The company Adobe has carried out a study entitled “The future of digital work” in which it has asked more than 1,000 US small business employeesUK, Australia, India and Japan whether technology helps or hinders small business productivity.
And he wanted to focus on whether it helps or complicated by socioeconomic factors such as inflation, recession, layoffs and general malaise. The answers are interesting.
what is productivity
A very interesting fact from the Adobe study is that almost half of the respondents stated that associate “being productive” with doing work that has more impact (45%) compared to generating revenue for the company or even doing more work or doing it faster.
This leads to just over half of small business employees taking personal responsibility for their productivity at work. This study concludes that 47% of small business employees make an effort to be in the office 100% of the time. Much more than the figure in large companies (37%).
Stress against productivity
On the other hand, stress factors are a great source of concern for large companies (72% of employees say so). more than 60% of those surveyed state that their productivity it is affected by external economic concerns such as a possible recession and inflation. Top 3 Concerns for Small Business Employees are the high cost of living, the possibility of inflation and wage disparityin that order.
The reality for small businesses is that external stressors and workload continue to affect their productivity. More than 88% of SMEs state that the Poor technologies are harming the productivity of your company.
The Adobe report says that the cost of bad technology is not only in hours, but also in motivation. Nearly a quarter (21%) of small business employees says he will complain to his boss about bad work technologiesand the same number of workers (22%) will consider resigning in the next six months due to poor work technology.
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Via | Adobe