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Tips to Manage Timelines of Telecommuting Employees

Employee productivity is what keeps any organization running and up on its feet. This is why employee engagement and productivity levels are considered crucial for any business and its revenue. To maintain progress and business profitability, it is the manager’s and team leader’s responsibility to ensure employees are meeting their deadlines, performing efficiently, and most importantly getting tasks done.

Failing to keep employees motivated and productive can have some negative consequences. Therefore, it is vital to keep track of employee productivity and performance. Although managers and team leaders have strategies to keep employees engaged and productive, are the same techniques effective for employees telecommuting?

The answer is neutral. Technological advancement has made a lot of things possible virtually that we usually do in person. Although monitoring employees in person and watching work performance by patrolling around might not be possible, you still have options for using tracking tools to monitor employee productivity. Though applications and software can be utilized for tracking purposes, there is more to monitoring employee productivity and employers must make sure to avoid legal pitfalls when employees work remotely. Here are some strategies to ensure employees are getting the work done:

1. Clear timelines and project expectations

Bound your employees to timelines and projects to avoid confusion. It allows employees telecommuting to manage their time well and understand by when the project is expected to complete. This way managers could be in control of deadlines and ensure employee productivity.

There are many software available that allows users to post updates on an online platform for colleagues and managers to overview. By using such software managers and employers can track the task given to employees and give their live updates using preferred means of telecommunication.

2. Check up with employees regularly

Assigning tasks to employees is not work done for managers. To ensure the work is done efficiently and progressed on time, managers are required to check up with employees regularly. It could be by calling up individually, or in group meetings to in-take updates and discuss plans for execution or ideas and suggestions.

Giving constructive feedback and taking employee feedback can help build up a smooth workflow, increasing productivity and flexibility to perform tasks.

3. Attendance

Just as done traditionally, attendance has to be checked for employees telecommuting. Using various forms of applications, this task has been made easier. However, only checking up once might not mean employees are productive. Managers and employers need to know the number of hours their employees are working.

Some software allows employers to track employee working hours and performance with consent. Employers can set time to activate monitoring software for transparency. For personal time or not working hours, employees can turn off the software, which could cut access to employers intruding on employees’ personal space.

Conclusion

Monitoring software can be useful but one must keep in mind that without consent or unauthorized monitoring can cause employers some legal ramifications.

With all the ways to keep monitoring employees and their productivity level, trust and understanding play a key role. If there is no trust then maybe the team is not ready for telecommuting.

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