A recent paper titled “It Is Time to Get Some Rest,” by Manel Baucells, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business, and Lin Zhao of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing used insights from the pacing and race techniques used in Olympic Sports to suggest how employees working under different conditions can manage their breaks to maximize performance and hence avoid fatigue, burnout and other overwork associated problems. Mentally fatigued and overworked teams tend to experience greater probabilities of depression and physical health problems, lower life quality and satisfaction, and negative impacts on their family life. Work...

With technology evolving and opening new doors to behavior insights different fields are using advanced models to reduce error and burnout enhancing productivity and results. Sports are using it with incredible support from science.. One example is Mitchell Smith, a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Health at the University of Technology Sydney. He has spent extensive time testing athletes to their mental limit to find out what impact fatigue has on performance. In his study, he focused on the effects of mental fatigue on intermittent running performance. By exposing athletes to a different context that affect mental fatigue,...

Are you a decision maker, responsible for the well-being of your team, or simply concerned about your colleagues? If so, this is for you! Management is one of the most challenging tasks in an organization, especially when it requires gathering contextualized information, or when there are different sources of information to consider, making it difficult to select the appropriate and relevant ones. For this reason, at Performetric we implemented a set of notifications for the company and team admin, providing notifications in real-time concerning: signs of burnout inside the company; users with extreme levels of fatigue (level 6 or 7)...

Occupational or Employee Burnout is a well-known but grossly underserved problem. While many aspects of our lives contribute to burnout, according to many studies, the most prevalent comes from work. In the book, The Truth About Burnout: How Organizations Cause Personal Stress and What to Do About It, Dr. Leiter and Dr. Maslach identify six sources of burnout: Work overload stemming from too much work or not enough resources Lack of Control arising from micromanagement, lack of influence, accountability without power Insufficient Reward ranging from lack of acknowledgment to lack of adequate pay Lack of a Supportive Community leading to...

How fast can I type on my computer? Or what is my accuracy pointing to the screen? and most important....why should I care about that? This is the main goal of Human-Computer interaction (HCI): to improve the interaction between users and computers by making computer interaction mechanisms adapt to the users and the tasks instead of the other way around. Over the long-term, HCI aims to design systems that minimize the barrier between an human's cognitive model of what he/she wants to accomplish and the computer's understanding of the user's task, as well as helping solve real problems...