How your business can thrive with remote workforce management going forward

Suddenly, remote work is now our reality, even if you hate managing it.

Does managing a remote workforce leave you feeling blind and without control?

Is it harder to communicate with your teams and manage your operations during this crisis?

Did you know that more than 90% of business owners were not prepared for this situation?

We are all in crisis as the economy has grinded to a halt. As we grapple with the current pandemic of COVID-19 and the disaster it has caused to our cash flow, we are left to figure out how to shift our operations to a less cohesive structure of remote work. Emergency loans and cutting costs are very short term fixes. What happens when everything comes back from this forced situation?

How will your business make money in this new reality?

The problem all of us now face is both current requirements for social distancing and future disaster planning. We know this won't be the last pandemic we face and there is greater potential for disasters going forward. Business continuity and resiliency are now more important than ever. But there are advantages to remote working that both employees and employers can realize.

What opportunities will remote work offer your business and your employees?

You can continue to struggle for survival or shift operations to a less centralized organization, which means less office space to pay for among other things. Planning to transition your staff to a more permanent remote operation eliminates commuting time and creates a more vibrant work culture for individuals. This provides immediate benefits to your employees and reduces travel costs. It can also improve employee performance and productivity. However, both employer and employee must be on the same page and have proper guidelines in place to create a valuable culture of productivity. There are also remote workforce management tools and software solutions that provide the framework for better management overall.

While video-conferencing and project management software are available to help, it is already evident that both security and accountability are critical issues that are compromising business. This means that organizations are losing work hours and knowledge management, which is critical to their success. Furthermore, it means you won't be able to succeed unless you develop more cohesive teams that are working remotely. Remote workforce management requires robust tools and seamless integration that increases productivity and saves time.

A recent Gartner CFO survey shared that 74% of management surveyed intend to shift some percentage of their workforce to remote work permanently. This means that more companies will require better ways to keep their employees accountable and communicating effectively. Even more important is the organizational need to protect their employees information and communications as they work cohesively from separate locations.

Where will your organization save money with a remote workforce?

Agility and transparency are now critical to a successful business future. Having the ability to save money, time and resources does not work if the results do not meet the expectations for organizations and their clients to work together. One of critical problems business is currently facing is the lack of continuity in managing a workforce remotely. There are lots of individual tools available, but security is an issue and there needs to be seamless integration of resources, communication, performance, tracking, reporting, and billing. This will dramatically enhance results and surpass collective expectations.

Fortunately, TransparentBusiness has developed a platform specifically for remote workforce management. Integrating all of the important aspects of business operations into one efficient system that allows managers and executives to quickly understand their resources, performance and results, the system is designed to increase productivity and save time, creating stronger, measurable growth.

Some of the key features of the TransparentBusiness platform include:

• Cloud based, CIA-level encryption security in a Software as-a-service solution that provides end-to-end transparency for organizations and their clients to look at their employees and project performance, which means that business can occur with more trust and confidence between organizations

• Recruiting and onboarding employees to create a full profile of work and performance, which means you have all of your human resources information in one location to identify the right assets for the right projects

• Project creation for developing teams and assigning employees to projects, which means you can effectively track and measure project performance based on individual assignments and task completion

• Interactive Gantt Chart and project performance ability to create workflow and file management, which means that you can track and measure in real time how projects are going, where challenges have occurred and what is necessary for deliverables to be provided on-time

• Central chat for team and organizational communication that offers instant messaging inline, which means that individuals have both immediate access to their colleagues and a protected record of communications for accountability

• Real-time monitoring of work hours and actual work that includes automated screenshots of the employee desktop, which means history and effectiveness can be measured in actual time increments for managers and executives

• File management and sharing in centralized location with unlimited capacity, which means that project teams and managers can have a single location for all knowledge management to be shared as a resource

• Effective cost-management including accurate billing hours and reporting for stronger invoicing that offers clients detailed understanding of how projects are performing and milestones are being met, which means greater confidence in project success and stronger alignment in results meeting expectations

Designated by Citigroup as the "top people management solution", TransparentBusiness has rapidly attracted the attention of many of the world's largest organizations as the most robust and effective remote workforce management solution. More importantly, companies like ADP, Telefonica and PwC are already moving their organizations in the direction of more permanent remote positions.

Right now is the best time to get you company onboard. TransparentBusiness offers a free two-week trial to get your team familiar with the system. Once onboard and familiar, the system is just $1 per day per user. The system automatically records users work as long as they are logged into the system and keeps your business completely transparent.

If you are interested in learning more or scheduling a demo, please click here or email [email protected] for more information.

There is no better time to get onboard and start preparing for your organizations future. Why wait until things are even more chaotic or hectic? Now is the best time to transition your team and your business in a direction that will create a more valuable, dynamic, and cost effective organization for your future.