Digital Guardrails
Brain-Based Solutions to Boost Employees’ Productivity & Wellbeing
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The pandemic has created a unique opportunity for organisations to establish more productive work arrangements, congruent with how the brain and body works best online.
There’s tremendous opportunity for organisations that address employees’ and teams’ digital wellbeing and improve employee focus. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) found that companies in the sectors analysed could potentially gain as much as $1.2 trillion in untapped employee output with designing optimal work arrangements that tackle employee distraction.
Consider what your organisation could gain if you developed productive hybrid work strategies based on brain-science. That’s exactly what I can do for you.
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
published data from a study commissioned by Dropbox in 2020.
They found that:
28%
of working hours in knowledge work are lost to distractions in the US
an average of
581 hours
per knowledge worker annually is lost to distractions
disruptions translate to US companies losing
$391
billion annually in lost productivity in the sectors analyzed
or roughly
28%
in salary costs per knowledge worker
among the most taxing sources of distraction were face-to-face interruptions from colleagues about work-related tasks
34%
followed by checking, reading and responding to work-related email
29%
peripheral office distractions like phones ringing and background chatter
23%
mind wandering
23%
and work-related meetings
21%
Since the pandemic, research indicates that remote work options have meant that:
almost one-fifth of respondents check email every few minutes and 70% check it at least once an hour.
95% of knowledge workers want flexibility around when they work and 78% want flexibility around where they work.
42% reported spending more time on deeply focused work. Eliminating office-based distractions is the second-highest reason for greater engagement with work, after relief from commuting.
BOOST YOUR
ORGANISATION’S PERFORMANCE
by applying neuroproductivity principles to hybrid work practices.
What your organisation will be getting through my advisory services:
Focused knowledge workers who can tame their tech distractions (watch your productivity markers soar)
Productive virtual and/or hybrid meeting practices across the organisation
Employees who are thriving in the digital workplace.
Employees whose physical health and mental wellbeing are protected by practical solutions regarding the use of technology from a professional (and personal) level
Improved employee engagement as their work practices create firm boundaries between their work and home lives
A decline in the usage of email and communication tools and an increase asynchronous technologies so your employees really can work anywhere, anytime (without eroding productivity, or creating project bottlenecks)
“Focus is the engine of knowledge work,”
according to Michael Gold, managing editor from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Increasingly, knowledge workers’ professional lives are fragmented by continual digital distractions that increase stress, increase error rates and inhibit them from achieving peak-performance.
While the costs to organisations in lost productivity and compromised wellbeing are substantial, there is also huge upside to helping employees bolster their focus. Those organisations that create sustainable digital practices will leverage the myriad of benefits offered by technology and remote work practices, whilst simultaneously driving productivity and employee wellbeing.
INVESTMENT
To ensure that organisations make lasting change, the six-step process is strongly recommended. Co-creating a guiding principles document and culturally embedding the changes are critical for organisations to achieve long-term results.
My fee represents my personal commitment to the project. I offer a fixed fee to ensure that we’re both satisfied with the final product and outcome. So feel free to arm me with as many policy documents, load me with survey data, equip me with as many meetings and as much feedback as required. I’m here to ensure your employees thrive in the digital world and will do all I can to ensure this outcome.
Let’s start a conversation to determine if this is something that your organisation is interested in considering.
Ready to start?
I’d love to help your team to thrive online.
PLEASE NOTE:
Dr Kristy requires a minimum of two weeks notice to make any date changes to focus groups, meetings or presentations.
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All prices quoted exclude GST.
Prices are based on site visits, if required, being in Sydney. Additional travel costs are required for site visits in other locations.
Payment terms are 50% deposit upon contract signing and 50% on completion (14 day terms).
BIO
Having personally experienced how our always-on digital culture is compromising people’s wellbeing and is counter to optimal and sustainable performance, award-winning researcher and speaker Dr Kristy Goodwin is on a mission to promote employee wellbeing and bolster workplace productivity in an always-on digital world.
As one of Australia’s digital wellbeing and productivity experts, she shares practical brain-based hacks to tame tech habits and the latest evidence- based strategies to decode the neurobiology of peak performance in the technological era.
Senior business leaders and HR executives from the country’s top organisations engage Dr Kristy to help them promote employee digital wellbeing and performance. Her roster of clients includes Apple, Westpac, Deutsche Bank, Bank of Queensland, DLA Piper, Scentre Group, Randstad, the Reserve Bank of Australia, Cuscal, State Street, National Broadband Network and Foxtel.
Dr Kristy has worked with some of the biggest corporations in Australia:
