What Your Business Needs to Capitalize on Remote Work

Is your organization equipped with the required tooling to adopt remote working strategies? Remote workers have a remarkable amount of benefits to contribute to your business’ operations. Remote work is not feasible without a well-thought-out strategy, however. Do you know what your business needs in order to capitalize on remote workers? 

Communication & Collaboration Solutions

Remote workers would be futile without the capability to communicate with them. What good is an employee working on a task if they are not able to send what they are working on to you? Keeping open lines of communication between you and your employees is imperative in maintaining a successful remote workforce. Employees should be using tools such as email, chat platforms, video conferencing, and VoIP. 

Employees also should have collaboration solutions within reach. Employees who are able to share files or work “side-by-side” despite being hundreds if not thousands of miles apart, will benefit your business much better than an employee who can't collaborate with his team. 

Project Management Tools

Direction is critical with any project. Keeping your staff up to speed and pointing them in the right direction doesn’t have to be hard just because they are a remote worker. In fact, if using a chat platform, employees often are able to stay on task more effectively. When a project manager requests an objective to be completed, employees can use their message as a checklist.

Upcoming deadlines, along with a fluid schedule, are triggers to work-related stress. Utilizing a reliable project management solution can make remote workers feel as though they are on a team, all working towards one goal of business success. 

Cybersecurity

If protecting your business from cyberattacks is critical to you, then your remote workers must be well equipped before they access even a byte of data. Remote workers should be using multi-factor authentication measures, and all software needs to remain up-to-date.

A password management system would be classified as cybersecurity, especially when remote access is involved. These systems prevent your data from getting into the wrong hands.

Time-Tracking Software

An imperative part of remote work is time entries; without them, it is hard to tell if your employees are actively doing their job. Below is a hypothetical situation from a careless business owner.

David, founder of Uncomfortable Beds Inc. hired a remote employee to do his accounting. The employee promised productivity and efficiency but hasn’t been delivering. One day David remotely accesses his station to examine what is going on. It turns out that his employee regularly goes idle for hours at a time. This would have been easily noticed with reliable time-tracking software.

Implementing time-tracking software can simplify tasks such as payroll, allowing you to spend the saved time on other business affairs. 

Macro Systems has experts who can help your business simplify remote work technologies, as well as make your remote practices much more secure. To learn more, reach out to us today at 703-359-9211!