subject: The Importance of Managing Remote Employees [print this page] The Importance of Managing Remote Employees
The amount of companies now requiring remote staff is at one of its highest points and therefore the need to manage and monitor them is becoming increasingly significant. Most employers place their trust in their staff to work the full scheduled duration and to be there at their contracted hours. But today, trust is not enough as more and more businesses are either paying staff for more hours than they have actually worked, finding it difficult to communicate with them, or worse, not knowing the whereabouts of their staff.
Ensuring that staff turn up, on site and on time, is the single biggest challenge for employers of remote staff. Potential collapse of communication needs to be identified and prevented before the inevitable call from the disgruntled client, otherwise trust and your reputation can quickly be lost. This presents a difficult challenge, as communicating with remote staff and verifying timely on-site attendance is traditionally a minefield.
Companies lose thousands of pounds each month on loss of productivity and payroll overpayments. For example, a workforce of 20 at a rate of 8.00 per hour, starting half an hour late and finishing half an hour early would result in 240.00 loss per day. A way round this problem would be a way of recording an employee isdefinitelyon site, on time and is still there for the duration of his hours.
Solution
A solution to all these problems is a timekeeping system that in some way records that remote staff are where they should be at the correct time as well as the ability to prove that they are still there. Another requirement for this system would be a service which allows the user to alert management of any sickness, accidents or other notifications that require real time action.
There are some answers to the above problems but one system that ticks all these boxes, as well as being affordable for all businesses, is U-CLOCK, a unique system for monitoring and managing remote staff using just a mobile phone.
