What a challenging and worrying time! We are facing unique challenges in a fast-changing environment – who had even heard of COVID-19 three months ago?
Many colleagues will need to work from home and unfortunately, we can expect an increased incidence of sick reporting. Industries such as manufacturing/distribution/retail, for example obviously must have colleagues on site, but in the coming days with school closures etc businesses may have to get creative to unlock the required man hours from the available staff.
We are getting increasing questions from clients as to how CaptureIT can help meet some of their challenges, so we thought we would put together quick guide of what’s available.
This is installed on a PC and allows clocking in and out, to lunch, to jobs and to see “who’s in” – perfect for users using VPN into a company network whilst working from home.
This web site delivered feature that can be accessed either Extra or Intranet based, no PC install is required.
This has the same functionality as the Remote Clocking Utility – perhaps better suited to the larger organisation where installing on a lot of clients is not desirable, or in an environment where colleagues are using their own devices.
This web site delivered feature that can be accessed either Extra or Intranet based, no device install is required.
The MCU has much the same functionality as the Remote Clocking Utility (who’s in and some reporting is not available) – perfect for clocking from mobile phones.
The clocking’s can be geo-located so you can see (on a map) where they were made from.
This web site delivered feature that can be accessed either Extra or Intranet based, no device install is required.
This supports a whole raft of sophisticated functions:
For those businesses requiring ‘feet on the ground’ of the workplace family care commitments, self-isolation absence and general difficulty of life issues may cause issue with getting sufficient productive man hours available.
Whilst none of us can do much about self-isolation etc. childcare issues are likely to become a very real issue as schools close and the caregiving services of Gran and Grandad won’t be an option for most given the current situation.
As organisations we are all going to have to get creative in managing the requirements that childcare etc may place on colleagues – this is especially problematic in the manufacturing/distribution type business where ‘home working’ is simply not viable.
Options here are likely to include flexitime and shift working (will many businesses have to run morning and afternoon shifts to allow one parent to perform family duties then swap to the other parent each working different shifts?).
CaptureIT can inherently and easily cope with these situations and provide support to enable back office staff to work from home.
If you feel that any of the above might offer solutions to the challenges you’re facing right now, or shortly may face, please don’t hesitate to contact us to discuss how we can help.
Please stay Well and Safe,
The CaptureIT Team.