The LexisNexis’ workplace productivity survey for 2010 has been released. The survey shows some really interesting results that are going to be shared now.

What is the workplace productivity survey?

It’s a survey conducted to learn how different employees and professionals feel about a lot of things that affect or impact their productivity in the workplace. This particular workplace productivity survey conducted by the LexisNexis, for 2010, reveals how information overload has impacted the workers and professionals in a workplace.
The survey for 2010 was conducted based on 5 countries – The USA, UK, China, Australia and South Africa, and the workers were asked how information overload impacted their productivity.

The results were quite amazing as a majority of them find information overload to be a global problem spreading like a viral disease. The employees not just feel their morale and performance is deteriorating due to information overload.
Of course, one can understand that information overload results in ambiguity which creates further problems of losing self confidence in official matters.

Workplace productivity survey question – How do you think information overload reduces the morale, performance and productivity of the workers?

Productivity is reduced because there is too much of information that confuses the employees and workers. They don’t know what to do or whom to follow.

Performance is a chain reaction that follows automatically after the loss of productivity. Both of them are directly proportional in a way.

If you’re not performing well, then you are definitely going to have a low morale and lose your self confidence. It’s going to create major problems for yourself and the company.

Management experts are trying their best to know the reason for information overload in many companies. It has to be stopped in some way. Thankfully, this survey has brought out some real substance of this issue which can’t be overlooked.

The workplace productivity survey from LexisNexis is a great eye opener for many companies and factories. If you’re reading this, spread the news to your colleagues and friends and make them aware of one of the factors that is creating low productivity.

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