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Releasing the new Weekly Productivity Assessment

Releasing the new Weekly Productivity Assessment

macgill davis · February 14, 2022

Changelog 0.8.31 - Get actionable insights from our new Weekly Productivity Assessment.


Our mission at Rize is to use data to make you more productive. We’ve been working on ways to provide you with more actionable insights from your tracked data. The newly released Weekly Productivity Assessment is our latest step towards that vision. 

The first version of the Weekly Productivity Assessment went out last week and an update report was sent out this morning. Moving forward, we’ll send out your report every Monday morning to help you understand what areas you can focus on to boost your productivity for the upcoming week. 

The first section of the report covers your Work Hours. It’ll show your work hours by day, your work consistency, and how much you overworked or underworked. You can update your Work Hours target in Settings > Notifications > Work Hours.


After that, we provide a section on your time breakdown. We’ll show your Focus, Break, and Meeting time totals and compare them to your four week average so you can understand how you’re trending. We’ll also provide your Category and Project breakdowns.


Then comes your Focus Section. Here we want to highlight how well you focused in the previous week. We’re reintroducing a Focus Score that measures the quality of your focus time based on various inputs like context switching, length of Focus sessions, and focus time per day. You can also see how much you were context switching and your top distractors.


The Meeting Section shows your meeting time totals along with your 4-week averages. It’s important to keep tabs on your meeting time as it can steadily increase and eat away at your time allotted for deep work.


Finally, your break section highlights how often you’ve been taking breaks. You should shoot for 10% to 25% of your work time in breaks to stay recharged and avoid burnout.

This is our first iteration of the Weekly Productivity Assessment and we have a lot more planned. Feel free to reach out to us with questions or feedback. We’d love to know how we can improve this report for you.

As always, thanks for using Rize!

Macgill Davis
Macgill DavisCo-Founder & CEO

Macgill is the co-founder and CEO of Rize, an automatic time tracking app for agencies and professional services teams. He writes about productivity, time management, and building better work habits.

Frequently Asked Questions

Rize sends your Weekly Productivity Assessment every Monday morning. This report helps you understand what areas you can focus on to boost your productivity for the upcoming week.

The assessment includes six sections: Work Hours (showing daily hours and consistency), Time Breakdown (Focus, Break, and Meeting time compared to your four-week average), Focus Section (with a Focus Score based on context switching and session length), Meeting Section (tracking meeting time trends), Break Section (showing how often you're taking breaks), and Category and Project breakdowns.

You can update your Work Hours target by going to Settings > Notifications > Work Hours in Rize. This allows the assessment to accurately compare your actual work hours against your personal target.

The Focus Score measures the quality of your focus time based on several factors including how much you're context switching, the length of your Focus sessions, and how much focus time you're getting per day. This helps you understand how well you're concentrating on deep work.

You should aim for 10% to 25% of your work time in breaks to stay recharged and avoid burnout. The Break Section of your Weekly Productivity Assessment highlights how often you've been taking breaks so you can track this metric.

Meeting time can steadily increase and eat away at your time available for deep work. The Meeting Section of your assessment shows your meeting time totals along with your four-week average so you can keep tabs on this trend and maintain a healthy balance.

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