Productivity Lab

The Productivity Lab consists of a dedicated team of experts in workforce productivity, information technology and data science who can help you better leverage data around your people, processes and technology — the three main areas in which you can unlock productivity potential.

Posts by Productivity Lab

Report cover for the 1H 2024 version of ActivTrak Productivity Lab’s Productivity Benchmarks Report.

Productivity Benchmarks Report 1H 2024: Cross-Industry & Location Insights

Get the latest productivity benchmarks. Learn why your company needs them & how to use productivity benchmarks to gauge your team’s efficiency.

Sept. 17, 2024 / 5 min read

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2024 State of the Workplace: Emerging Technology & Employee Engagement Trends

Discover the latest workplace trends in the 2024 State of the Workplace report. Explore findings on productivity, well-being, and emerging technology.

Mar. 28, 2024 / 2 min read

Holiday Essentials: Best Books, Podcasts and Articles for a More Productive 2024

Discover the best books, podcasts, and articles to help you make 2024 a more productive year with holiday essentials. Learn how to make the most of your time with these expert tips!

Dec. 19, 2023 / 3 min read

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Prioritizing Privacy with ActivTrak: The Employeeware Alternative

Learn how ActivTrak’s unique features and functionality are ethically and strategically designed to serve as employeeware, not bossware.

Aug. 25, 2023 / 4 min read

Essential Productivity Resources: Best Books, Podcasts & Blogs for This Summer

Looking to become more productive this summer? Check out our list of essential productivity resources including articles, books and podcasts.

July 07, 2023 / 3 min read

Summer Reading List: Person reading on the beach

Summer Essentials: Best Books, Podcasts, Blogs on Productivity

Check out the Productivity Lab’s Summer Essential Reading list where we’ve compiled the best list of books, articles and podcasts for your summer down time.

June 29, 2022 / 4 min read

Legal Services Industry Benchmarks & Insights — How Do You Measure Up?

Read about productivity benchmarks for legal services compiled over a six month period comprising 446,020 hours across 892 anonymized employees

June 06, 2022 / 1 min read

Financial Industry Benchmarks & Insights — How Do You Measure Up?

We've compiled a list of productivity benchmarks for the Financial Services industry and analyzed data from 11,215,560 hours across 11,252 financial services employees to generate a benchmark guide for productive time.

May 03, 2022 / 2 min read

Redefining Productivity Calls for Redefining its Metrics

While claims of productivity gains dominate headlines, they often fail to recognize the staggering increase in employee burnout, drastic drops in employee engagement, emerging workplace biases, and disproportionate impacts across employee groups.

Feb. 16, 2022 / 6 min read

2022 State of the Workplace: Productivity & Engagement Trends

Discover effective strategies and habits to maintain productivity and well-being while working from home in challenging times.

Feb. 08, 2022 / 4 min read

The Power of Productivity Baselines

As companies finalize plans for the future, there is an opportunity to collect data around productivity and workforce behavior.

Nov. 17, 2021 / 5 min read

The Facebook outage impacted productivity, but not in the way you may think…

A deeper understanding of how and when work gets done can help your organization prepare for, reduce the risk, and mitigate future outages of any kind.

Oct. 21, 2021 / 3 min read