{"id":2234,"date":"2018-01-16T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T10:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2018-01-16T10:18:15","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T10:18:15","slug":"can-smes-improve-workplace-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/can-smes-improve-workplace-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"How can SMEs improve workplace productivity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several pieces of research published in recent days suggest that Britain\u2019s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly struggling with maintaining workplace productivity \u2013 but how can this be improved?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to a study carried out by STL Microsoft Training, many businesses are missing out on thousands of pounds due to \u2018unproductive\u2019 approaches to workplace challenges and day-to-day tasks.<\/p>\n<p>In its report, STL Microsoft Training estimated that the following employee habits and time management mistakes are costing SMEs up to \u00a3973,000 a year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poor prioritisation.<\/li>\n<li>A lack of lists.<\/li>\n<li>Social distractions.<\/li>\n<li>Not taking breaks.<\/li>\n<li>Regular \u2018unproductive\u2019 meetings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The group argued that SMEs need to take a more organised approach to managing their workforce in order to improve workplace productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Such an approach may include ensuring that each employee has a clear, prioritised breakdown of what they need to achieve, takes regular breaks, is free from social distractions such as mobile phones and only attends project-specific meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, separate research carried out by Opus Energy has found that SME productivity issues seem to be significantly more common in certain areas of the country.<\/p>\n<p>London, the West Midlands and North East England all ranked poorly on Opus Energy\u2019s \u2018productivity scale\u2019, with Yorkshire, the South West and South East England all faring much better.<\/p>\n<p>The organisation suggested that struggling SMEs ought to explore the following opportunities in the workplace in a bid to improve productivity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flexible working.<\/li>\n<li>Increasing employee wages.<\/li>\n<li>Offering team incentives and perks to raise morale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several pieces of research published in recent days suggest that Britain\u2019s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly struggling with maintaining workplace productivity \u2013 but how can this be improved?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}