ActivTrak Productivity Lab: Employees Are More Productive, But More than One Third Still Face Risk of Burnout

The ActivTrak Productivity Lab today announced benchmark data for the third quarter revealing that year-over-year productive time improved by six minutes per day per employee, and more than one million hours overall.

The Productivity Lab analyzed 17.8 million hours from 56,910 anonymized users on ActivTrak's workforce analytics platform between Jan. 1-Sept. 30, 2022 to understand employees' digital work day activities and habits. Other findings include:

• Employees in the healthy zone (62 percent) increased by 24 percent driven by the re-engagement of underutilized employees
• Underutilization dropped 19 percent indicating an increase in overall engagement
• More than one-third (34 percent) of employees remain overutilized

"At a time when there are concerns of quiet quitting and declining workforce productivity levels eroding the economy, our findings reveal an uptick in daily productive time, employee engagement and healthy work levels," said Gabriela Mauch, vice president of customer experience & Productivity Lab at ActivTrak. "Despite these improvements, many employees remain overutilized and face the risk of burnout. When managing and leading teams, it's important to spot signs of overload, engage in regular conversations with employees and rebalance workloads to achieve sustainable and healthy levels of productivity."

In Q1 2023, the Productivity Lab will release its annual update on the State of the Workplace. Click here to add your name to the list and receive a copy when the report goes live.

To learn more about Productivity Lab research and best practices, visit:

• Quarterly Benchmarks Report (Q3 2022)
• Blog: Cross-Industry & Industry-Specific Baselines (Q3 2022)
• 2022 State of the Workplace Report
• ActivTrak Platform Overview Video

About ActivTrak Productivity Lab

The ActivTrak Productivity Lab helps organizations empower people, optimize processes and maximize technology so they can work wiser and thrive. We do this using insights from hundreds of companies and billions of data points to identify trends, develop strategies and remove obstacles that improve and sustain productivity. Our findings are expanded through market research and strategic alliances with organizations including Cornell University and MIT. To learn more visit: https://www.activtrak.com/productivity-lab/.

About ActivTrak

ActivTrak helps digital workforces work wiser and thrive. More than 9,000 customers and 550,000 users have deployed our workforce analytics cloud to gain insights and metrics about digital work so they can measure and optimize productivity and wellness with the employee in mind. These innovations have been recognized by the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, the Inc. 5000 and the Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology award. Based in Austin, Texas, ActivTrak is backed by Sapphire Ventures and Elsewhere Partners, and led by a seasoned team of software industry veterans. To learn more visit: https://www.activtrak.com/.