There is a fine line between measuring employee productivity and micromanaging your staff. Here are some less meddlesome ways to track and measure employee productivity without negatively impacting team morale.
Measure performance, not time. There’s no shortage of time tracking software available today that enables you to measure the amount if time it takes employees to complete a task. However, these tools are unable to measure the quality of their work. Performance should be measured by tasks completed and quality of work, not the amount of time it took to complete them.
Employ end-of-day updates. Instead of having employees log their activity and track their time, have them simply send an email at the end of each day updating you on their progress.
Focus on deadlines, and only deadlines. Rather than tracking time spent on particular tasks or projects, just keep track of deadlines. Your productivity chart needs only two columns: ‘met deadline’ and ‘failed to meet deadline.’
