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Why Email makes us less productive.

Email has become a huge distraction in today’s workplace and research is pointing to the performance and productivity costs. According to McKinsey & Company, the average US worker spends 28% of their week reading and answering emails and according Stanford psychology professor Clifford Na

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Social Media Can Improve Productivity

Employees see social media as key to improving workplace collaboration, according to a research report based on a survey of finance, HR and IT staff from 160 mid-market UK organisations, carried out to examine changing attitudes to the use of social media as a means of improving productivity. The s

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Rethinking Positive Thinking

We’ve all heard about the power of positive thinking but research published two weeks ago and conducted over 20 years suggests that positive thinking doesn’t actually help us as much as we suppose. In fact, across dozens of peer-reviewed studies examining the effects of positive v

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