Introducing 2 surefire ways to increase staff productivity
We live in uncertain times. Ever since the GFC back in 2007/8, economic performance in the US has been poor. Greece is in the midst of a major crisis. Spain is in the process of being bailed out of its debt crisis. Austerity measures seem to be being favoured across the EU. Even business confidence in Australia is reported to be at a three year low.
It’s only natural that businesses are choosing to take stock in a phase of consolidation. Managers are less inclined to invest large sums of money and more inclined to favour risk-averse strategies. Getting the most value out of your existing workforce is one area forward-thinking managers are honing in on.
With the aid of technology, you too can boost the horsepower of your staff. You can use proven methods to increase staff productivity. Cloud solutions in particular are providing a wealth of strategic options for managers looking for increased agility and flexibility in their teams. By outsourcing business processes such as document sharing, payroll, CRM, and security via automated best practice solutions, business can free up employees to rediscover competitive advantage.
Let’s consider IT security industry to see how implementing two proven services can lead to significant uplift in staff productivity.
1) Spam
With around 90% of the world’s email traffic classified as spam, 97% of business owners recognise that unwanted email remains a problem. Spam is proving to be a stubborn headache for the majority of businesses. With email volumes continuing to explode and staff massively dependent on email, the last thing your team needs is to waste time de-cluttering their inbox.
By using an enterprise level spam filtering solution, you can eliminate spam (and viruses, malware and other online threats for that matter) overnight. And the best thing about it? In these uncertain times, you can calculate an exact ROI. That’s based on the time your team spends removing unsolicited mail from their inboxes vs the productivity gained from only having legitimate email in their inboxes.
2) Web browsing
The web has been an absolute godsend for small and medium sized businesses. It’s revolutionised the way we do business, fuelled economic growth and changed the way we conceptualise knowledge. But with great opportunity for business comes great distraction. Maintaining focus can be one of the hardest things to achieve today, and attention is even considered one of the currencies of today’s economy. And that holds true for your team.
How can you be sure your team are browsing the internet effectively in a manner that maintains productivity and drives value into your bottom line?
By using an enterprise level web monitoring and filtering solution, you can choose the boundaries for your team to browse the web. Should you put a blanket ban on Facebook? That answer is really up to you. But what you can do is to create a web browsing policy that works for your company, one that’s customised right down to individual user levels.
With that much flexibility on offer, creating web browsing habits to deliver a happy and a productive team could not be simpler.
Before you implement either of these simple solutions today, try them out for free for 14 days to see how they will work for your business.
Good luck improving productivity of your team!
