{"id":50235,"date":"2020-05-12T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=50235"},"modified":"2022-10-26T22:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T05:15:03","slug":"why-now-is-the-time-to-enhance-the-employee-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/au\/blog\/why-now-is-the-time-to-enhance-the-employee-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Now Is The Time To Enhance The Employee Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before COVID-19, many companies offered flexible working arrangements but employees usually needed a reason to take it up. Only a few organisations were agile enough to allow employees to work from home on a regular basis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, with social distancing restrictions beginning to ease, many employees are asking the big question: Can I still work from home<\/a> once this is all over? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just like customers, employee expectations are changing as cloud technology empowers people to work with more flexibility and have access to more information now than ever before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If your organisation is considering making working from home a permanent option, here\u2019s a few tips on how you can enhance the employee experience and keep them engaged no matter where they are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Goodbye internal emails. Hello Slack and Chatter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If your organisation hasn\u2019t already embraced work-based social networking tools, now is the time. Tools such as Slack and Chatter<\/a> make it easier for people to collaborate as users can swap messages, share files and create personalised newsfeeds as they would on Facebook or Twitter. This makes it easier for employees to keep track of information and reduce clutter in their inboxes. Plus, there\u2019s little need for user training since the platforms are intuitive and familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Streamline sharing of internal documents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After working remotely, employees will expect access to information anytime, anywhere and on any device to continue. Before business returns to \u2018normal\u2019, look at how your company plans to share work-related documents on a long-term basis. This could involve reviewing your company\u2019s intranet to see how it can streamline onboarding and administration processes to empower employees to get relevant information quickly from anywhere. This way, employees can check the policy for parental leave from their mobile devices, without having to email HR, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n