Streamlining global workforce management is more possible than at any other time in history. The advancement of mobile and cloud-based technology and the development of advanced management software empower businesses to coordinate teams worldwide. Whether you’re putting together a remote force of experts or seeking to establish business locations on every continent, it is possible to connect and coordinate teams in every time zone using the latest technology.
The key for each global business is to choose the right set of tools that will help your far-flung team achieve efficiency as a unified workforce. Let’s dive into the many fantastic technologies in global workforce management now available to the international business community.
The Cloud Brings Your Business Everywhere
The cloud is an infrastructure of physical and virtualized servers. There are cloud server locations all over the world, networked to relay data to a global workforce. Each virtualized server can clone itself, and its data to other servers, achieving global data availability. This allows international workers to gain fast, same-region access to your business data, which will update automatically when changes are made through any of the global relay points.
Each cloud service provider has access to regions and service areas based on the cloud infrastructure they choose. Azure and AWS are the two leading cloud networks with the largest global region coverage.
You can connect your operational servers to the cloud to streamline global workforce management. Choosing cloud-based services also gives your team access to SaaS business platforms with the same data alignment benefits as the cloud each service operates from.
Telepresence Creates Global Presence
Telepresence has advanced by leaps and bounds since the original video conference for remote and global. Meeting software makes it possible to bring together 2 to 20+ people into a dynamic meeting. Those meeting members can share screens, present slides, work with a digital whiteboard, and so much more. Virtual meetings can now rival the interactivity of live meetings.
Camera technology also makes it possible to blur the line between in-person and remote attendance for a truly hybrid experience. Wide-angle cameras can identify each person to give them a separate telepresence frame, and advanced microphone technology can intentionally pick up each voice with clarity while filtering out background noise or echoes from remote members’ mics.
Mobile screen technology can also bring distant team members back into the conference room with your choice of projection screens, table screens, or even telepresence robots on wheels.
Collaboration Software Facilitates Global Teams
Remote team productivity tools include collaboration software, which allows a team to work remotely on the same project together. Team members can leave notes for one another, create and resolve issues, co-edit documents, and keep records with personalized version control. Each collaboration software product may be specific to a certain industry, type of business, or department, specializing in specific types of projects, from document management to product engineering.
This type of project management software is useful for any team. However, it is especially powerful for remote or global workforce management. Collaborating virtually with live notes, chat, and changes allows team members to work on a project regardless of location. They can work together as effectively as if they were sharing an office and conversing in person about each change.
Mobile Technology Empowers Travel
Your global workforce management also involves the potential for technology-empowered travel. Travel is essential when running a global business. Establishing new locations, training leadership in various locations, relocating employees within your network, or sending experts to apply their specialty at various locations: all require travel. Not to mention conference attendance and working vacations.
Technology-empowered travel is what makes the modern pace of business possible. Employees can work offline on planes and trains. Then can check emails and even clock in a few work hours after getting to the hotel. They can stay connected while visiting distant sites or meeting with clients.
The perfect combination is a high-speed laptop, a hotspot that provides high-bandwidth cellular data, and cloud-based business software. With these tools, any employee can connect, whether they are currently in transit or away from their home and office. Add a smartphone, and they gain full versatile mobility to stay connected even when they can’t set up a workstation.
It is possible to stay in touch when sending employees temporarily to a new location. You can send employees to conferences and other industry events or to meet with clients using mobile timekeeping for business trips. Then coordinate your strategy or provide materials over the cloud. It is also more possible for employees to travel for personal reasons, working from anywhere while traveling the world or taking working vacations.
Advanced Schedule Planning Software Aligns Global Efforts
How do you coordinate global workforce management? The answer is advanced schedule planning software. The latest software for time and team management provides multiple visualizations of your schedule. You can see each schedule color-coded and layered over a calendar or daily time blocks. You can track by team, person, and time zone.
This will give managers the tools they need to coordinate teams whose days and nights don’t align. Global remote teams and teams in various locations can achieve meetings in those optimal schedule overlaps while sending asynchronous data over the cloud when schedules do not line up.
Building Your Global Workforce
Of course, the first step to streamlining global workforce management with the latest technology is to build your global team. BrightR is a professional Employer of Record, providing international access to the Canadian labor market. We can connect you with technical specialists based on your industry and business needs, helping you build remote teams or establish Canadian business locations.
BrightR excels at helping businesses to build the right team using the right digital HR solutions for successful global workforce management.
Whether you are a small and growing business or a large business ready to expand once again, you can rely on our EOR services. Contact us to discuss your specific hiring needs and the solutions we provide.
