When it comes to improving productivity, automation is a powerful tool. It can streamline operations and facilitate more consistent results. Plus, it can give your employees more time to focus on activities that genuinely require the human touch, freeing them from repetitive tasks with consistent executions and little need for human insights.
Precisely how automation can improve employee productivity depends on how the technology is implemented. However, in nearly any iteration, the gains can be significant. Here is a look at a few ways automation can help improve employee productivity.
Tackling Repetitive Tasks
Automation can take repetitive tasks off of the plates of your employees. Many activities in the workplace are done in the exact same fashion every time. There’s essentially no need for human insights along the way. As a result, the employees handling those responsibilities are spending time on work that isn’t taking advantage of their full capabilities.
For example, many business reports are standardized, requiring the same information each time they’re created. By using an automated report generation tool, the system can retrieve necessary data and apply it to a preset format. With that approach, you get consistent documentation that includes all the needed details without manually creating the report.
In turn, employees who would usually handle those reports won’t need to dedicate the time and energy to that duty. Instead, they can refocus their efforts on responsibilities that require human insights, leading to higher cumulative productivity while ensuring all the necessary tasks happen on time.
The same approach can be used for other activities. For example, candidate sourcing typically involves identifying potential matches by comparing applications, resumes, or online profiles to a set of keywords.
With automation, you can create a system that finds and presents potential matches based on the criteria you set. Hiring managers or recruitment professionals can then spend their energy reviewing candidates already identified as strong fits instead of wading through a slew of poor matches to find the needle in the haystack.
Eliminating Redundant Activities
Many companies have several systems that rely on the same datasets. In years past, the only way to get the data into every system was to enter it manually or go through a data retrieval and uploading process. Both of those options can be cumbersome. Plus, with manual data entry across several systems, errors can occur, harming the integrity of the dataset.
With automation, you can eliminate the need for redundant data entry. Through the strategic use of integrations, a single dataset is accessible in every system. Whether it resides in one location or is automatically transferred into every system, you’ll have the same information across the board.
Since the data isn’t entered by hand, error rates also drop. As a result, you have improved data integrity, ensuring that any subsequent action that uses the information is working with accurate data.
Ultimately, automation can improve employee productivity dramatically. If you’d like to learn more, the team at The Squires Group can help. Contact us today.
