Did you know that on average 15% of all paid time is non-productive??? If your business can identify where the lost time is, and then take measures to improve your employee's time, it can save your organisation significant amounts of money.
We hear of businesses saving circa ??100,000 a year in "recovered time" e.g. field engineers prevented from "knocking off" early or drivers from "disappearing off the radar" for an hour or two.
The outcome is more profitability - the big upside of using vehicle tracking to identify where the lost time is.
And it can also open the door for other opportunities to take place - powering better business decisions, for example, and driving increased customer satisfaction, ultimately leading to business growth.
Of course, it's not new that companies are using tracking technology as a mechanism to manage mobile workers.
But improving lost time is about identifying and understanding??how and why it is happening inside your business and not just when and where i.e. a collaboration between human talent and intelligent technology rather than a control mechanism and/or deterrent.
In order to determine this you need to understand what is taking place outside of your four walls, for all of your mobile workers.
Having basic information such as the number of customers visited and average time spent at a customer will help you understand, but, as with any technology related to data collection, people will continue to fear a loss of control over their lives and privacy.
The challenge is to introduce vehicle tracking in a way that is reassuring and beneficial, rather than scary, but also in a way that will allow employees to be in control.
Businesses should be encouraged to use vehicle tracking to optimise processes in which traditional approaches have not brought satisfactory returns. Mobile worker efficiency and process optimisation are good early targets.
From tracking and scheduling drivers and other employees in real-time, ensuring your drivers' safety on the road, staying on top of maintenance issues to reducing the amount of pain associated with managing drivers in the field, the business benefits speak for themselves.
In the vehicle tracking context it's about connecting the driver, their vehicle and the processes or workflows to the office and managed in real-time to deliver return on investment, save costs, reduce emissions, improve safety and guarantee their duty of care to employees. Vehicle tracking lets you stay constantly connected and in control. In the past, when a mobile worker left the office or a depot, contact and control was lost. That's now changed.
Ultimately, we're not controlling people with vehicle tracking, we are empowering them; coaching them and giving them the knowledge that helps them make a positive change in their performance and also their work-life balance.
If your business is making assumptions as to where your employees are throughout the day, you're probably losing hours and money.
Don't guess; understand exactly what's going on by utilising real-time visibility in all aspects of your organisation.
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