Increasing Workplace Productivity

How to work out how to be more productive – Fruitfultime review

Posted on 21. Jan, 2009 by admin in Monitoring productivity, Workplace productivity tips

The folks at Fruitfultime have released their next piece of software to help you figure out where the hours and days disappear without you really noticing.

FruitfulTime ProductivityMeter Personal Edition (catchy title guys) automatically tracks your PC activity (note it’s Windows only) so that over time you can get a clearer picture of how you spend your time and adjust your activities accordingly.

Once installed the software sits in the background and keeps a Big Brother eye on what you are up to – including the split between idle and active time and then splits the active time between the applications you are using, which sites you’ve browsed and for how long.The important thing of course is not to just look at the pretty graphs, but to actually do something about the information you are seeing and see how you can be increasing workplace productivity.  You can view reports for the last day, week, month or a user defined block of time and if you add tags to your applications and list of sites, you can get get more granular in your reporting.

The other interesting decision they’ve made is to keep your activity data stored locally, as opposed to online, ensuring that data is always available and there’s no security dangers. This is in contrast to some of their competitors, like Rescuetime (check out that review here) who choose to store and analyse their data online.

For more advanced users the timesheeting functionality is a real added bonus too – more and more we are going to become more accountable for our time and if your business doesn’t have a timesheet solution now – it won’t be long…!
The program is free for personal use with a business version being launched in Q1 of 2009.

You can download it here.

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