Relaxed Productivity

In today’s workplace, employers and managers have to ensure the health of their employees. Keeping a check on of the levels of stress created by the workload and general work environment is vital.

Allowing stress levels to increase unmonitored will have a detrimental effect on staff, their morale and general health, and on the quality of work itself.

Some managers fear that by not putting their staff under pressure, output, general productivity, eventual income and revenue would decrease.

Although this is not always true, the other extreme, doesn’t always work either. Sometimes an overly relaxed work environment can make employees lackadaisical, unmotivated, and unwilling to do any work.

The problem lies in the common misconception of both ‘Productivity’ and ‘Relaxation’. In the mind of most, they associate ‘productivity’ with ‘hard work’ being very busy, and as a result, also being generally stressed.

In contrast, ‘relaxation’ is associated with being lazy, unproductive and passive. However, this doesn’t have to be the case.

It is however, completely possible to be both serenely relaxed and at the same time extremely productive.

This third option allows an increase in productivity and a decrease in stress at the same time. So you and your employees can be fully on the ball, aware and alert, while still remaining calm, clearheaded and comfortable in almost any situation.

Employees are sometimes reluctant to go to work, or seem to lack enthusiasm because ‘work’ implies having to do something you may not want to do.

The feeling of being forced to do something, almost against your will is, for most, not pleasant.

Whereas, an activity that is seen as ‘play’, which is comparatively voluntary and self-motivated, however hard it may be, will not induce stress, and will actually be something that staff will want to do, and be happy and enthused about.

They might even look forwards to coming to work and doing their job, and do it, both well and efficiently.

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