As the entire world prepares for the aftermath of the unprecedented crisis, jumpstarting the economy will rely on new modes of measuring the performance and productivity of businesses. Time-based work will never be the same again.

Businesses might have to encourage their employees to work from home

What is the new standard of work that businesses will have to adapt to, especially during this pandemic? Working from home at a flexible time. With people no longer having to commute to the office, such time can be spent to work on important tasks in the comfort of their own homes. While working from home has its advantages, a common problem would be that the business owners and managers will find it difficult to check whether or not their workers are performing and completing their tasks diligently.

While work activities are also monitored, CXOs would need to periodically check the efficiency of their workers in terms of whether results are properly being delivered. This would allow them to address the performance of their workers, whether they are completing many tasks or logging on with the most hours. With some companies limiting to 50% of workers actively working, companies will need to exert maximum productive efforts to pick up business with the lack of manpower.

This should provide a perspective for businesses to think about in terms of productivity. How can one be sure to know that their workers at home are not slacking off or simply rely on being paid for their time? Those fingerprint biometric scanners are no longer being used as tools for keeping track of time if no one is at the premise using them. So what other tools are being needed now in place of these?

Businesses will need to implement and adapt to technologies

Because of this, companies will then have to adapt to new standards and implement new forms of technologies to measure, monitor, and analyze the productivity and performance in the workplace.

While there are plenty of programs and productivity apps that would monitor this like Trello and Slack, LogNWork is one of many mobile apps that help determine the productivity of workers in a simple way. It is a reporting tool that allows workers to record the important details of their activities within the day. Supervisors will be able to examine the number of hours worked, the work activities, and tasks completed during the day through the web portal version of the app, and can immediately determine whether or not the workers are fully performing and productive. Such simple apps like LogNWork should provide the necessary details for supervisors and CEOs to allow monitoring of work progresses of each and every worker as business processes need to continue rolling and operating smoothly despite the pandemic, such that each worker is paid in relation to their tasks completed and results generated.

As technology continues to evolve and e-meetings are becoming prevalent with the rise of Zoom and Google Meet, new and alternative ways of monitoring working hours for every worker is essential to allocating resources and funds properly. It is the new standard of how businesses will eventually come to realize that paying for time does not directly translate to generating results.