Your hard work pays off and your business is growing from a small space on a small street to multiple locations. Well, that’s not new to us. Businesses across the globe increasingly need to expand their reach into new markets— domestic and international.
But expansion brings challenges. You as an HR manager would be forced to manage multiple locations and oversee employees in distant offices. Few of your employees will have to be mobile for meeting clients, representing your company at events, or for making the product sell.
Workforce mobility is a complex topic in itself and is a very wide topic to write about. Here, I will limit my discussion to tips and tricks managers can use with their mobile workforces.
The lack of processes and integrated reporting technologies is challenging for the HRs and managers, when it comes to sketching travel plans and managing expenses.
Sometimes, it’s not even possible to find the costs involved and to account for actual expenses. In most cases, the data is produced in different formats and file types by multiple employees, and then manually transferred into a final report. In certain cases, this can even go unsupervised altogether.
To streamline this entire process there involves a lot of administration. There is so much paperwork to deal with and activities to document. What are the exact activities involved and what are some things that HR and Administration Managers have to handle? How do you make yourself ready for a mobile workforce?
This story is from the October - November 2016 edition of People and Management.
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