As companies across the world shift to work from home due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, the new and flexible work schedule might give remote workers more freedom. While it can also be extremely distracting when you make your home an office.
During training sections, you’ll learn how to manage your business, employees and meet productivity but giving your employees work from home often makes it difficult to track them and their productivity.
So how exactly can you monitor employees working from home?
In this blog, we’ll discuss some techniques and methods to engage and monitor your remote working employees so you can be sure how they work and track their working activity.
4 Ways to Track Employees Working from Home
Here we suggest four ways to identify your employees’ activity and productivity while they’re working from home:
Home is also where the heart is, so most of the employees become lazy to work in a homely environment. It’s also sure that no work-from-home employee will work for a full 8 hours when they’re at home.
So how do you manage this situation? Set goals by enabling them to be productive and motivating to work hard.
Of course, setting goals is part of the employee’s job, therefore, you need to give them incentives and deadlines to finish a particular project regardless of the employees’ location. when the employee meets the deadline on time. You can make sure that their work is in progress.
The other method to track employees’ workload is to establish a particular schedule to communicate with them.
Conduct a 15-minute video chat with your employees on a daily morning and talk about what they have accomplished, what they are working on, and what they are planning to do next.
At the end of the day make your employees send a brief report explaining which project they completed, how much time they take to complete, which projects they’re currently working on etc.
You can’t make sure that every work from home employees are working or not. They can take advantage of this situation by using a social platform, mobile phones and whatever they can freely do as there are no colleagues to disturb them or don’t have someone to monitor them.
Here you can use some kind of employee productivity tracking tools to keep track of how your employees are spending time throughout the day.
Some of the productivity tracking tools you can use are:
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Time Doctor
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Harvest
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Paymo
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Timecamp
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These tools will help you track whether employees are visiting relevant websites or online applications and also monitors all websites and applications each employee uses while he or she is working.
It also sends a detailed report to you pointing out any unproductive sites or applications used by a team member, like YouTube or gaming sites.
It can be tricky to track projects and what is being worked on when an employee is working from a remote location. To make projects easier to follow, check out some project management software available.
Project management software comes in many different forms and there are hundreds of software to choose from, but they all have the same purpose: Trello and Basecamp are some top names.
These software helps your business to manage, organize, and assign tasks related to various projects. Similarly, you can see what tasks need to be done, what projects are in progress and who is working on it.
You can also monitor how long employees spend on each project. This software allows you to log in and see which employees are assigned to which projects and if any employees need more tasks to fill their day.
Let’s wrap up
More people are working remotely than ever before and keeping track of them is not hard after reading our blog. All the above-presented tools, techniques and methods can help you monitor your remote employees' work. If you implement these methods well, it can bring in a highly positive effect in your company. Following our tracking techniques will help you understand employee dedication and performance and also help you run a better business.
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