Poor Collaboration and Communication Reduces Business Productivity
Employees work on teams that are spread across office space, across the city, country or even across the world. Having employees spread across multiple locations means employees need to effectively collaborate and communicate to successfully get work done.
We have all worked on projects that missed deadlines due to lack of proper documentation and communications. The likelihood of this happening increases exponentially when teams are spread across multiple locations.
Lack of good communication tools impact employee productivity. Imagine employees walking across the hall to communicate with other employees. This can easily add up to hour of wasted productivity in a week.
When employees can easily work together and communicate with each other, their productivity increases.
Office 365 Provides Cloud tools to Improve Business Collaboration and Communication
Office 365 provide cloud tools to help employees work together better. The Office 365 Business Essential plan cost $5/user/month. This will help businesses make the most of their IT budget and resources.
This provides each user with Cloud Applications for better collaboration and communication.
- Exchange Online provides business-class email and calendaring.
With OneDrive for Business, each user gets one terabyte of cloud storage for file storage and sharing. - Businesses also get an intranet site through SharePoint Online so it can easily to host resources and documentation for your team to access and share.
- TeamSites provide employees with collaboration and communication tools that will enable them to connect to documents and information, collaborate on content with colleagues, and share files virtually anywhere, any time.
- Skype provide the ability to host online meeting and networking tools that will help employees connect and make decisions more quickly. It also includes instant messaging (IM), audio, video, or web conferencing. Employees can host virtual whiteboard with employees from across the world.
- To improve communication, businesses can adopt Yammer. This provides an internal social networking platform.
Businesses can upgrade Microsoft Office Applications to Office 365 Business Premium Plan for even better collaboration and communication. This provides features like Modern Attachments, which automatically updates emailed attachments. The plan also provides users with fully installed Office applications on up to 5 devices.
Contact us to find out how we can help your employees collaborate and communicate more effectively.