As business owners or company leaders, we spend countless hours worrying about how to ensure our employees are set up for success. We coach them and give them every opportunity we can. But there is one question we don’t ask often enough when it comes to our workforce: Are they happy?
Are your employees, generally speaking, satisfied with their workplace?
Today’s workers are quick to switch companies if they aren’t happy with their employers — young professionals, in particular, may often as much as four times in 10 years. Finding ways to keep valued employees happy while saving time and money for your business may seem like a fairy tale. But, with the right tools, apps, and automation technology, you can maintain a positive, engaged workforce and maximize workflow.
How can the right technology help employees stick around? Here are three simple ways:
1. Eliminate meeting overload
Meeting overload is an epidemic. Forcing employees to spend valuable time in unnecessary meetings will not only impede productivity — it won’t do much to improve morale, either. Luckily, by adopting some intuitive information-gathering tools, businesses can easily keep meetings to a minimum.
Instant messaging and project management tools can serve as great meeting replacements. With these tools, status updates and project check-ins can be quickly and easily…