How To Make Your Workplace More Productive

Episode Summary: In the fourth episode of  The Measure Podcast by Metrikus, our host Michael Grant is joined by Omar Ramirez, Co-Founder of Collective who enable progress at the intersection of work and play.

Theme: Productivity

Episode highlights:

• Collective’s founding story (01.14)
• What do we mean by productivity in the workplace? (03.49)
• The importance of having metrics in place to measure productivity (04.56)
• Burnout since the pandemic (05.52)
• What can lead to burnout in the workplace? (07.58)
• Different ways to measure productivity (08.50)
• What makes an organization a great place to work? (13.03)
• The challenges with getting people back into the office (15.34)
• Top three things you need in an office for productivity (18.16)
• How important is workplace design? (24.12)
• Employee centric organizations and what this means (29.01)
• Biggest myth about productivity in the workplace (33.18)
• The relationship between employee experience and workplace experience (34.09)

Key Takeaways:

• “We surveyed workplace leaders when we were starting to gestate this idea, and found that 97% of those that replied were getting all of their future of work information from LinkedIn, which had us a little bit concerned because that's not necessarily the best source of all of your information.” - Omar
• “There's not one type of productivity, which is important for people to understand. It's different by industry, by segment, by team.” - Omar
• “The future forums recent polling shows from their Winter 2022 survey that levels of self-reported burnout are higher than they ever been during the course of the pandemic.” - Omar
• “I think it's very hard for large scale enterprise organizations to change their ways of working and to do that across 40,000, 50,000, 80,000 people requires a massive amount of change management and a massive amount of work.” - Omar
• “If you can make it a seamless experience, if you can make it a frictionless experience, and I'll keep using the word experience cause that's what I believe in, but like frictionless, seamless, and a truly enabled experience, then I think that you have hit the marks of what makes a workplace effective.” - Omar
• “Most employees need your assistance and they would probably appreciate some assistance in understanding how to be effective and how to be productive.” - Omar

Resources:

• Metrikus
• Metrikus Content Hub
• Miro
• Stripe
• Leesman Index
• Aldar Group