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Vaillant, a leading manufacturer of gas and solid fuel domestic heating appliance boilers, called for Interchange’s help to install the latest GPRS mobile technology to enhance and develop its service and support business even further.
The solution helped out the company’s national service organisation Heatcall, which provides after sales support through it team of 100 engineers.
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According to the latest research, UK employees take more than 35 million sick days a year for personal reasons rather than for a genuine illness.
However, it was also revealed that nearly a third (29%) of employees would take less time off work if their organisation made flexible working provisions.
According to IT services providers, the advent of widespread broadband is supporting a significant shift in working practices across the UK.
Access to high–speed internet is enabling many professionals to work from home and avoid the often long and costly commute to the office.
Flexible working is one way HR managers can help motivate staff during the recession.
This is the view of experts who believe that the technology used in flexible working can make the lives of their employers easier, something that could be vital during the recession.
In a recent survey, 58 per cent of UK workers said that their firm has no flexible working policy in place at all.
Only 22 per cent revealed that they work for a business with a solid flexible working policy in place.
Many factors drive companies to make the move to remote and mobile working.
For some organisations the fact that staff need to travel to visit customers, perhaps to deliver vital services, means that there is often a focus on identifying ways of improving productivity ‘on the road’. This could, for example, be through the provision of more accurate and timely information, more interactive communications, or integrating mobile workers into key command and control systems.
Return on investment in these cases can usually be calculated using traditional business case methods. Cases have been published demonstrating potential ROI of over 150%, with payback within 5 months, according to Ipsos Reid research studies. Continue reading…
