Employee engagement has been a serious issue lately. A study conducted by Gallup has founded that only 30% of the employees are engaged with their job emotionally whereas 20% of the employees are actively disengaged. This disengagement of the employees can be turned into engagement using the latest technology. Yes, technology can help an organization and its employees to become more productive.
Using the technology productively will help in improvising your employees’ effectiveness too. There are so many apps, software that will transform your workplace more productive and effective. Some of such software and apps that has brought a revolution in the present day office are
HR software
HR department of any organization will be having a lot of work in their hands. From hiring new candidates to storing their data securely and managing the payroll of entire staff, there are a lot of responsibilities that the HR department has to take on. The size of organization doesn’t matter but adapting HR Software will surely help. From securing the data of the employees to taking care of their payroll, the software is capable of doing anything. Implementation of this software will help the HR to focus on other important things while calculating the payroll every month and short listing the candidates can be done by the software.
Gamification
This isn’t an exact technology that will help in directly improving the productiveness of an employee but it will influence an employee in an indirect way. The gamification provides your employees with motivation that will help them in becoming more productive. The natural desire of people is to compete and with the help of gamification they will be able to evaluate their performance and compare it with their colleagues too. This gamification will help in the assessment of the performance and improving the performance of employees from day to day. The friendly competition environment among the employees can go a long way.
Automation Tools
Time has become more important than anything in this today’s business world and it has become important for an employee to use this time very effectively. From replying to the prospect clients to taking a look at the social media messages and notifications, there are so many things that can be automated in order to save some time. Using of these automation tools will help in making better utilization of the time. You can work on your high priority tasks list while the automation tools will take care of the replies, paying bills, updating of the contacts, etc.
Project Management Software
The project management software will reduce a lot of work and make the communication very easy among the employees. From sharing the files to discussing about the project in the software itself, the employees can do everything easily. The project management software has came a long way and is improved a lot with the new updates. It provides a platform where the interaction among the employees is made easy and the progress of the project can be tracked from time to time.
Cloud Based Database
There are sometimes when the employees has to work from their home, attend a call or work on the project on emergency basis. At these times it will be very helpful to have a cloud based database where all the files and data related to your software is stored. Both you and your employees can have the access to the files and other information whenever they want and wherever they want. The only thing that you have to take care of is security of the database. Make sure to provide access to the required employees only to ensure the security of the files.
Tracking of the Time
There are various types of time tracking software that will run in the background on the computer. The software will keep the track of all the activities that has been done on the computer. This way it becomes easy to know about the time that has been invested in a certain project. You will be able to have a clear idea of what and where the time of your employees has been invested in.
These are some of the latest technologies that will help in making your employees more productive. The technology is updating from time to time but for the time being these are the must have software for increased effectiveness.
Author Bio: A Software Analyst at SoftwareSuggest, Nidhi Raghuvanshi studies and writes reviews about Software in categories such as POS Software and Business Intelligence. She is a Google Certified Digital Marketer. In her spare time, she likes to read fiction.
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