Framework For Preventing Procrastination And Increasing Productivity

Abstract

Productivity is an assessment of the efficiency of a person, mostly an employee in a specific period of time. One of the major blockers for a productive session is procrastination. Procrastination is the action of delaying or postponing the work. As a result, the overall productivity of the project or the task will be affected. There is lots of research done on how to increase productivity. In real-time, there are certain professional tools used in practice to monitor productivity. For example, Sprints are in some of the software industries for splitting the work into modules and focusing on each of them, one at a time. However, it is not as flexible as one would like and perhaps a bit too complex as far as the general population is concerned. On the other hand, simple tools using Pomodoro technique, Gamification, etc., are used in some places but one simple technique may not be sufficient. Therefore, we propose a simple generic tool that combines Pomodoro technique, Gamification and Leaderboard to avoid or stop procrastinating of an employee. The Pomodoro Timer technique helps in breaking up a large task into sessions, with each session being followed by a break. ProScore tries to influence users to work productively using the points system, "Productivity Score" and by showing their peers, i.e. other users’ productive session details. Next, leaving the task midway of a session penalizes the user by reducing their points, which is called Gamification. Then, Leaderboard is used based on the Points that the employee has scored. This provides users an incentive to top the leaderboard and hence be more productive while doing so. Finally, we also keep track of all the productive sessions so that a user can revisit how they have performed over a course of time.