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| Oct 21, 2025 | The full moon and Mercury in retrograde enhances personal productivity, study finds | Latvians have always had an affinity towards the effects of the full moon. Call it superstition, but Latvia’s time tracking software DeskTime
has finally discovered a data-based correlation between the movement of celestial bodies and our w... |
| Sep 24, 2025 | DeskTime reaches Latvia's top 5 fair pay employers | Draugiem Group company DeskTime has been ranked among Latvia’s Top 5 Fair Pay Employers, climbing five places compared to last year. The recognition comes from the annual study conducted by Figure Baltic Advisory (FBA), a compensation resea... |
| Oct 28, 2024 | This One Habit is a Productivity Killer — And You Can Get Rid of It in Under 5 Minutes Notifications are productivity vampires — silence them to reclaim your focus and momentum. | Being productive is often presented as a lifestyle — wake up early, learn to time block, practice a healthy lifestyle, use the right tools — you name it. The promise is that if you take full control over your time and work environment, you ... |
| Oct 15, 2024 | The Remote Work Tug-of-War: A New Era of Office Dynamics | The landscape of work is shifting. The pandemic pushed remote work into the spotlight, but now, the pendulum is swinging back. Companies like Amazon and Apple are calling employees back to the office. Meanwhile, Spotify stands firm, advocat... |
| Oct 14, 2024 | Удаленка под угрозой: зарубежные компании возвращают людей в офисы. Почему это неизбежно затронет Россию? | Иногда кажется, что удаленка была с нами всегда. Хотя массово айтишники начали работать из дома лишь с 2020 года из-за пандемии COVID-19. Тогда говорили, что это временная мера и уже через месяц все вернутся в офис.
Прошло 4 года, пик удале... |
| Jun 24, 2024 | India is the Perfect Location for International Expansion. Here are 5 Things to Consider When Expanding to India Entering the Indian market brought several discoveries about the business landscape there — some of them unexpected. | I recently expanded my business into India. This decision was based on several reasons. Undeniably, the size of the Indian market, with over a billion potential customers, was very attractive. India's established call center and outsourcing... |
| Jun 11, 2024 | I Caught My Employee Secretly Working a Second Remote Job. Here's Why I Decided to Fire Them — and Why I Think Overemployment Is Unethical. Some companies are cracking down on the "overemployed" trend of working multiple remote jobs. |
This article originally appeared on Business Insider.
This as-told-to essay is based on an email conversation with Patrick Synge, the co-founder and CEO of the business-process-outsourcing and remote-recruitment company Metrickal. The busi... |
| Jun 29, 2023 | Winning over your next tech talent through a top-notch candidate experience | Tech talent hiring is going through turbulent times. Big tech layoffs
that began overseas in 2022 slowly crept into Europe, affecting large corporations and startups
.
The good news (for some) is that Europe faces a considerable gap
in tech... |
| Jun 6, 2023 | Latvian startup scene overview: May 2023 | After a marvelous April
, May kept the good news coming for the Latvian startup ecosystem. We celebrated two more funding announcements, startup growth news, and many more stories from enthusiastic local startuppers and related institutions... |
| May 25, 2023 | DeskTime turnover grows to over €3 million | The turnover of DeskTime, a company of the Draugiem Group, increased by 45% to €3.06 million in 2022. It is the group’s fastest growing company.
CEO of DeskTime
, Artis Rozentāls, expects the company’s growth of the last three years to cont... |
| Feb 24, 2023 | Silent Leadership: How Introverts Can Be Excellent Leaders Despite Societal Stereotypes | CEO of DeskTime—a time tracking and productivity app for companies and freelancers. He’s also an amateur athlete and father of two. |
| Feb 1, 2023 | First study of its kind reveals how much time per day Europeans spend using email at work | In an era of distraction, Europeans are spending far less time on email than previously thought. RIGA, LATVIA, February 1, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A study by the productivity software DeskTime has gathered first-ever data on European emp... |
| Jan 30, 2023 | How To Be A Better Team Manager In 2023 | CEO of DeskTime—a time tracking and productivity app for companies and freelancers. He’s also an amateur athlete and father of two. |
| Dec 14, 2022 | How Business Execs Can Better Support Women Leaders | Discussions around the ongoing impact of the pandemic on the workplace have placed much of the focus on the Great Resignation. However, many organizations may be missing the fact that in 2021 alone, 10.5% of women business leaders have left... |
| Nov 9, 2022 | Post-pandemic reality in Latvia – what stuck and what's “normal” again | We took a look at the local startup ecosystem to see what did and what didn’t settle in the digital reality – from workplaces to events, coworking, and acceleration programs.
