It’s fair to say that, in business, it’s technology that’s driven most of the change over the course of the past half-century. From the invention of the first computers to the advent of the internet, the world of work has gone from laborious physical labor to a majority of digital, part-automated labor. All of this is extremely exciting for productivity and yield – and continues to be for the companies that are able to harness the power of new technologies as quickly as possible. In this article, you’ll learn about three such technologies for modern businesses to enhance their output in 2020.
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HR Surveys
When you’re working in a large company, it can be incredibly difficult to put your finger on how well your staff is performing, how they are feeling, and whether they are satisfied or dissatisfied in their roles. All of these factors can have a significant effect on their productivity – as well as their mental health – and as such, it’s the responsibility of all HR departments to keep tabs on employees in the company.
In the modern world, that can mean something as simple as drawing up a survey on a piece of software designed with HR departments in mind. If your company onboards an engagement survey software program, you’ll be able to measure your employees’ satisfaction in real time, allowing them to voice concerns quickly so you can respond to issues as speedily as possible in the workplace.
Remote Working
We’ve learned over the course of the COVID-19 lockdown that working from home isn’t just a luxury: for some, it’s completely necessary and very possible. As such, remote working technology – already booming before the crisis – will now set the agenda for all technology produced in the business world over the course of the next few months.
In order to make your team versatile and happy, it’s a smart idea to continue offering some form of home-working option for your staff to take advantage of in the future. This means using all of the technologies you can find to link them up to the documents that they need to work on and to help them do great work from their homes.
Communications
In the workplace, the advent of the internet was one of the first innovations to reduce the time employees took to communicate. Simply by pinging off an email, staff were able to land a query in another’s inbox, and continue working on another task. Multiplied many times, this made communication between staff – in different departments and sometimes different cities – far more efficient.
Nowadays, that technological progress has been eclipsed by such programs as Slack, Skype, and other business-friendly instant messaging platforms. It’s your responsibility, as a business, to ensure that you’re working with the latest in communication technologies so that your team can communicate across time and space with ease, helping them get their work done a little quicker.
Use the tech innovations outlined above to help guide your future investments as a company, driving effectiveness and innovation in your workplace.
