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Clarizen Survey Pins Falling Productivity Levels on "Communication Overload"A new survey by Clarizen, the global leader in collaborative work management, finds that companies' efforts to improve collaboration among employees by opening new lines of communication can have the opposite effect. 81 percent of respondents say despite taking steps to improve communication among employees, they still lack a way to keep projects on track and provide management oversight. Instead, employees suffer from the modern workplace malady known as "communication overload," a productivity-killing infirmity characterized by too many meaningless meetings and an excessive number of emails, notifications and alerts that are devoid of importance, context or urgency. For a breakdown of the survey's findings, see the infographic "Game of Productivity: Communication Overload is Here" on Clarizen's blog. Clarizen surveyed nearly 300 representatives of companies around the world, and found that only 16 percent consider the productivity levels of their teams as "Excellent." Nearly a quarter (22 percent) indicated "Just OK" or even "We Need Help!" That despite the fact that companies have taken one or more of the following steps within the past year to improve employee communication:
73 percent say they need collaborative software that increases productivity by tying communication to specific business tasks - helping teams align goals, coordinate workflow, track progress, allocate budget and meet deadlines. Yet, only just over half (53 percent) have done so. "There's no doubt that leveraging technologies to improve the lines of communication among employees is important, but communicating is not the same as collaborating," said Anne Catambay, Vice President of Marketing at Clarizen. "Clarizen allow users to work together in the environments they choose, while providing project leaders with a single intuitive cloud-based project management software platform to help teams collaborate and understand how their contributions fits into the big picture." For additional information:
About Clarizen Clarizen delivers secure, cloud-based collaborative work management solutions built on the vision of business agility. Clarizen's PPM (News - Alert) solution combines cross-company project management with configurable workflow automation. Discussions, tasks, projects and portfolios are all accessible from Clarizen's scalable enterprise platform. Internal and external stakeholders both gain easy access to a single source of information to improve work execution, collaborate in-context, optimize resources and respond faster. Clarizen is a leader in Forrester's (News - Alert) Enterprise Collaborative Work Management report and is a two-time Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Based IT Project and Portfolio Management. To learn more, visit clarizen.com.
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