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Employers looking for deeper visibility around how employees spend their time are finding discrepancies of up to 50% between the tasks people consider critical, and those their managers want them to prioritise.

Beamible cofounder Victoria Stuart, whose organisation consults with employers to identify and, where necessary, re-prioritise the activities employees are actually performing, says rebuilding roles in a way that works better for both parties not only results in productivity gains upwards of 20%, but also more than 13% improvement in individual uplift.

The first step is to invite employees to identify the activities they ordinarily perform in the course of their work, and to single out those that matter most in terms of achieving their goals, as well as those they enjoy most...