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Human Resources
May 2, 2024
Did you know that context switching can slash productivity by as much as 80%?
We’ve asked around 100 PMs about what generates the highest pain in their teams and the answer no. 1 was context switching with more than 50% of respondents pointing out that teams really suffer from constant interruptions.
August 20, 2021
Why data-informed cross-team sync may be the key for successful hybrid evolution?
One of the biggest challenges while working in a hybrid environment is staying innovative and sharing knowledge. Why is that? Hybrid teams tend to create silos, which results in less peer-to-peer interactions with people from various teams across the organization. Science suggests that this can have a negative impact on a company’s innovativeness.
August 15, 2021
Problems solved by Network Perspective in numbers
65% of workers said that meetings keep them from completing their own work.
August 13, 2021
What companies are doing in passive listening and what results they observe?
What companies are doing in passive listening and what results they observe?
August 1, 2021
Meeting behaviors to avoid, meeting metrics to track
While meetings are a vital element of effective collaboration, if there are too many of them, they can become overwhelming. In America alone, 11 million meetings take place every day, out of which a third is considered unproductive. This lost productivity costs companies $37 billion annually. What’s worrying is that the switch to remote working caused by the pandemic has doubled the number of meetings from 7 to 14 a week.
January 19, 2023
What if collaboration data could work for your team?
What if collaboration data could work for your team?
January 6, 2023
What if collaboration data could elevate your business?
What if collaboration data could elevate your business?
February 24, 2022
Key hybrid reality metrics – active and passive listening data
Key hybrid reality metrics – active and passive listening data
February 17, 2022
Pre hybrid metrics – selective passive listening data
Pre hybrid metrics – selective passive listening data
February 6, 2022
Pre hybrid metrics – key active listening data
Pre hybrid metrics – key active listening data
December 20, 2021
What is Organizational Network Analysis (ONA)?
Network Perspective | Passive listening | What is ONA?
October 27, 2022
Best practices of cross-team collaboration: Spotify, GitLab, Google, and Facebook
While it’s important to implement the right cross-department collab practices, it’s equally important to keep track of how well your multidisciplinary teams perform. This can be achieved by using a platform like Network Perspective, which helps you understand which cross-functional teams are doing a great job to maximize business outcomes, and where the processes call for refinements.
September 29, 2022
Workplace Analytics readings recommended by Network Perspective
An increasing number of businesses are now using Organization Network Analytics platforms to analyze employee data and improve their satisfaction and productivity levels. However, wrapping your head around Workplace Analytics might seem daunting at first. To give you a helping hand, we’ve listed a few introductory readings that will explain what ONA brings to the table.
August 25, 2022
How Salesforce is leveraging workplace analytics to drive the success of remote work?
The pandemic has changed the way companies approach employee experience, it’s no longer about fancy offices and endless perks. To be able to work effectively in a hybrid or remote model, organizations have to turn into data analytics. And this is the exact approach that Salesforce follows. Ernest Ng, VP, Global People Strategy and Analytics, Salesforce says that “Because we are growing at such a fast pace, as a company, workplace analytics is really key to helping us scale efficiently and effectively”.
February 23, 2022
Challenge #2 - Mitigating team’s collaboration overload / lack of collaboration
Last Friday, we held the second of six webinars for the tech industry.Challenge#2 | Mitigating team’s collaboration overload / lack of collaboration🎯 How big is the problem of too many meetings & work interruptions?🎯 How does it impact burnout, well-being, absenteeism, and attrition?🎯 What can be done to mitigate the workload in an evidence-based way?
January 25, 2022
Hybrid Evolution & Great Attrition addressed in a data-informed way - webinar series
We are starting a series of 6 webinars dedicated to HR, organization development, and work tech decision makers from IT companies. Hybrid Evolution & Great Attrition addressed in a data-informed way - webinar series
July 4, 2021
How to build a deep work routine for a team and separate it from context switching and multitasking?
Making sure that your team has enough time i.e. at least 2 hours a day for deep work and reducing context switching is necessary to maintain high productivity. Jumping between tasks results in 80% productivity loss, which has a detrimental effect on employee performance. One of the best ways to make sure that your employees have enough time for deep work is by creating routines and tracking data. For this reason, we recommend using a platform like Network Perspective that will give you access to invaluable insights about how your teams work.
August 17, 2021
How to find the best time for deep work for your team? 4 easy tips to boost your productivity in a data-informed way
The ability to focus on cognitively demanding tasks is the most important team productivity factor. In fact, as noticed by Cal Newport, “deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep – spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way”. In addition, what we’ve seen during the pandemic is that a (wrongly executed) remote work model can have a detrimental effect on our teams’ productivity levels.
July 8, 2021
How do tech companies face hybrid work? eBay, Dropbox, Intercom, Uber, and other cases
Operating in a hybrid model appears to be a perfect compromise between full-time, office based work and the convenience of working from home. That being said, ‘hybrid’ means different things for different companies. For some, it’s a way to use up their current office lease before a 100% move to a remote work model. Meanwhile for others, it’s more about creating spaces for collaborative tasks and integration, and reserving in-house for individual, deep focus work.
July 15, 2021
Top HR challenges at tech companies – our findings at Network Perspective
HR leaders and directors have always been exposed to various challenges. However, after switching to remote work their number has either grown or current challenges gained in strength. We have talked to HR leads in tech organizations to identify the current problems they’re facing as well as how workplace analytics can help in tackling them.
August 10, 2021
How to foster a high performing team dynamic in a data-informed way?
Successful companies no longer evaluate their teams through the prism of efficiency. As proven by a number of successful companies, including Intercom, GitLab, Boeing, and General Electric, the spotlight should be set on performance, as it better suits today’s organizational structures. In order to thrive, it’s essential to build High Performance Teams.
July 25, 2021
Employee engagement surveys - what are they great at and what are they missing?
Despite serving as a real eye-opener for many organizations, customer engagement surveys come with their own sets of limitations. In order to give valuable insights and improvement ideas, they need to be paired up with People Analytics tools (i.e., a mix of active listening & passive listening employee engagement methods).
November 3, 2021
Why is rethinking collaborative social learning vital in a hybrid world?
Social collaborative learning has always been an important asset for businesses – however, the way we approach peer 2 peer collaboration has changed due to COVID and the introduction of hybrid work. Despite having the right digital tools that offer great social learning possibilities, employees fail to engage due to digital overload.
July 19, 2021
Which trends in workplace analytics tools will dominate in 2021?
Workplace analytics measures employee behaviors and analyzes them to improve people and business performance. If implemented right, it might become a great business advantage for companies operating in the New Normal. Nowadays, the main challenge is to keep a sense of belonging among employees who work remotely. Workplace analytics gives leaders access to data linked with productivity, engagement, turnover, etc. This, in turn, helps them keep their employees happy rather than isolated. They are able to better lead their teams.
July 21, 2021
Future Proof People Leaders – introduction to pivoting people leadership capability building
To ensure that their people leadership capability building strategy is future-proof, organizations will need to focus on two areas – embracing a selective-intensive people leadership approach and knowing how to access and analyze team data to make more agile-based decisions.
July 12, 2021
