We asked 800 people who work in small companies what made them happy and what made them unhappy. It doesn’t come as a big surprise that unnecessary and inefficient paperwork was a major downer. A separate YouGov survey of small business owner/managers found that they struggled with flaky computers, inefficient technology and missing or poorly-filed information.
All this inefficiency is a hidden cost to businesses. Around 13 million people work in small and medium-sized companies in the UK – over half the workforce. If small businesses do not use reliable, effective technology to streamline paperwork, access the right information and get things done, they risk paying a high price in morale, productivity and efficiency.
Streamline paperwork. When it comes to paperwork, almost half (45.3 percent) of the people we surveyed would love to avoid form-filling and unnecessary paperwork. Four out of ten workers would love to have some help with basic admin tasks. A significant minority would prefer to catch up on their paperwork away from the office, using up time that would otherwise go to waste.
Find what you need. Almost a third (31 percent) of owner-managers struggled to access the right information quickly and easily. A similar proportion (27 percent) suffered from inefficient filing of documents. This means they spend several hours a week needlessly looking for lost information.
Make IT work for you. Gartner, a research firm, reckons that one in ten Notebooks is damaged each year. Tens of thousands of Notebooks are lost or stolen every year too. These risks put a huge premium on choosing Notebooks that are designed to be robust, reliable, long-lasting and secure.
This part of the site will help you address these problems and, in the process, achieve
the following objectives:
Discover new ways to streamline routine admin
Find information faster
Access information, even when you’re out of the office
Make sure everyone has the right information, when they need it
Let people do their admin at a time and place of their choosing
Keep data safe from theft and internet viruses
Reduce the amount of paper you have to store
MOT your IT kit to make sure it is reliable, effective and up to date
Learn how to protect your information from theft, loss and internet threats.
Imagine a company where information was at people’s fingertips, IT made people more productive and was more reliable and where happy employees concentrated on their work not on time-wasting paper-pushing, tracking down lost data or wrestling with unreliable kit. That would be a happy company with happy employees. It would also be effective and profitable.
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