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9 Productivity Snacks to Get You Through Your Work Day

If you love food as much as I do, then you're always looking for excuses to eat throughout the day. Bored, stressed, nervous, happy... all very legitimate reasons to head to the kitchen. I'm here to share with you another reason to eat: greater productivity. Hard work requires a sharp mind and plenty of energy,

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Vacay the Wrike Way

Research shows the health benefits of vacation time. But for the first time in recorded history, 55% of workers left vacation days unused. Why aren’t employees taking their paid vacations? Wrike commissioned a survey of 1,700+ U.S. respondents to understand how stress before, during, and after vacations could be the perpetrator.

Work Smarter, Not Harder: 25 Must-Know Productivity Tips

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14 Online Resources to Break Through Your Creative Block

You know the feeling. You sit down to work on a creative project and your brain just goes blank. When creative inspiration is stubbornly elusive, most of us turn to the internet for distraction... only to come back to our project three hours later just as stuck as we were before. But the internet can be

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Tips and Tricks: Tag Your Tasks to Find Them Later with a Mouse Click

Imagine your marketing department is going to run a customer satisfaction survey. To have quick access to this task, you may want to put it into several categories, like "Surveys", "Favorites" and "Approved." Wonder how you can do it in Wrike?Create and attribute multiple tags to a task The function of tags is assigned to folder

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How to Increase Productivity on Your Team

You've come to that point in your management career: work isn't getting done fast enough and your team's emotional well-being is dwindling. Your own stress levels are climbing as pressure from higher-ups increases. You're trying to help your team, but no matter how hard they work, nothing is getting done and they're wilting more every

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Give Your Creativity a Boost Using the B.U.I.L.D. Model (Infographic)

"Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random." —Ken Robinson Using your imagination can sometimes be easier said than done. As a kid, being creative comes with ease and encouragement. As an adult, it becomes more of an expectation. Sometimes, that creative block can get the

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7 Exercises for Reducing Stress (Infographic)

Check out the infographic below for seven simple yoga exercises that are easy to incorporate into your morning routine or sneak in on your lunch break to help reduce your daily stress.

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How to Create a Workspace that Motivates You

Whoever started the office trend of cubicles and fluorescent bulbs clearly didn’t understand how real productivity happens. Natural light, privacy, physical comfort, and the freedom to personalize your space foster inspiration and efficiency—feeling simultaneously trapped and exposed in a beige den does not. Since technology opened the door to remote work, the benefits of a

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How to Manage Project Resources to Boost Productivity

Manage project resources for better outcomes, increased productivity, and overall project success. Learn how Wrike can improve your project resource planning process.

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Are Consistency and Creativity Mutually Exclusive?

Creativity is important. But not easy, particularly when you’re expected to exercise your creative genius day after day. Is it even possible to achieve a consistent level of creativity, while producing at a high volume? And if so, how? Here’s what you need to know.

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How to Set Up Your Workspace for Maximum Productivity (Infographic)

Take a moment to look at your desk. Are there piles of papers and scribbled notes? Crumpled granola bar wrappers? Photos of loved ones? Cold cups of coffee? Most of us have experienced firsthand how our work environment affects our ability to focus, but it can be difficult to know exactly how you should set

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Customers Share How Much Time and Money They Save With Wrike (Infographic)

Wondering how much companies save when they choose Wrike? By empowering their teams with the most versatile work management platform, companies like Fitbit, Nickelodeon, Siemens, Aerotek, and Arvig see huge gains in productivity, project speed, and cost savings. An effective work management platform can do more than just help you manage your to-do list. Wrike customers

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The Impact of Employee Engagement on Productivity, Retention & More

Whether you’re hiring new employees or want to reinvigorate the productivity of your current team, consider this comprehensive guide to employee engagement to help you determine the best path forward.

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Are the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Still Relevant?

We review and revisit Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to ask: are those 7 habits still relevant to a high-speed world that's heard one too many productivity and leadership mantras?

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Productivity Experiments that Shaped the Way We Work

As the Industrial Revolution swept America in the late 1700s to the early 1800s, managers started to become more interested in productivity. Over the coming decades, Congress passed safety regulations that sought to improve working conditions and put a cap on the amount of hours that employees could work each day. At the same time,

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What You Need to Know About Work Order Management

Offices aren’t exempt from needing work done every once in a while. Maybe you’ve needed the printer repaired, made a standard maintenance call such as an air filter replacement, or appliances in the breakroom stopped working suddenly. These are just a few examples of times when a work order — the connecting communication between you as

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Tip of the Day: Assign Tasks with Drag-and-Drop

Here’s another handy tip to save more of your precious time. If you like Wrike's drag-and-drop support, don’t forget to use it when you assign tasks.Here’s another handy task management tip to save more of your precious time. If you like our drag-and-drop support, don’t forget to use it when you assign tasks. The ability to assign tasks with

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6 Trends Shaping the Future of Work (Infographic)

Fax machines, rolodexes, and PDAs seem like ancient history, yet just 10 years ago they were ubiquitous office tools. What surprises does the next decade hold for today’s workers? As the old adage says, the only constant is change. Set yourself up for success by keeping an eye on these 6 big trends that are defining

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Top 5 Product Design Blogs to Follow

When you talk about product design, you're talking about the numerous processes involved in creating a product — whether physical or digital. It must have functionality that answers a target market's specific needs, and it must have an aesthetically pleasing form. It's a formula that Apple has used with much success. But where does one find

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51 Chrome Browser Extensions to Amplify Your Productivity

As more and more knowledge work gets done within a browser, and more work tools migrate to the convenience of the cloud, it makes sense to enhance your browser with extensions that help you get work done faster. We've listed these 51 extensions for Google Chrome that will help amplify your productivity.

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3 Notorious Productivity Killers and How to Fight Them (Infographic)

Do any of these situations sound familiar? You're completely focused, getting work done, and then your coworker taps you on the shoulder just to chat... and now you can't get back in the zone. Your manager assigns you a new project, but it's such a large effort that you know you won't be able to make any

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Why We Complain About Work & How To Stop

Researchers say we complain about 15 to 30 times a day, and a lot of those complaints are about our job. Why do we complain about work? Let's take a look at what complaining is, why you do it, and how to get past it to lead a more positive life.