Your employees are your business’s most valuable asset, no question about it. Their talents shouldn’t be wasted on monotonous digital tasks that could instead be completed in a fraction of the time by intelligent RPA software bots.

A business can boast the best product, implement optimum marketing strategies, and have the perfect processes in place; but without a top-notch team of exceptional people, it won’t get very far.

So why would you waste your employee’s valuable time and expertise on completing dull, manual processes that slow down their productivity – affecting your business – and making that work a chore – affecting job satisfaction?

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a transformative technology that uses software robots to handle repetitive and high-volume tasks at top speed and with increased accuracy, freeing up the human workforce to focus on tasks that they do best, and enjoy most.

Below we take a look at some real-world examples of how RPA has transformed working conditions across a range of industries, resulting in significant time saving and improved employee satisfaction.

Time-saving 

RPA software has been successfully utilized across a range of industries to free up employees’ time to concentrate on more valuable work.

A large insurance agency reports that they save between 20 and 40 hours a day since implementing RPA technology. Larry H, a systems administrator at the agency says, “Our organization has improved because of the time savings. We’ve got robots now taking 10 seconds to do what people were taking four to six minutes to do. It’s a whole department of people that are now free to do other things.”

A major manufacturing company similarly reports that utilizing RPA on a high-visibility data entry project saved their retail managers roughly 5 500 hours a year.

Significate time-saving after RPA implementation is reported by a managing associate at a legal firm too: “Our processing time was reduced to half an hour from something that would have taken up the whole day (eight hours). This has freed up our legal staff’s time to focus on more important and strategic tasks.”

Improved employee satisfaction

Doing the same thing over and over every day is not only dull but can lead to poor employee morale. When automation software takes over these mundane tasks, employees are free to focus on more important work that stimulates them, leading to improved job satisfaction.

A department lead at a consultancy firm remarked that since the implementation of RPA software, employees can now “use automation and apply their brains somewhere fruitful.”

When human resources are no longer bogged down by time-consuming manual tasks like moving files, filling out forms, and extracting data from emails, they can focus on more important work, like collaborating on innovative business projects and interacting with customers.

At another consultancy, a developer noted that “A [RPA] robot takes [repetitive tasks] away and helps people enjoy their work a lot more because they can do non-repetitive tasks. They can be a lot more customer-facing and perhaps build stronger relationships with their customers, know them better, and have more time available to work on other projects or work on other things that they may never have had the time to do.”

Aaron F, a systems administrator at a manufacturing company remarked that since implementing automation solutions, he has noticed performance benefits with his staff. Since being relieved of some of the tedious tasks they previously used to spend time and energy on, they are significantly happier and more stimulated in their jobs.

Implementing RPA software to complete manual computer-based administrative tasks provides the workforce with more time to focus their energy on meaningful human tasks, not robotic ones. When they no longer need to waste valuable brainpower on mundane digital tasks, productivity will increase as will overall employee satisfaction.

Isn’t it time that you discovered how implementing RPA can save your business time, increase productivity, and boost employee morale?

Book a Discovery Call with one of our RPA Implementation Experts now.

Your employees will thank you.

 

When contemplating their growth strategy, many companies feel that they need to make a choice between growing their in-house team or leveraging a separate external provider. In other words, some people feel that an outsourced team and an in-house team are mutually exclusive. They’re not anymore.

Based on what we offer our clients, it’s now possible to build an outsourced team that’s so in sync with your internal team, that it’s essentially a part of it. Here are a few tips for how you can do it:

● Make a blueprint for your dream team before you start building it. Let’s say you need to hire 6 agents specialized in X- that part is fairly easy. What you also need to do is figure out how your outsourced team can complement your internal team, and how you see your outsourced team interacting with your internal team. We can help you with this.

● Once you know what you’re looking for, and what you’d like to accomplish, figure out the characteristics and skill profiles of the types of people you’d like to work with. We can present you with a wide array of pre-screened available candidates to you so that you can pick the perfect fit for each role.

● Devise a working schedule that provides for some time overlap between your internal team and your outsourced team, so that one team can pick up where the other left off each day, and both sides are fully in-sync.

● Visit your outsourced team, or have them visit you- especially in the beginning. Not only can in-person meetings bring everyone on the same page, but they can also be great for breaking down the distances and gaps that can often occur with outsourcing.

● Harmonize the direction and management of both your internal and outsourced teams. If both teams are working together and are otherwise interconnected, it’s important that both teams are managed together and follow largely the same direction.

If you follow the right steps, it’s quite easy to have an outsourced team that acts as an in-house team (despite costing much less). Feel free to reach out to us if you’d like to know more.

Perhaps you’ve recently closed your seed round, perhaps you’re building a new spinoff product, or perhaps you just need an additional set of developers. In any case, you need to hire the right development team, at the right time, in the most efficient way possible.

Unless you already have a powerful HR team, or you’ve contracted a recruitment agency; your hiring round is probably going to mean a lot of extra work for you. An alternative is to outsource, and frankly, it’s a great way to accomplish your goals without much added hassle.

Here’s why:
● You can design your perfect team while leaving the recruitment, vetting, and much of the onboarding to your outsourcing partner. Despite this, you can always pick who you work with in the end. In a nutshell, you get all the benefits of working with a recruitment agency and more- without the extra costs
● You can save on costs. Big time. If you outsource to a place like Romania or Serbia, these cost savings can add up to well over 50% of what you’d spend if you hired locally in somewhere like the US.
● You won’t need to worry about potentially having to get more office space or more supplies (ie. computers and desks). When you outsource, this is generally all included and comes at no added cost to you.
● You’ll save time. Adding to the first point, when you outsource, you’re able to select and onboard pre-vetted developers that are able to start working almost immediately. Because of this, you can have a team up and running in a few weeks instead of a few months.
● Pivoting is easier when you outsource. Since you’re able to cut down onboarding times and you’ll often have access to a wide range of available developers, you can easily add specialists to your team as needed.
● Outsourced teams can essentially act as in-house teams. When your outsourced developers are fully dedicated to working with you, and when it’s possible to have your developers occasionally come on-site with only a few weeks notice- you won’t notice much difference between having an outsourced team, or a in-house team.