Freedom to surf: workers more productive if allowed to use the i. Media Release, Thursday 2 April 2009 Surfing the net at work for pleasure actually increases our concentration levels and helps make a more productive workforce, according to a new University of Melbourne study. Dr Brent Coker, from the Department of Management and Marketing, says that workers who engage in ‘Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing’ (WILB) are more productive than those who don’t. “People who do surf the Internet for fun at work - within a reasonable limit of less than 20% of their total time in the office - are more productive by about 9% than those who don’t,” he says. “Firms spend millions on software to block their employees from watching videos on YouTube, using social networking sites like Facebook or shopping online under the pretense that it costs millions in lost productivity, however that’s not always the case.” According to the study of 300 workers, 70% of people who use the Internet at work engage in WILB.
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We’re covering from application launchers, GTD (Getting Things Done) to design utilities that can help you focus on what’s important: create. 1. aLunch aLunch1 is a very lightweight but powerful application that does what it is supposed to do and nothing more: a handy launcher that runs from within the menu bar.
aLunch helps you get all your apps organized and get an uncluttered dock. 2. Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 applications – Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Fireworks and Flash – have an Extension panel that connects directly to Kuler2, the web-hosted application for generating color themes. But you can also access the Kuler site from its own standalone application to get more flexibility. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Online Project Management Tools Web2.0 Style. If you owe a small company or working as freelancer you have to manage your project, task, clients, invoice etc. it is a really a tuff task if you have not proper project management tool.
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