It’s clear that the ever-evolving field of IT has led to numerous advancements that enable human capabilities. Technology has inspired a huge change in the global workplace culture, and IT has the potential and power to help us rehumanize work. Today’s tech isn’t just a substitute or supplement for employees but it’s actually a method to help them improve who they are – enabling humans to become better humans and teams to become better teams.

Rather than doing the same work faster and with fewer people, IT creates an opportunity to redesign jobs and workflows to enable people to focus on the parts of work that humans are particularly good at, such as relationship building, intuitive decision making, empathy, and problem solving. Employees are able to spend more time engaging with work that inspires and interests them, which in turn increases productivity and overall employee happiness.

Leveraging IT to Empower Employees

How do we unlock creativity and innovation in employees to bring out the best in everyone in the organization? In the context of employee empowerment, it’s about equipping your team with the resources they need to be more efficient, innovative, and engaged. The modern workplace uses technology and processes to simplify employee experiences, support them in their creative work, and facilitate secure collaboration to overcome geographic and other barriers. The benefits for your employees:

• Boost Productivity & Efficiency: Automation tackles repetitive tasks, freeing up valuable time for higher-level thinking. Data-driven insights optimize workflows and decision-making, leading to a productivity surge.
• Empower a Positive Employee Experience: Collaboration tools like cloud platforms and video conferencing break down geographical barriers, fostering seamless teamwork. Flexible work arrangements, enabled by technology, contribute to a more positive work-life balance.
• Spark Innovation & Creativity: Access to cutting-edge technologies like AI and big data analytics empowers employees to explore new ideas, solve problems creatively, and develop groundbreaking solutions.
• Upskilling & Reskilling Opportunities: The digital landscape is evolves, and your team needs the skills to navigate it. Expanding the integration of technology provides a framework for upskilling and reskilling initiatives, ensuring your workforce possesses the latest knowledge to succeed.
• Improved Employee Engagement & Morale: A culture of continuous learning empowers employees and allows them to take ownership of their professional development. This leads to a more engaged and motivated workforce with a higher sense of morale.

The Human Workplace

As technology brings greater efficiency to the work environment, let’s take the opportunity to make our workplaces as human friendly as possible. What does a workplace need in order to protect its most valuable commodity – the employees? A workplace experience that is developed and guided by human needs – a high performing, legacy-leaving, enjoyable workplace:

Contribution: Employees have a need to give, express care and serve something bigger than themselves. Let’s face it, we all want to be clear about what we are expected to contribute at work and how our efforts support the mission. It’s not a new idea but tapping into it is like pouring rocket fuel into our performance tanks. When we feel our efforts clearly make a difference, it positively exploits our powerful human need to make a contribution.

Connection: This is our need to feel part of and accepted by a community of people. Predictions are that we’ll start to see more organizations looking deeper at how they can support the sense of belonging and community within their teams – especially as remote work expands. This need will not ‘evolve’ out of us, so we need to evolve better ways of curating great social connections across our companies.

Growth: Employees need to have a sense of progress where their skills, knowledge, careers and lives are concerned. Being able to learn and feel like we have the potential for growth is vital to our enjoyment of the workplace – as well as the retention of talent within an organization. Growth occurs naturally where we have diverse inputs and partnerships, as it can supercharge our ideas. So whether it’s growth through learning or growth by exposure to difference – we all need to feel that sense of progress about our lives.

Create Connected and Inspired Teams

Your business is only as good as your people. Digital collaboration technology is vital to your organization’s productivity and employee satisfaction. Empowering a connected workforce means putting end users at the forefront of your IT strategy. By optimizing IT resources, employees can more easily share cross-functional insights with their teammates, helping everyone better understand the bigger picture view of the organization.

Enable a workforce that’s productive, connected and inspired, by entrusting a partner to handle the heavy lifting of everyday IT operations. A partner who can provide workplace services or a managed office solution to simplify your IT. Empower your employees to work smarter. We’ll help connect your workforce and create meaningful employee experiences. Empower your employees to work smarter and connect with PointSolve today.