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Efficiency and Productivity
It took me awhile to figure it out but I think i got the knack of it. Efficiency is my perception of spendign my time on efficient VS non efficient tasks. Productivity is measuring myself against everyone else in RT.
The second may not be as useful as the first sicne we have differnet ideas of what means productive. Still, if you score inthe 80s in both you must THINK you're doign something right.
Reading my email is productive only when work related. Reading email is non productive when I'm deleting spam or the plethora of FYI forwards I don't want to receive. Considering email is where I spend most of my time I am not sure I can adequately assess email in terms of efficiency.
Still the tool is good . . . to make the little graph more useful, perhaps it shoudl skip weekends - but then we're back to "week starts on what day?" Bottom line - if my work pattern makes it less useful then I do not use it.
I can see in a large organization setting the same goals and productivity for everyone then you can compare to "rest of MY team"....now THAT would be useful.
The second may not be as useful as the first sicne we have differnet ideas of what means productive. Still, if you score inthe 80s in both you must THINK you're doign something right.
Reading my email is productive only when work related. Reading email is non productive when I'm deleting spam or the plethora of FYI forwards I don't want to receive. Considering email is where I spend most of my time I am not sure I can adequately assess email in terms of efficiency.
Still the tool is good . . . to make the little graph more useful, perhaps it shoudl skip weekends - but then we're back to "week starts on what day?" Bottom line - if my work pattern makes it less useful then I do not use it.
I can see in a large organization setting the same goals and productivity for everyone then you can compare to "rest of MY team"....now THAT would be useful.
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Inappropriate?Guy, you're a mind reader!
The productivity score gets a LOT more interesting with a more focused set to compare to. A team of 20 software developers, for example. Or 30 support professionals. Or whatever type of knowledge worker you work with (the more homogeneous the group, the more interesting the data, IMO).
Which is why we're introducing our biz offering soon! (http;//www.rescuetime.com/forbiz ) - We've gotten a ton of people expressing interest in that. We think we can provide a lot of value there without creating an evil "spy on your employees" app (there are plenty of those).
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Inappropriate?I know that this may be either too hard to implement, or you want to keep it to the business version.
But I agree with Guy that the productivity would be great to compare to people. I was wondering if you know in your profile, if it could compare to other people who have selected the same/similar type of occupation. Just generally of course, not specific people like in a team situation.
Personally I am a student so It would be great to be able to compare to other Students, but then also Engineering Students if there were any. It would mean that people would probably have to fill out the occupation part.
But yeah, what are the chances that this would be able to be implemented into the free version? Coz it would be great for motivation, or just to compare with people. The problem is with the student that some students spend 3 days per week at uni, when others like me spend 5 so there would need to be some way to separate them for it to work effectively.
Anyway the efficiency, productivity is really good. Great job!
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Inappropriate?Thanks!
We are working out our assorted plans, but it looks likely that we'll offer small groups for free. So fairly soon, you could get a bunch of smiliar friends together for a free group. We're also toying with the idea of public groups-- ones that are free and "themed" (like "engineering students", for example). That will probably be a little bit further down the road.
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Inappropriate?You are good, very fast reply.
Thank you very much.
I would be extremely ecstatic with the small groups and public groups. I think the public ones would be a fantastic idea too (probably more useful for me), but what limitation will be imposed to try to get businesses using the business version rather then using the free one for business use?
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