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
• The Design of Everyday Things

Shout outs:

• Kayla Gottschalk
• Cal Newport
• Ilse Crawford

Metrikus

Metrikus is a building efficiency platform that helps organizations to make their spaces more efficient, creating positive change for occupants and the environment. Our cloud-based platform achieves this by aggregating data from multiple sources – whether it’s from IoT sensors, the Building Management System (BMS), or elsewhere – into one central place. And once we’ve helped you get your hands on the right data, our platform then transforms it to make it easier to analyze, compare and contextualize. 

 

Michael Grant is the co-founder and COO of Metrikus.