Productivity

One of the simplest ways to be more productive during working hours is to reduce the time you spend on maintenance tasks like checking your e-mail. These tasks break your concentration on more important work, and a recent study from UC Irvine suggests that checking your e-mail less often can help reduce stress and raise your level of concentration at work.

Everyone together makes collaboration easier, but does that make up for the distractions?

Paris' Orly Airport is the third to deploy systems that holograms of staff who make boarding or security announcements, increasing passenger face time without adding more faces.

What did we do before the Internet? We barely remember, but we think it had something to do with our jobs. Unless you work on a farm or in a coal mine, chances are that your job affords you constant access to Facebook, Twitter, Cute Overload, Fail Blog, and a zillion other productivity-destroying indulgences.

Got some a busy week ahead of you? If you're like me, you'll be depending on your favorite to-do app to get you through it. But task lists aren't the only way to track next actions, and in some cases they may not be the best. When you've got a short-term project to get through, a mind map can be a great way to track all of the tasks for a short-term project or a finite span of time--such as a trade show--on a single, visually intuitive page.

Eight ways to help speed progress on critical IT projects and make your department look good

IT employment job surveys say record numbers of IT workers plan to change jobs when they get the chance; taking a sick day is the next best thing.

A rundown of the most popular free and paid productivity apps on the Mac App Store.

With an ever-growing number of distractions that are fighting for your attention throughout the day, it’s more important than ever to be as productive as possible when you’re actually on the job. With that in mind, we’ve dug up the best Windows tricks in our arsenal and talked to some of the best minds in productivity to find 55 tips sure to help you get more work done with your PC in less time.

Useful, but not always obvious, tools to increase your personal productivity.

That mini-tower by your desk, that tablet by your bedside, the netbook you use on the commuter train, the 3G smartphone that's always within reach -- they're powerful, essential tools of the office, right? They do for white-collar productivity what the assembly line did for factory productivity -- isn't that obvious?

While some corporations have worried about the ability to secure and manage iPhones used by their workers, Forrester Research Inc. says three major companies are successfully deploying thousands of the Apple Inc. devices.