You’re likely spending more and more time at home on your PC, but did you know that Windows 10 has your back and can help you stay productive during your busiest times? There are a lot of tricks built right into Windows itself that are designed with productivity in mind. From window tiling to window scaling to setting your favorite websites as progressive web apps and more, … [Read more...] about How to maximize your productivity in Windows 10
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How Zoom fatigue can affect your brainwave activity
If you’ve experienced Zoom fatigue in the past 12 months or so, you wouldn’t be the only one. Being on a video call requires you to focus more and work harder on processing non-verbal cues, which can be exhausting. In its 2021 Work Trend Index, Microsoft said 54pc of respondents to its global survey reported feeling overworked and 39pc felt exhausted. Now, the company’s Human … [Read more...] about How Zoom fatigue can affect your brainwave activity
Which of these WFH inventions would you choose?
We’ve all had to become tech whizzes over the past year to do our jobs. Now that you have a new set of skills under your belt, which could range from setting up a Zoom call to using the pomodoro technique, you might be eager to learn what else could be on the horizon for productivity and HR tech. In a recent project at Skynova, some humans and robots gave it a go. Using a … [Read more...] about Which of these WFH inventions would you choose?
What Working Too Much Does to Your Body
When these sorts of companies enact work-life policies, why don’t they seem to stick?Look at the reward structure. You have an OK base salary, but then the bonus is allocated based on how you’re stacking up at the end of the year against your peers. It’s like a tournament. It’s like a race. And all you know is that the people next to you, against whom you will be measured, are … [Read more...] about What Working Too Much Does to Your Body
We Have All Hit a Wall
“So many things seem like so much more work than my brain can possibly manage,” she said: sending routine emails, brushing her teeth after every meal, reading a novel. She has started drinking coffee from a mug that says, “Apathy Is the Best Whatever.”“It feels like the Kübler-Ross stages of grief, bouncing around you in a sort of circle. I feel like I’ve done all of them at … [Read more...] about We Have All Hit a Wall