Working from home used to be a novel experience that triggered amusing questions from curious minds: Do you wear pajamas all day?Do you work from your couch? How often do you have to video chat with your boss? The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 30% of Americans can work from home, and with our current public health crisis, the experience is no longer the unicorn it once was. Millions around the world are setting up shop at their dining table for the very first time. Not only is the shift an adjustment for individual workers, but many companies and universities as a whole are newcomers to efficient remote management. The swift plunge into full-fledged work-from-home status can quickly expose clunky processes within your organization—and slow your team to a grinding halt. But, if done right, well-oiled digital process automation can save time and money across your entire organization.
Approvals via email eliminates time-consuming manual processes
Even in ordinary times, communication is of utmost importance. Your company’s communication culture often starts and ends with how you interact internally. When you’re not able to pop by a team member’s cubicle to ask a quick question or pass off a paper file, you have to start looking at every process from a fresh perspective. Now that your workforce is distributed across town and maybe even time zones, physically walking paperwork up to the next rung on the approval ladder is an impossibility. Platforms like ProcessMaker can digitize the stroll to the dean’s office and condense the process down to a few clicks of a button within a single email. Even day-to-day forms like a leave of absence request can pile up into a half dozen emails. Drag-and-drop tools train ProcessMaker to direct the request to the correct person’s inbox and allows them to click “accept” or “reject” without leaving their email client.
