MetaFilter posts tagged with work and productivity

"Boss, this is good for the company!"

Bango Skank — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:45:16 -0800

A new university of Melbourne study finds that surfing the web at work can actually boost rather than hurt productivity, even when the content is not work related. Finally I have an excuse for why I am "always looking at that blue site."

Interestingly, I'm reading Lifehacker while posting this

jbickers — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:29:30 -0800

"Multitasking messes with the brain in several ways. At the most basic level, the mental balancing acts that it requires—the constant switching and pivoting—energize regions of the brain that specialize in visual processing and physical coordination and simultaneously appear to shortchange some of the higher areas related to memory and learning. We concentrate on the act of concentration at the expense of whatever it is that we’re supposed to be concentrating on." Also: Shifting mental gears costs time How not to multi-task The multi-tasking virus Multi-tasking and driving The myth of multi-tasking Multi-tasking in the toilet

If Wasting Time is Time Well Spent, My Time on Metafilter is All Worthwhile

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:01:27 -0800

"Wasting time gets a bad rap", says Lisa Belkin in today's NYTimes, who argues that time often considered "unproductive" or "wasted" in today's workaholic culture is actually time well spent- "Over the years I have come to see that the hours away from the writing are the time when the real work gets done." Readers seem to agree.

hazyjane — Fri, 15 Jun 2001 02:29:44 -0800

A study from researchers at the University of Alberta concludes that unhappy workers perform their tasks at the same rate as happy workers, but with about half as many errors (more inside).