Today's Report

Today's report explores the relationship between productivity and various factors that may affect it, with an anonymous company observed over the past 6 weeks as the example in the chart shown.

You'll first notice that in the example, productivity has been in steep decline for the month of January. There is a loose direct relationship between "true productivity" and "focus control," while these variables are clearly inversely proportional to "new projects," "meetings per week," and "profanity uttered under breath." Of course we know that correlation does not imply causation, but it's hard to argue with these results, and this is definitely a relationship worth exploring further. Especially notice the almost identical trend for "meetings per week," starting at 1 in December and increasing to 31 near the end of the analysis period, and "profanity uttered under breath." One could reasonably assume there is direct causation between these variables, one way or the other.

It is also important to note that "perceived productivity" does not show a statistical relationship to any of the other variables. Nor does "recommendations accepted," which remained at 0 for the entire analysis period.

My overall recommendation is to begin testing variables. Common sense will provide us the order in which to test hypotheses, and dramatic tests will hopefully yield dramatic results, so I would suggest beginning by eliminating meetings to observe the effect on other variables.