Remote work may be popular among employees, but for employers it has often resulted in wavering productivity. In part this is because it is difficult to manage employees using conventional management methods and tools, making their productivity largely dependent on how effective they are individually at managing their tasks and schedule.
If you’re looking for ways that you can improve the productivity of your employees working remotely, here are a few useful tips that should help:
- Set up a schedule
Total flexibility can be detrimental to remote work as it will make it difficult to coordinate within a team, follow-up on tasks, and hold discussions. Setting up a basic schedule for when remote workers are expected to be working or attending meetings will go a long way to ensuring things go smoothly.
- Use employee monitoring tools
Using Controlio or other monitoring software for employees like it will allow you to measure their productivity. It can calculate a productivity score for each employee and will provide you with insights into performance trends that you can use to determine whether or not action needs to be taken.
On top of that, Controlio can help make it easier to manage remote workers. It will help track attendance, work hours, and also determine whether or not employees are active or idle. If necessary it can even be used to block apps or websites that are distracting employees.
- Leverage communication and collaboration tools
Taking advantage of the right communication and collaboration tools can also play an important role in boosting the productivity of remote workers. It can make it easier for remote workers to touch base with one another, and to coordinate their tasks when working on projects together.
- Recognize and incentivize productivity
Make it a point to recognize employees who are productive, and incentivize it by rewarding them in some way. The remote workforce monitoring data from Controlio can be used to do this, and you can schedule weekly or monthly reports to be delivered via email that will easily let you identify which employees have been the most productive.
- Encourage employees to take regular breaks
One of the biggest problems remote workers face is the risk of burnout – and the best way to counter that is by encouraging them to take regular breaks. If you want you can use Controlio to track whether any employees are working excessively long hours without taking any breaks and have a quiet word with them if that’s the case.
Following these tips should be easy enough yet the impact they’ll have on the productivity of your remote workers should not be underestimated. The fact of the matter is that each of these tips can help you to maintain or improve productivity levels while ensuring that if they do slip you’ll know about it and can take action immediately.
To sum it up, if you’re looking to allow remote work it is essential that you take advantage of these tips to ensure that productivity doesn’t waver.
