One of the most important and cost-saving measures a company, whose employees travel and do not necessarily sit in a cubicle or desk each day, can take is to accurately track and monitor employee movements and time. The more customers that receive your goods or service in a timely manner, the more money you ultimately make, right? So, think about it. Do you have technicians that spend far too many or too few hours at a job site? Are they completing too few jobs in a day or spending a lot of time on the road? Is this affecting your company’s overall bottom line? Being able to strategically monitor these times and movements is important to ensure your employee’s safety, control your company’s labor costs, and protect your company’s reputation.
One way many companies monitor off-site field technicians, sales representatives, or any other employees who spend time outside the office is through geo-fencing. Mobile geofencing apps allow you to enter an address, perhaps the locations your employee should be working on that day, and geofencing creates a defined radius around that area. It also sends alerts when that person enters and leaves their specified geofence. In addition, you can set radius and time limits, so each day you start fresh with new points of location.
Many geo-fencing apps are extremely versatile and give you the best of both worlds. From tracking an employee’s location to time spent at each job site, there are a plethora of apps that can provide these services and more. Apps like this can save your company huge amounts of money by reducing overtime, idle wait time, and even optimizing the best routes to take to and from a job site (saving more time and fuel cost as well). Some geofencing apps allow employees to clock in and out, show accurate GPS mapping of all locations, and even permit workers to enter in work orders from their mobile devices, all of which can be monitored from the comfort of your desktop back at the office.
These apps are literally life-savers of all the hassle of old-world technology. New-age geo-fencing apps grant you the capability to do so many more things than ever before. Now, you can set up an employee geo fence, and track how long you or an employee spends at that location. Another benefit of these apps is that they allow you to enter in your worksites, and some will automatically start with you arrive and stop when you leave, minimizing the need to continually pull out your phone throughout the day. You can organize jobs, projects, and customer information as well. And many of these apps are free! What more could you want?
Geo-fencing can literally take your business from being fenced in financially to being GEO-ready on-the-go!
