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Employees everywhere are struggling with the weight of a new workplace standard, some more than others. If those struggles (and their performance) go unchecked, it may not only cost companies money but talent.
New data from software application Prodoscore found that 11.7% of employees across 140 organizations surveyed had low-productivity ratings, some of which have been so negatively impacted by that pandemic that they’re active for as little as 90 minutes per day, wasting $48,000 of a $60,000 annual salary.
Of the employees falling into the bottom percentile of producers, the majority were already teetering on the productivity scale, according to David Powell, President of Prodoscore.
“If you were [already] a low-productivity worker around March and April of last year when you went home,” he says, “that just fell off a cliff.”
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