We collect a huge amount of data about each employee's work habits. Much of this data is located in log files generated when they connect to company servers or work on their own computers. A company that excessively uses this information to evaluate their employee's may be considered intrusive by their employees and the result may be counterproductive.
However, if we train employees in such a way as to form a mutually beneficial relationship, then we can rely on the employees themselves to analyze and improve their own productivity. In this case, the responsibility of the company is to give employees the proper tools to be more effective. One such tool may be RescueTime (https://www.rescuetime.com/), which helps a person keep track of which programs and websites he or she uses throughout the day. It also assigns a productivity score to each activity. For example, facebook.com has the minimum productivity score of -2, while MS Word scores the maximum score of 2, and MS Outlook may have a neutral productivity score of 0. The following chart reveals the productivity of a person's computer activities throughout several days:
- Let's create the following bar chart in
1.ApplicationPersonal_Performance_Analysis.qvwin theHR_Perspective container:Dimensions
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=1 - Place the following code in the Background Color expression attribute:
=pick(match(round( sum([Time Spent (seconds)]*Productivity) /sum([Time Spent (seconds)])),-2,-1,0,1,2) ,RGB(215,25,28) ,RGB(253,174,97) ,RGB(255,255,191) ,RGB(171,217,233) ,RGB(44,123,182) ) - In the Axes tab, enable the Continuous option in the Dimension Axis section.
- In the Dimensions tab, click Trellis… and enable the Enable Trellis Chart option with Number of Columns set to
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In this chart, the colors belong to a typical heat map that uses a diverging color sequence. Red indicates unproductive activity and blue indicates productive activity. The white space in between indicates that no activity was detected.