3 Apps That Can Boost Employee Performance in Your Organization

Would your organization’s results improve with greater employee productivity? Are your employees overburdened with low value, time-consuming duties that are holding them back? Is there a lack of engagement and communication between various teams and departments? Perhaps your company could be more productive, and employees would showing up for work more each day, with a fully digital office.

There are a number of mobile apps and websites available today that can help boost the performance of your employees. If your employees are performing better, it will have a positive impact on the bottom line of your balance sheet but more importantly, it would boost their morale and make them want to work harder. It would improve the trust factor between employees and the management and reduce attrition. Most of these apps can be set up in the existing system, are economical, and are easy to use. There is no communication lag or gap between the employees as these allow collaboration on a real-time basis, even between employees who are separated by a geographical distance.

Apps to Improve Employee Productivity and Job Satisfaction

1. Huddle: Huddle is an app that allows your employees to control the entire workflow. It allows them to understand what the tasks are on hand, how the workflow needs to be controlled or which tasks are to be delegated or which tasks need to be reviewed, etc. You can do all this on Huddle without going online. You don’t have to approve a file task without coming out from the task. It also allows discussions among different stakeholders.
2. When I work: If you are looking to create a schedule for your employees, you should use When I Work, which allows your employees to follow and stay connected with their schedules from anywhere. If there is a vacancy in a shift, you could notify the group and anyone connected can see it and if interested, can also choose it with a few clicks.
3. HipChat: HipChat is a chat tool that allows your employees to chat with each other while working in a team-based setup. They can also share files, do video chat and even share screens. An employee can chat with multiple team members simultaneously and chat history is generated that keeps track of all the conversions. It is truly useful for collaboration. [Editor's note: Slack acquired HipChat in 2018.]

Bonus: Greetly is a digital visitor management system. It greets guests and deliverymen, and efficiently connects them with their hosts. This frees up “near-the-door” employees to focus on their primary projects.

Conclusion

The workplace is constantly evolving. As technology becomes more prolific and less expensive, you have many disruptive apps to improve the way your office and your employees work. Start using them for injecting coherence and discipline into the system.