The workplace is entirely different than it was even twenty years ago. Today, technology has revolutionized business processes to make certain tasks easier or completely automated. This has helped provide more custom and personalized experiences for your customers, but it has also changed how your employees work. In fact, you need to care as much about how technology can be used to improve your employees’ experiences as you do your customers. Without a strong team behind you, your company cannot tackle the creative challenges that will come your way. Technology can only do so much, but it has revolutionized these common workplace practices:
It Has Improved Communication
Large companies have the difficult task of trying to encourage easy communication between departments, but with technology those difficulties are a thing of the past. There are two main ways tech has improved inter-departmental communication. One, it allows for documents and edits to occur on the cloud, meaning information can be shared and worked on instantaneously no matter where your employees are.
The other way is through automation. With the right tech, your inventory team can keep an up to date list on what they have. When their stocks become low, an automated message can be sent out to your suppliers to order more, and so on. This will improve efficiency, reduce wait-time, and generally improve your company.
It Has Automated Admin Tasks
Automated messages are of course one part of how automation can benefit a company. Another way is through generated reports. The human brain cannot deduce patterns from massive sheets of information – it does best when presented with patterns. Let the machine or software produce these patterns for you so you can start implementing the right changes.
It Has Allowed for Flexitime
Keeping track of how employees work and when they work means offering flexitime as a benefit has never been easier. Allow employees to work around their home life with ease. Make it so that they can finally take that doctor’s appointment without having to call in a sick day. An emergency at home? Let them go. Flexitime means that employees have to work a certain number of hours per week, not that they have to have it done in the traditional 9-to-5.
Easy and Effective Benefits
Workers nowadays expect so much more from their employers than a paycheck. They want their wellbeing to be cared for, and part of this wellbeing is making it easier to balance their work and home life responsibilities. Flextime, for example, is a great start, but you can do so much more with technology. For example, you can enroll in an employee benefits scheme that integrates with your payroll software, and then allows your employees to request portions of their paycheck, which they have already earned, throughout the month, right from their own mobile device. It’s easy, keeps them from falling into debt, and can help them manage their finances better than they could before.
Technology has improved workflows, improved communication, and of course it has improved your ability to improve the lives of every single one of your employees. You need to care about those who work for you, if you want them to care about you, so start making these changes today.
