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title: "What is Productivity?"
description: "Learn about the Productivity metric and how it's calculated."
url: https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/6963792-what-is-productivity
collection: "Key concepts and metrics"
updated: 2025-07-24
language: en
---

# What is Productivity?

Learn about the Productivity metric and how it's calculated.

Productivity is a metric that indicates how productive a Group or Individual is whilst at work, and is derived from the data collected in the daily [Check-in](https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/6963808-the-check-in-screen.md) screen.

In order to determine the Productivity of a team or an individual we need to know the following pieces of information:

-   [Available Time](https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/7120786-what-is-available-time.md) - Total time spent at work including overtime and excluding any leave
    
-   [Output](https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/6930767-the-basics-of-bramble.md) - the hours of Production Tasks completed
    

The calculation for **Productivity** is: **Output ➗ Available Time**

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68819d043496084e4796ea23/20250724172907_7103.png)

Using the screenshot above as an example, the hours of Production tasks completed were **4 hours** and the Available Time for the day was **8 hours**, so the calculation is:

### **4 hours / 8 hours = 50% Productivity**

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#### It's important to remember that two factors plays a large role in impacting Productivity:

-   [Friction](https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/6963795-what-is-friction.md) - like Contribution, Productivity will be inversely impacted by the amount of Friction encountered
    
-   [Utilization](https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/6963790-what-is-utilization.md) - A low Utilization will have a considerable effect on the Productivity. This is not a bad thing, it simply means that if a team or staff member spends a lot of their time on Supporting Tasks it will be difficult for them to achieve a high Productivity.