When Covid-19 was still in full swing, everyone speculated what t... |
| Aug 5, 2022 | What Managers Get Wrong About Employee Monitoring | CEO of DeskTime – a time tracking and productivity app for companies and freelancers. He’s also an amateur athlete and father of two. |
| Apr 29, 2022 | The Hustle Culture Has No Future—Enter The Break Culture | CEO of DeskTime – a time tracking and productivity app for companies and freelancers. He’s also an amateur athlete and father of two. |
| Feb 28, 2022 | Европейские альтернативы американским интернет-сервисам | Зашифрованное хранилище файлов CryptDrive.cz (Чехия)
Судя по последним событиям, Евросоюз начал по-взрослому давить на Google, Facebook и другие американские компании, которые собирают персональные данные европейских граждан и отправляют в ... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | Компании стали чаще скачивать и устанавливать ПО для слежки за сотрудниками на удалёнке — исследование Статьи редакции | Количество поисковых запросов «как контролировать сотрудников на дому» увеличились на 1705% в апреле и 652% в мае.
Научный центр Европейской комиссии опубликовал исследование «Электронный мониторинг и наблюдение на рабочем месте» о контроле... |
| Nov 5, 2021 | Overheard: Energy transition experts weigh in at Houston climatetech conference | This week, world leaders are discussing climate change and the future of our planet at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, but local leaders were also discussing much closer to home.
Greentown Labs hosted its ... |
| Nov 2, 2021 | 3 energy transition companies with Houston ties pitch at international conference | It's all hands on deck for pioneering technology to advance the energy transition and climatetech, and three companies with a Houston presence just took the national stage to showcase their climate change solutions.
The United Nations' 2021... |
| Nov 2, 2021 | University of Houston: 3 problems with the 'covidization' of science and research | It has been – and for a while, will be – everywhere. The words: COVID-19, coronavirus and pandemic. According to an article by Holly Else in Nature, "coined in April by Madhukar Pai, a tuberculosis researcher at McGill University in Mo... |
| Nov 1, 2021 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from health tech to clean energy — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Carolyn Rodz, CEO and... |
| Oct 29, 2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, a new partnership between The Ion and Ca... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Houston expert: Prime times for cyber-attacks and how to stay protected | October is cybersecurity awareness month. The topic might sound overwhelming, and it certainly can be, but there are a few easy ways we can educate and protect ourselves and our loved ones.
Be mindful of timing
Cyber actors target certain t... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Houston makes the grade as a top place to live after college, says new report | For many college students, it's tough to imagine life after college when they're cramming for exams and cranking out research papers. Yet the time does come when they'll venture into the "real world" with their degrees.
Before gra... |
| Oct 27, 2021 | Houston university's MBA program claims coveted top spot of annual ranking | Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business has raked in yet another top spot on an annual list of top MBA programs.
A new ranking from Poets & Quants, which covers news about business schools, puts Rice at No. 3 among the world... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Renewables are Houston's next chapter, says this expert | Houston has long been known as an innovative city — from medicine to technology to creative cuisines (see Viet-Cajun). I am always proud to see how cultures, education, and change come together to build the fabric of our city. As we look fo... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from space health to virtual collaboration — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
James Hury,... |
| Sep 17, 2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included new hires at Houston startups, photos from the InnovationMap... |
| Sep 13, 2021 | University of Houston prescribes homeless relief with new free clinic | Houston is no stranger to the plague of homelessness and now, a major university has a prescription for some relief.
The University of Houston College of Nursing will open its new Nursing Health Clinic in Midtown on September 13, the school... |
| Sep 13, 2021 | Photos: InnovationMap shares scenes from its inaugural awards celebration | Last week, the inaugural InnovationMap Awards presented by Techwave honored 28 companies across eight categories.
The hybrid event, which took place on September 8, was hosted at The Cannon West Houston as well as streamed online. The in-pe... |
| Sep 10, 2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap overwhelmingly included coverage of the inaigural InnovationMap Award... |
| Sep 10, 2021 | Editor's note: Celebrating 100 episodes of the Houston Innovators Podcast and the InnovationMap Awards | Editor's note: It's been a big week for InnovationMap. Not only did we celebrate our inaugural awards program on Wednesday, September 8, but, coincidentally, this week marked the 100th episode of the Houston Innovators Podcast.
The podcast,... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Rice University named one of the greatest schools in U.S. in prestigious new report | Just mere weeks after being named the No. 7 university in the nation, a local hall of higher learning has just landed on yet another prestigious list.
Rice University has scored high marks in the Princeton Review's annual survey on the nati... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Watch the InnovationMap Awards livestream honoring Houston tech and innovation | Who are Houston's rising stars across energy transition, sports tech, health, and more? Watch the livestream to find out. Click play on the video above, or join the conversation on YouTube by clicking here.
