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- USA
- Consumer & Retail
- 100+
- Hybrid & Remote
How Village Gourmet Removed Distractions to Achieve 90%+ Productivity
Learn how Village Gourmet used Insightful to identify distractions and redesign their approach to meetings to dramatically increase focus time.
Results with Insightful
- USA
- Consumer & Retail
- 100+
- Hybrid & Remote
The Challenge: Workplace Distractions and Lost Focus Causing Project Delays
Speciality food manufacturer Village Gourmet had a problem: their employees always seemed to be busy, yet projects weren’t getting finished. It’s the classic managerial challenge; a company-wide tendency of “busywork”, rather than productive work.
Why were the Village Gourmet team’s productivity so inconsistent? What was preventing employee focus and causing project delays? Without visibility into workflows, Village Gourmet leaders were lost for answers.
They needed data and visibility to find out – two things they didn’t have. It was a problem only made worse by many teams working remotely.
Using Insightful to Design a Distraction-free Workday
In search of more visibility into work time and productivity, Village Gourmet turned to Insightful.
With Insightful in place, Village Gourmet managers were, for the first time, able to see what was causing the disconnect between hours worked and projects not getting completed.
Data from Insightful’s app and website usage and productivity pattern features also helped the company understand why some employees were overworked, while others were underutilized.
At last, Village Gourmet had the transparency they needed.
Most importantly, company leaders were able to pinpoint the number one distraction behind lost focus: unnecessary meetings.
Eliminating Unnecessary Meetings Unlocks New Productivity
Calendars filled with meetings are a menace of modern workplaces. It was no different for Village Gourmet. Looking at the data clearly presented on the Insightful dashboard, Village Gourmet leaders discovered employees were needlessly spending dozens of in meetings each week.
Insightful revealed that this meeting overload was preventing employee focus time, which was causing projects to stall or fail. This led the company to institute “No Meeting Wednesday”, a policy that allows employees a full day of uninterrupted focus time.
Insightful also revealed that meetings were often unproductive and attended by employees who weren’t required. These insights led to the creation of the Village Gourmet’s “How to Run a Productive Meeting" guidelines.
Since implementing their new meeting policies with the help of Insightful, Village Gourmet’s productivity has increased to 90-95% across the company. And Wednesday is now consistently the highest productivity day.
With Insightful, you can see this pattern that Wednesdays are when everybody is hitting their productivity goals because they're really focused on getting their job done.
Jose Cano
Manager, CI & Information Technology
Less Meetings & More Focus is aBoom for Business
Insightful delivered the transparency and analytical tools Village Gourmet needed to make remote work consistently productive. Not only is this a competitive advantage for the organization, but it has also increased employee job satisfaction.
Implementing Insightful Also Led To…
More Efficient Processes
- Village Gourmet redesigned their workdays for peak productivity using work activity data.
- Visibility into remote work creates transparency and accountability.
- A new data-driven meeting policy saves hundreds of hours in lost focus.
Higher Employee Engagement
- "Weekly Email Reports" give employees personalized productivity feedback.
- Access to personal productivity data lets employees self-manage performance.
- A new sense of ownership of performance has boosted employee engagement.
More Informed Decision-Making
- Village Gourmet can see team-wide productivity easily in one place via Insightful’s dashboard.
- Managers can now quickly assess productivity at a glance anytime during the day.
- Based on productivity data, more informed decisions are made to improve resource use, processes, and workloads.
Accurate Capacity Analysis
- Village Gourmet clearly understands if employees or teams are overburdened or underutilized.
- Work or resources are reallocated to correct imbalances and keep productivity high.
- With workloads more balanced, burnout and project delays are minimized.
Remote Workflow Alignment
- Insightful provides visibility into distributed teams, fostering a culture of accountability.
- Remote work activity data helps Village Gourmet align workflows based on task status and employee priorities.
- In-depth reports improve communication by alerting managers to opportunities to reach out to offer more support or coaching.
In the departments that are computer-oriented, you can see that they are trending to 90-95% productivity constantly.
Jose Cano
Manager, CI & Information Technology
Every Feature You Need For Effective Remote Work
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