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A look back at The Stoddart Review: the once and future guide to workplace productivity?

Workplace Insight

A Nicholas Bloom study from 2015 , before the Stoddart Review, also found that employees who opted into work-from-home policies saw a 13 percent lift in their productivity. While our emails and phones do follow us home, the lack of human interruptions and noise means the home working environment poses significantly fewer distractions.

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All work and some play: the rise of the ‘Bleisure’ travellers

Practically Perfect PA

There’s also something particularly poignant about sitting down to a table set for one in an unfamiliar restaurant amid the sound of strange accents and clinking glasses. We haven’t calculated our travel stat for 2016 as yet, but in 2015 Steve was on the road 171 days to 44 cities in 11 countries,’ she said. ‘I

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How To Learn Something New Every Day (And Actually Do Something With It)

Productivityist

As of 2015, there are over 150,000 active podcasts , so the choice really is vast. You don’t go to a restaurant and order “half a pound of burger”, you just order a burger. Pro tip : Set a reminder both as a notification on your phone and an email, to make it more likely you’ll catch it in time before your learning session.