We are also honoring our 2021 Tra... |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Houston investor shares why she's focused on funding the future of femtech | Successful investors find gaps in the marketplace and direct funds into startups and technologies resolving those gaps. For Kyra Doolan, managing director at Houston-based Texas HALO Fund, femtech represents a huge opportunity for innovatio... |
| Aug 23, 2021 | Houston health tech company raises $7.85M series A led by local VC | A Houston-based health tech company has scored fresh funds from a Houston venture group to fuel its growth and to expand nationally.
KARE Technologies, a digital labor marketplace for health care workers, raised a $7.85 million series A inv... |
| Aug 20, 2021 | Rice Alliance announces 4 most promising energy tech companies at OTC | Fourteen companies pitched at the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship's Energy Venture Day at the 2021 Offshore Technology Conference, and virtual attendees voted on the companies they think are the most promising.
The compani... |
| Aug 20, 2021 | New app maps out hot Heights development's shopping and restaurants | Bustling mixed-use Heights development M-K-T (600 N Shepherd Dr.) has been all the buzz lately, with new hip fashion shops such as Nollege and TAFT strolling in and Homestead Breakfast, Lunch & Later serving up breakfast to hungry shopp... |
| Aug 12, 2021 | City of Houston sorts trash and curbside recycling questions with new app | Ah, the age-old Houston recycling questions: Is recycling today? Next week? Is glass accepted? Recycle the birthday card from the ex or burn it?
The City of Houston is here to help with those questions (er, perhaps not the last one) with a ... |
| Aug 12, 2021 | Fortune 100 company moves materials tech biz HQ to Houston | A nearly $10 billion division of Honeywell International that primarily caters to the oil and gas industry has moved its headquarters to Houston.
On August 11, Charlotte, North Carolina-based Honeywell announced its Performance Materials an... |
| Aug 12, 2021 | 4 ways Houston businesses can recover cash flow in a post-COVID world | The COVID-19 pandemic has been a cash flow disaster for many businesses, whether it's small restaurants forced to close their doors for months on end or commercial rental properties unable to fill their office space in light of widespread r... |
| Apr 19, 2021 | How I Managed My Growing Company While Being COVID-19 Positive | I received a positive COVID-19 test result on December 9th. I was working from home and had avoided socializing for months, but the virus reached me through my daughter’s kindergarten.
Staying isolated for a couple of weeks wasn’t going to ... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Digital.com Names Best Employee Monitoring Software of 2021 | SEATTLE (PRWEB) February 23, 2021
Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has announced the best employee monitoring software of 2021. The highly rated platforms were select... |
| Jan 11, 2021 | Helping to sell 47 products per day on Amazon platform | From September to November this year, Fast Brands has sold 4,305 products on behalf of its customers on the Amazon e-commerce platform in Europe and the United States – an average of 47 items per day. The company’s observations show that co... |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Digital.com Names Best Time Tracking Software For Year 2021 | SEATLLE (PRWEB) December 14, 2020
Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has announced the best time tracking software of 2021. The top solutions were selected based on key... |
| Nov 17, 2020 | The Woman Building The ‘Focus As A Service’ Industry | Molly Sonsteng is one of the founders of Caveday, a wellness meets coworking space. It’s a unique approach to work that focuses on, well, focus. In the way a fitness instructor helps guide a class through exercise, The Cave has a guide help... |
| Sep 10, 2019 | The 3-step strategy that helped one startup grow its blog traffic by 81% | Facebook
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If your company is one of the millions of businesses worldwide that has a blog, you know the biggest challenge that comes along with it: attracting readers.
Here’s the t... |
| Sep 19, 2014 | Big data study finds most productive people work in sprints: 52 minutes, rest for 17 | A new big data study claims to have found a formula for ultimate productivity: work 52 consecutive minutes and then ditch the computer for 17 minutes of rest.
Worker productivity monitoring company, DeskTime, sorted through volumes of data ... |
| Sep 26, 2013 | We Tested Standing Desks—Here’s Proof They Make You More Productive | ReadWriteBody is an ongoing series where ReadWrite covers networked fitness and the quantified self. This is a guest post by contributor Julia Gifford of the Draugiem Group.
Without a doubt, standing tables have become the mark of a hip off... |
| Apr 12, 2013 | Remote Work: Does Telecommuting Really Work? | Guest author Julia Gifford works at DeskTime, which makes time-tracking and productivity software.
The Internet went crazy when Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer decided to ban remote working at the company, a decision that drastically affected more ... |
| Jan 29, 2013 | Infographics are dead. Long live webgraphics | Julia Gifford works with the Draugiem Group, a Latvian incubator.
Infographics have become an outdated method of data visualization. Recent developments in technology have allowed a new breed of data visualization to emerge — a prettier, mo... |
| Jan 29, 2013 | Infographics are dead. Long live webgraphics | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Julia Gifford works with the Draugiem Group, a La... |
