{"id":6998,"date":"2014-07-01T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alifeofproductivity.com\/?p=6998"},"modified":"2021-12-03T20:26:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T20:26:18","slug":"think-good-thing-productivity-taking-dip-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbailey.com\/think-good-thing-productivity-taking-dip-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"I think it&#8217;s a good thing productivity is taking a dip during the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='et-box et-tick'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Takeaway: <\/b>Studies show that productivity takes a dip during major events like the World Cup, but I think those studies are short-sighted since\u00a0events like the Word Cup can make\u00a0employees closer, which makes them more productive in the long-run. Deeper and more meaningful office relationships can make you 10x more likely to be engaged, 40% more likely to get a promotion, and 50% more satisfied with\u00a0your job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Estimated Reading Time: <\/b>2 minutes, 30s.<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7287 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/chrisbailey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/think-good-thing-productivity-taking-dip-world-cup_-1024x393.jpg\" alt=\"think-good-thing-productivity-taking-dip-world-cup_\" width=\"675\" height=\"259\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen quite a few articles over the last few weeks about how worker productivity is expected to dip during the World Cup\u2014Captivate Networks estimates that the U.S. will lose $1.68 billion in lost productivity, for example\u2014but I think that&#8217;s a good thing.<sup id=\"rf1-6998\"><a href=\"#fn1-6998\" title=\"Source:\u00a0&lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/world-cup-taking-bite-worker-productivity-111555370--abc-news-topstories.html&quot;&gt;https:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/world-cup-taking-bite-worker-productivity-111555370&#8211;abc-news-topstories.html&lt;\/a&gt;\" rel=\"footnote\">1<\/a><\/sup> A very good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why, in a nut: <b>Studies show that two of the strongest contributors to productivity and motivation at the office are\u00a0how much energy you invest into maintaining social bonds with your coworkers, and how deep your\u00a0office friendships are<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Three different studies found that:<sup id=\"rf2-6998\"><a href=\"#fn2-6998\" title=\"&lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/business\/industry-insights\/economics\/build-friendships-at-work-and-watch-productivity-soar&quot;&gt;http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/business\/industry-insights\/economics\/build-friendships-at-work-and-watch-productivity-soar&lt;\/a&gt;\" rel=\"footnote\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Office friendships increase your job satisfaction by about 50%<\/li>\n<li>You are seven times more likely to be highly engaged at work when your best friend works at the same place<\/li>\n<li>\u201c[P]eople who initiate office friendships and are engaged in official social activities are 40 per cent more likely to get a promotion\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sean Achor, a positive psychology researcher at Harvard, has also researched how much more motivated, happy, and productive people are when they take time to invest in their relationships with coworkers. As he noted in his excellent book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0770436730\/?tag=ayeaofpro-20\">Before Happiness<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter surveying over three hundred research participants from various occupations, we identified several distinct types of social support providers, including &#8216;work altruists&#8217; (who provided the most social support at work) and &#8216;work isolators&#8217; (who provided the least). Here\u2019s where it gets interesting. When we looked at the correlation with work engagement, we found that only 5 percent of work isolators were extremely engaged in their jobs and that <b>work altruists were ten times more likely to be highly engaged than work isolators<\/b>. What\u2019s more, <b>over half of the work altruists got along \u201cextremely well\u201d with coworkers<\/b>, as compared to only about 20 percent of isolators. <b>Work altruists were twice as likely as work isolators to be satisfied with their jobs, and almost two-thirds of work altruists reported excellent relations with supervisors<\/b>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(<b>emphasis<\/b> mine)<\/p>\n<p>Sure, when employees\u00a0watch\u00a0the World Cup their\u00a0output decreases (duh, they&#8217;re\u00a0watching the freaking World Cup), but I would vehemently argue that the deeper social bonds they\u00a0form during the process more than compensates for that lost output. Plus, most people are smart enough to plan their work around the\u00a0games\u00a0anyway.<\/p>\n<p>It may be difficult to see the productivity gains to watching the World Cup with your team, especially when those\u00a0gains are nuanced and long-term, but I see\u00a0the World Cup\u00a0like\u00a0a team building exercise, only it&#8217;s\u00a0totally free and people actually want to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Make the World Cup an event\u2014not something people have to watch in another tab on their computer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"footnotes\"><ol class=\"footnotes\" style=\"list-style-type:decimal\"><li id=\"fn1-6998\"><p >Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/world-cup-taking-bite-worker-productivity-111555370--abc-news-topstories.html\">https:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/world-cup-taking-bite-worker-productivity-111555370&#8211;abc-news-topstories.html<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"#rf1-6998\" class=\"backlink\" title=\"Return to footnote 1.\">&#8617;<\/a><\/p><\/li><li id=\"fn2-6998\"><p ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/business\/industry-insights\/economics\/build-friendships-at-work-and-watch-productivity-soar\">http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/business\/industry-insights\/economics\/build-friendships-at-work-and-watch-productivity-soar<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"#rf2-6998\" class=\"backlink\" title=\"Return to footnote 2.\">&#8617;<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Productivity takes a dip during major events like the World Cup, but deeper and more meaningful office relationships can make you more engaged, more likely to get a promotion, and more satisfied with your job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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