Productivity is one of the most important attributes of an office. It’s why we travel from our homes to work. This is true whether travel is moving from home to the office downtown or walking across the apartment to sit down in our Steelcase Leap chair that we got when the pandemic began and sit down at our carefully-curated home office workspace that used to be a project table. Sure, for an office job, you could do all your work while wrapped up in blankets lying in bed, but you are a lot more productive when you’re sitting or standing at your desk, doing your job in a space that’s curated to hold your focus on a task. Cloud based construction management software can significantly increase workplace productivity in construction workplace, according to PBC Today.
1. Cloud-Based Software Is Available Wherever You Are
When you have a cloud based construction management software solution, you know that your data and your workflows are available anywhere you are. Wherever your team is working, whether in your hometown or spread across the globe, they have access to the same information at the same time and know when their tasks are completed. This instant notification and instant information create a great opportunity to reduce overhead and rework. Teams can accept and work on problems knowing that another team is not simultaneously working on the same problem.
2. Checkpoints Encourage Productivity
Micromanaging is the bane of any workplace. No worker enjoys having their manager, supervisor, or team lead constantly watching over their shoulder to ensure their work gets done. With cloud based construction management software and other workplace software solutions, verifying that the work has gotten done is as simple as looking at the task list. There is no hovering over a worker, and no more “if you have time to lean, you have time to clean” mentality. Tasks get done, workers stay busy, and because your workers’ payoff is a lighter managerial hand and a chance to go home at the end of the day with all their work done, they feel like they have a more meaningful stake in their professional success.
3. Empowered Self-Service
Spending hours with HR looking for forms and printouts can sap productivity. With a cloud-based management solution, your workers are empowered to seek out their forms, print them from their workstations, or even fill them out online from their tablets and phones and submit them independently. No more delays on a sick time request, PTO, or ADA. Your workers can feel empowered to advocate for themselves in the workplace, and they let your HR specialists work on what they can do to help the office as a whole.
4. Remote Onboarding
Employee onboarding is another task that can take up most of a day. New employees handling their W-2 and W-4 forms, I-9s, and other paperwork need a lot of guidance and engagement and can be conducted through this process with the help of your new worker hub. You can use the onboarding process hub to connect your remote workers to mentors and coworkers and ensure that they are set up for success not just through the crucial first three months of their career with your company but for the long term. Unitary project tools are essential to help with remote worker productivity during the onboarding process.
5. File Sharing Becomes Automatic
Microsoft SharePoint and other tools like it have revolutionized workplace file sharing in the last two decades. New sharing networks can be created ad hoc for teams and individuals using office file-sharing tools. These networks can allow you to automatically share files with other workers within the workplace LAN, creating a full collaboration system that automates file sharing within your team.
6. Management Software Automates Time Tracking
There is no reason anymore that workers should be clocking in and out at the beginning and end of their day. Automated time tracking doesn’t help you understand how your employees use their time, either. It helps improve productivity on the part of your HR workers by making sure they don’t have to audit your time entries manually and for your other workers by giving credit for all the work they do, eliminating the possibility of DOL investigations for wage theft.
There are many benefits to a cloud-based automated online management system that you should consider implementing. Talk today about getting your office in the cloud by contacting GLXY Software Solutions today!