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Improving Productivity (With Science)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the start-by-blinding-yourself-with-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's common knowledge that multiple monitors increase productivity, but there isn't actually any research to support that assertion. However, studies have shown that there are a few simple tweaks to the work environment that do increase productivity. Among them: use high temperature light sources and keep office plants."

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  1. On the contrary by Arancaytar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Multiple monitors make it easier to appear productive with less effort.

  2. They missed one by sharp3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    #1 improvement to productivity) Closing Slashdot!

  3. The article lies. by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Insightful
    There HAVE been studies that show that multiple monitors increase productivity.

    http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/vibe.aspx

    The first study revealed that the users' productivity increased by 9 percent. Further studies showed even greater increases - at times up to 50 percent for tasks such as cutting and pasting. Mary Czerwinski, the VIBE research manager, is excited about her group's discoveries, asking, "If you're able to squeeze 10 percent more productivity out, do you know how much money that will save?"

    The article is utter garbage.

  4. Re:Uhhh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You seem to have been fooled by the fictional "heat lamps" mentioned in police bust reports. This is a blatant lie aimed at tricking people into ineffective grows. Cannabis grows fine at room temperature and overheating is a much bigger problem than cold for indoor grows. The less heat, but more light, the better.

    The real lights used are high pressure sodium, with a low color temperature for best vegetative growth, and metal halide, with a higher color temperature for best flowering. If somebody is using only one type of light it will be the low color temperature high pressure sodium. Fluorescent lighting is also usable for small scale grows but is less efficient.

  5. Music by jomama717 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wish they had done some studies about the effects of music on productivity. I have some of those very nice Bose headphones and by far my most productive hours are spent wearing them.

    Any music that I am able to "zone out" to will do, classical, jazz, techno - usually long tracks with many subtle transitions.

    Granted I am a programmer, and listening to music while working is perfectly reasonable while it may be totally unacceptable for others.

    --
    while [ 1 ]; do echo -n -e "\xe2\x95\xb$((($RANDOM&1)+1))"; done