Category: Employee Self Service

Increase your Employee Overall Productivity!

Providing your employees with more control will increase their productivity according to a recent article done by Forbes. Statistics show that employees who feel ignored within the work place are actually less productive than ones who have been given more control.

In this day and age where everything is increasingly becoming digitalised, it is no wonder that more and more businesses are shifting toward digital alternatives for their organisational management practices.

A recent Forbes article reveals statistics that show that giving employees more control, or the impression of control will increase their productivity. Conversely, employees who feel disregarded, ignored, and unrecognised are statistically less productive.

Even more surprising, a recent study by Stanford University shows that productivity can also be increased by allowing your employees to work outside of the workplace. The study involved a company having its employees work from home for an experimental period of time, the result was a 25% increase in productivity and an annual saving of $2,000, per employee, for that company.

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ELF Productivity, Ltd. offers you a new way to digitalise your employee management: through our Employee Self Service system. Our self-service system allows your employees to access their own records via the Internet. Each employee has their very own secured user ID and password, ensuring that no one else can access their records except you.

Employees can view their precise clock-in times for the week, vacation days (remaining, and unused), any absences, and much more. Employees can clock-in from virtually anywhere, using this self-service system. They can also request vacation days, and add reasons for their requests as well as add reasons for their other absences as well! They can even message other users using this system – allowing for an in-house closed messaging system.

Incorporating our Employee Self Service system into your Human Resources department will allow your employees to clock-in from anywhere, making it possible for them to work outside of the workplace. The in-house messaging system will cultivate increased efficiency by allowing your employees to collaborate with ease and speed. These new versatilities will surely increase your employees’ productivity, as now they will feel they have more control over their employment and are free to work from anywhere! Contact us today to learn more!

Avoid Productivity “Speed Bumps” with Employee Self Service Software

When it comes to increasing employee productivity there are a number of things to consider. Do you increase your employees working hours or perhaps even provide them with more tasks, or do you simply motivate them to use their working hours in a better way. Removing distractions from human resources is one of the simplest ways in which you can improve your employees productivity levels.

What factors are involved in increasing productivity? The number of hours an employee works is a factor, but the way those hours are used is a bigger one. Distractions from getting the job done cause productivity speed bumps, and sometimes those distractions come in the form of completely ordinary, completely necessary, administrative tasks.

Common Speed Bumps

Many ordinary employee requests or needs require a brief conversation with a manager or HR person. If the employee can connect with the right person quickly, there is minimal impact to the workday. But sometimes a busy manager is hard to connect with. Many workers have had the experience of checking in at someone’s office several times during the day before they finally make that connection; constantly trying and failing to find someone creates a productivity speed bump.

Email is a more efficient way to handle some issues, but it doesn’t solve all problems. A misunderstanding in email can take several back-and-forth messages to sort out, worse, the volume of email some workers receive makes it too easy for an email to slip through the cracks.

Speed Bumps Send Productivity Off Track

Small speed bumps can turn into big problems. Imagine an employee needs to update their employment record because they have a new mobile phone number, they give the number to their supervisor or an HR person, but the note or email goes astray. The employee doesn’t think to check back with their supervisor to make sure their record is updated. A few weeks later, there’s an urgent need for someone to fill in a shift. The supervisor tries to contact the employee, but is unable to reach them because of their outdated employment record, all of a sudden, a minor oversight in record-keeping has become a big problem: not only is the company short-staffed for that shift, but the supervisor must spend more time trying to find someone to fill in. Future shifts may also be affected because of a backlog of work. The supervisor may need to postpone important tasks in order to handle the staffing issue.

Smooth the Way With Employee Self Service Software

HR software with an Employee Self Service component can eliminate many speed bumps. Requests for holidays or time off can be submitted via the system without needing to personally contact a manager. There is no chance of email or other messages being lost or misfiled. When an employee needs to update a piece of personal information, they are able to do it directly and immediately, which means employee data is always kept up to date.

Preventing speed bumps makes a big difference to productivity in the long term. Contact us today for more information about how our software can remove speed bumps for your business.

Help Put Employee Self Service To Operation With 3 Easy Steps

Employee self service is a cutting edge system that allows your employees faster access to any payroll information they may need as well as providing them with the ability to change their tax withholdings, personal details and bank information all without the need to contact HR.

If you are reading this then you may already have an idea of what employee self service (ESS) does, but if you are lost, we will give a quick explanation of what employee self service can do. When your employees use ESS they can have faster access to any payroll information they may need, including previous cheque stubs and tax statements. Additionally, employee self service allows employees to change their tax withholdings, mailing address, or direct deposit information without needing to contact Human Resources Department. Employees also have access to their personal information, schedules, documents, and company messages. That is a basic overview of what ESS can do for your employees. Once you have decided that employee self service sounds like a fit for your company and you want to implement this new technology, here are a few steps that will make ESS easier to use.

Common Goals

Are all the various departments in your business working towards the same goal? The goal should be to improve your employees’ happiness, increase production and increase profits. Employee self service software will free up your finance department and human resources department to focus on other aspects of operation, not need to search for every little piece of information an employee may need, or to always be changing personal information. Additionally, ESS opens up straightforward lines of communication for all your employees to work together, send invoices and set up meetings.

Daily Activities

Employees are more likely to use ESS on a regular basis if they have full access to all the capabilities it offers. You can set it up so that employees can easily clock in and out from work, view their schedule, and apply for paid time off; all of these actions can be done from anywhere. You can set up a shared schedule so that employees can easily have others cover for them in case of emergency, or appointments, so that you never need to worry about if you have a certain position covered. Employee self service can also allow access to all handbooks, documents, and OSHA policies, leading to a safer and more experienced workplace. Moreover, with ESS, messages can be sent to all employees and departments at the same time.

Train Employees

As fast as technology changes, there are still people out there that do not understand how to work new programs right away. Take the time to train all your employees how to use ESS to their advantage. Your software company should offer some type of hands on training and educational tools to increase everyone’s understanding of all the features offered by employee self service.

Taking these simple steps and doing the research beforehand to make sure your software is user friendly will make it easier for all your employees to adapt to the new programs and make full use of all the benefits it offers. Contact us to find out more about employee self service and other tips and tricks of putting it into operation.

The Benefits of Employee Self Service

There are several key ways in which employee self service can benefit your business. It reduces the workload of your line managers by providing employees with the ability to control their own work. It allows employees to take care of their time cards and breaks and it reduces the headache given to your upper management.

So, you are thinking about how Employee Self Service could benefit your business. There are several key ways: it reduces the work flow of your upper management; it leaves the employee in more “control” of their work and in turn empowers them; it reduces the need to police your employees because when you trust people they typically do the right thing on their own.

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Elf Productivity. A Ceequel Overview

Managing your employees time and attendance is crucial when it comes to the making or breaking of your businesses. Time and attendance systems allow you to monitor your employees total hours worked or number of hours worked on a single project. These hours can then be compared against standard hours and if employees have worked over their contracted hours bonuses can be calculated easily.

Time Management

Time management is a key area of any business and can make or break a new or developing organization. Time and Attendance systems are there to assist the monitoring of employees time, this can be as simple as calculating the total amount of hours worked or actually calculating the number of hours worked on a particular project, job or activity. These hours could then be compared to a standard and potentially a performance and bonus could also be calculated.

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