Automation can help you WFH!

Whether you’re swapping to remote work out of choice or necessity, your workday is set to change. You need to make clear how you’ll keep things running smoothly and effectively.

Having teams work from home presents different challenges than office working. And no matter your team or situation, you’ll naturally have concerns if you’re looking at working remotely.

That’s where Atgen A2 Automation can help. Here are some of the challenges you might face as teams increasingly work from home.

Stability

The transition from work at the office to work from home can raise concerns over stability. While everything is changing, it’s sometimes hard to keep the regular, run-in-the-background tasks running smoothly. This can have a knock-on effect — making your transition to remote work even harder.

So, how can you make sure the routine daily office tasks still get completed during the disruption of swapping to work from home? The answer, in part, lies with automation.

Automation can keep all your back-office tasks ticking over, even when you’re not in the office yourself. Think the repetitive but crucial daily tasks that keep your business running. Many of these tasks are routine, step-by-step processes that automation is catered for.

Rule-based automation platforms are only concerned with those rules. Once set up, your automation tool will get on with the tasks you set it – until you tell it not to. And it will do so on its own, quietly and consistently, 24x7x365. So, while your team get on with work from home, your baseline workflows and processes remain stable.

Productivity

When teams start to work from home, it can pose concerns about productivity. While managers worry that productivity will drop, workers worry that they’ll struggle to stay focused.

In general, studies have shown that employees that work from home are often more productive than those who work in an office. For instance, a study by Stanford found that the team members that work from home see a 13% productivity increase. But not everyone has the natural self-discipline that supports remote work.

As a tool known for helping teams maximise productivity, automation can help here too.

For example, automation can parse data for you, freeing up your remote team’s time to focus on other things. It’s all too easy to get caught up with little tasks and mindless admin. Even more so when there’s no one to spot you doing it. But with automation handling those tasks, there’s less fuel for remote procrastination.

Another productivity concern caused by the transition to remote work is one for teams. Some workflows are complicated. They require input from many people. When teams work from home, however, keeping track of a piece of work becomes more challenging. With automation, though, you can set up auto alerts to let you know when an urgent task needs your attention.

Automation helps you work from home

Ultimately, it’s this reliability that makes automation an essential part of your team’s work from home success. Where standard working days may face turbulence, automation remains a constant.

Automation software will keep your business ticking over in times of change, or disruption. It supports teams no matter where in the world they’re working. And it doesn’t tire or falter.

So, let automation help your teams while they work from home, with a free trial of Atgen A2 Automation.