Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Unified Communications Increases Employee Productivity While Reducing Expenses

Unified communications can combine innovative technologies that include multiple collaboration applications into one network, which will significantly reduce telecommunication expenses and IT. Additionally, it has been proven to increase employee productivity.

Studies indicate that businesses that use unified communications have the ability to save almost 2 hours of each workday per employee. The power of "presence" technologies, where coworkers have immediate access to coworkers that are available in real time, also serve as an avenue to save time while increasing productivity. The abilities of presence technology can save 30 minutes per person each day through the reduction or elimination of downtime. Additionally, the technology provides employees a way to make contact with other available Associates on their first attempt.

Workers often waste significant amounts of time during their workday by simply trying to navigate through multiple messaging systems. Using a unified messaging alternative, workers can save an additional 40 minutes each day. This opportunity exist because a unified messaging system combines emails, voicemails and fax services into one interface, significantly diminishing the need to access each messaging system individually. They also suggest that unified communications can dramatically increase productivity of employees by up to 23%, by simply abolishing all inefficient collaboration.

Increase Productivity Using Mobility

In the ever evolving world of technology, mobile has become king. With unified communications, the next generation of collaborative technology allows decision-makers a simple way to integrate their mobile devices into a single network. The results create an easy avenue for every individual to save nearly 30 minutes of every day by diminishing delays of productivity and enhancing responsiveness in their workplace.

It suggested that with the continuing growth of media tablets and smart phone usage, the next five years will likely produce a higher level of IT consumerization. To stay ahead of the curve, business enterprises need to take a direct approach by " mobile enabling " the company's IT infrastructure. This will allow their employees to take full advantage of mobile device usage, to optimized the business enterprise IT environment.

Through the leverage of unified communications, businesses and organizations can increase productivity and results by embracing cooperation from employees in the workplace. Taking a positive approach, organizations can dramatically improve employee productivity by eliminating redundant and preventable maintenance costs. This will allow the decision-makers to reallocate the dramatic savings to other critical processes in the organization.


Jason Stephen Ali
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