The Harvard Business Review’s Reid Blackman summed it up earlier this year, as the pandemic was forcing many to work from home, and many businesses to ramp up their monitoring efforts: It makes sense that if you’ve created a culture of surveillance at your business, you’re implying that if employees aren’t meeting your activity standards they’ll be in trouble. More time is taken off in the long run when employees get burnt out or give their colleagues their colds and flu. Presenteeism hammers more nails into the productivity coffin because, as Vitality points out, it has a snowball effect. Just because your staff are at work doesn’t mean it’s benefiting the business. Why? Because they’re reducing the amount of revenue you get for an hour of labor and aren’t performing to the level they’re being paid for. If an employee is ‘physically at work’ but performing worse than usual, they’re actually putting a serious dent in productivity. Taken together, these definitions make the relationship between the two much clearer. Productivity – and labor productivity more specifically – is defined as ‘the amount of real gross domestic product.’ (or in this case, revenue for your business) ‘.produced by an hour of labor.’ Even though the employee may be physically at work, they may not be able to fully perform their duties and are more likely to make mistakes on the job.’ Presenteeism is defined as ‘the problem of employees who are not fully functioning in the workplace because of an illness, injury or other condition. Here’s a comparison of the Investopedia definitions of presenteeism and productivity: According to research by wellbeing experts Vitality, 35 productive days are lost to presenteeism every year. It may seem counterintuitive, but you and your business would be better off if they didn’t make the commute, or if they don’t log on to work from home.Īs it turns out, presenteeism does more damage than its scarier sounding opposite, absenteeism. The technology exists to give you that information, but making use of it could actually result in less productivity. That can put serious pressure on staff to show up even when they're not feeling well. You wouldn’t be alone, either – 62 percent of executives said their organizations were using tools to collect data on their teams. zimages/6/28571.gifCheck out s for more on IM and other collaboration technologies.With the wholesale adoption of remote work that’s recently taken place, it can be hard to resist the allure of monitoring employee activity. Trillian 3.0 also adds several bells and whistles, including an “Instant Lookup” tool that integrates with the Wikipedia online encyclopedia to offer real-time information based on text conversations. zimages/6/28571.gif Click here to read about America Online Inc.s move to correct a problem with its AIM service. Paid users also get access to plug-ins for connection to Jabber and Novell GroupWise Messenger, and video-chat support with enhanced logging capabilities.Ī free version remains in place, offering a single interface to connect to chat networks provided by America Online Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. Rendezvous support in Trillian 3.0 is available only for users who pony up $25 to purchase the application. In the new Trillian 3.0, the Rendezvous plug-in allows employees on the same LAN to automatically discover each other for messaging, file transfers and videoconferencing. The Rendezvous protocol, which is a key feature in Apples Mac OS X platform, allows users to set up a network without any configuration. With Rendezvous support, Trillian now will offer serverless IM capabilities for users on the same LAN. Looking to widen its appeal and find a niche in the small business market, Cerulean Studios has added support for Apples Rendezvous protocol to its popular Trillian instant messaging application.
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