Random fun facts about the workplace — which one is your favorite?

• Tuesday is the most productive day of the week.
• Listening to the right music while working helps people get things done faster.
• Adults who regularly get 7.5 to 9 hours of sleep per night are up to 20% more productive.
• Drinking sufficient amount of water/liquid can increase your daily productivity by 14%.
• Workers spend more than 25% of their day in reading and answering emails. If they check emails at set points in the day, it will increase their productivity.
• Laughter boosts your immune system by enhancing your antibodies (which help fight infections) and increasing your immune cell count. This helps reduce your chances of illness and missing out on work.
• Adults who regularly get 7.5 to 9 hours of sleep per night are up to 20% more productive
• Organizations with high employee engagement outperform those with low employee engagement by 202%.
• 37% of engaged employees are looking for jobs or are open to new opportunities, as are 56% of not engaged employees and 73% of actively disengaged employees.
• 85% of employees said they were likely to stay longer with an employer that showed a high level of social responsibility.
• Dress to impress.
• In Germany, employers can require women to wear bras to work. (Yes. This is true!)
• 80% of your culture comes from your leadership.   Good culture and leadership is so important, partly because it provides guidance for how people can behave in a consistent, positive, and productive fashion, particularly when no one’s watching. We do this with our kids all the time. They get home from school hungry for a snack, run into the kitchen and raid the cupboard. The ideal team size is between 4 and 9. A team of this size can move quickly, make decisions rapidly, and get stuff done with remarkable productivity. Bigger teams produce more communication hurdles. Smaller teams enjoy more fluid and spontaneous communication.
• The average office chair with wheels travels about 7.7 miles per year.
• 61% of employees are more productive when the dress code is relaxed.
• Laughter increases blood flow by 22 percent and stress decreases blood flow by 35 percent.
• A glimpse of green makes people more creative