnout and find freedom in an overworked world explores why businesses need to stop the "meeting madness".

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Three time investments that will pay out big next Christmas

Jenna Polson

18 January 2022

A time investment is when you can spend a little time today to receive a bigger payoff in the future. Here are three that you'll be thrilled to cash in next year.