Working from home is nothing new and many people have been doing it for years. However, in 2020 a lot more people needed to get used to the technology that enables working from home to work smoothly, especially among workers who are used to functioning with one another collaboratively. If anything, 2020 might go down…
The Coronavirus pandemic has been a nightmare to many businesses presenting countless challenges. Most companies are struggling to navigate the current circumstances while fighting to remain afloat. The prevailing conditions present unfamiliar frustrations and confusion on how to run businesses. There is also a rising uncertainty on how the pandemic affects annual leave for employees.…
Coping with a dispersed workforce with remote employee tracking is nothing new. However, as the world has transformed due to the various contagion control measures that have been put in place around the world in recent times the requirement to track remote workers has grown exponentially. For many managers who have never needed to consider…
Advanced announced today that it has acquired Mitrefinch, who in turn has fully acquired the joint venture it held in Ireland with Advance Systems International. Mitrefinch is a global provider of workforce management solutions and Advance Systems International was its distributor in Ireland. The joining together of these businesses will enable strong future innovation and…
You won’t make it onto the cover of Forbes for planning a great rota. You won’t get the attention of your C-suit seniors or win the Manager of the Year Award for it either. Staff scheduling is one of those bread-and-butter jobs you have to do when your business isn’t achieving its goals, but it’s…
An employee scheduling mishap can bring your work to a grinding halt without warning. An employee you are counting on could be having an emergency and fail to show up at work. This means you have to find another employee to cover the shift. Sometimes your perfect plan can be the problem. You plan for…
If the global pandemic of 2020 has taught employers anything, then it has shown them that working from home can become a real way of working for many organisations. Of course, there are instances when face-to-face interactions are necessary in many walks of life. The various lockdowns that have been imposed around much of the…
Managing a workforce that is spread out over a couple of different time zones has always been a complex business. However, high-quality workforce management software has made most of the daily tasks associated with managing teams in different regions much simpler. Of course, throughout the course of 2020, many businesses – even those which have…
Retail businesses – probably more than any other type – go through a high rate of staff turnover. It is not because they are bad employers but due to the fact that so many retail jobs are taken on by people looking for seasonal work or as a stop-gap measure. In addition, the retail sector…
The average employee loses an hour a day to sloppy productivity skills and interruptions. The average team spends only 20% of the workday on high-value tasks. A run-of-the-mill office uses time like water, diluting its hours with desk clutter, messy scheduling, and interruptions. It’s time to extract all those unused hours from your workspace so…
