5 Tech Tools for Non-Desk Teams

For non-desk teams, keeping everyone in sync and efficient can be hectic. Connecteam offers 5 amazing features to keep everything running smoothly.

Whether you’re in construction, cleaning services, field services, food and beverage, home care, manufacturing, or retail, tech tools are a great way to boost your productivity and efficiency. These tools can be SO helpful in easing a manager’s load, but they can be pretty overwhelming, especially if your manager isn’t very tech-savvy. Thankfully, Connecteam is a simple and easy-to-use platform that will fulfill all your needs (and more!) and fit right into your business’s workflow.

1. Simplifying Timesheets

Any non-desk team is used to timesheets that look like physical forms, like ones you might print out and fill manually, logging work, start and end of lunch, clocking out at the end of the day, and a tally at the bottom with hours and pay. Maybe on the side you’ll find overtime hours, adding them to your regular pay too. The long and short of it is, there’s a lot of manual calculation here. A system would make this much easier!

In Connecteam, the manager has a desktop view which allows for quick viewing of employee timesheets, approving times with a click, and if need be, detailed information into hours worked. Employees can clock in and out with the mobile app, streamlining the process and making it all much less confusing.

2. Task Management in One Place

Another central part of any non-desk team’s workflow is task management. Delegating the current task can be awkward when you’re not dealing with people sitting at their computers all day. With Connecteam, contractors can manage their tasks and subtasks, and their managers can ping them right on their phones, assigning them whatever is most urgent or valuable at any given time. The convenience of the mobile app means that no matter where your team members are, they have immediate access to their to-dos, ensuring that time-sensitive projects continue to move forward without delay. Managers can rest easy, knowing that their directives reach their team instantly and that employees can respond even while in the field.

I’ve talked about task management before in a lot of detail, so if you’re looking for even more information, I’ve got you covered. Whether your team is servicing equipment, assisting customers, or setting up for an event, Connecteam’s app is like having a control center in the palm of their hands.

3. Communication Made Easy 

A good team needs to be able to easily communicate with their managers, administrators, coworkers and colleagues. Nobody likes siloed teams, or finding out last minute about an issue that someone else knew for weeks. Connecteam has all you need right there. If you’re familiar with Slack or other instant messaging tools, Connecteam offers all of those features, but without all of those separate subscriptions. You have it all in one place.

You can create chats and group channels for your teams, separate or unite everything in any way that makes the most sense for you and your business, and even get notified when someone is or isn’t currently clocked in, helping you have better oversight and awareness of what’s happening in your daily operations.

4. Efficient Time Off Requests Handling

Nobody likes messy email chains and tons of paperwork, but that’s what happens when an employee asks for time off with manual tracking. We can safely leave all of that behind, using Connecteam’s time off solution.

You select the user and the type of time off, as well as the date and time. This determines the total time off hours. If an employee sends this in as a request, it’ll show up right on the manager’s desktop as pending approval. You’ll see all the contractor’s notes and details of the request, and then you can approve or reject it. It’s communicated to your contractor immediately. Quick and easy. You can also specify pay policies for time off and sick leave, which will be paid (or unpaid) to your employees accordingly with no extra input from you.

5. Streamlined and Integrated Forms

If you work with forms, Connecteam offers you templates to help you with anything you might need. Build an equipment sign out form, for example, from a template, and Connecteam will list all of that form’s fields within its platform, with even hard to get fields like signatures. You’ll get a summary as people complete it, with insights and responses, helping you keep track of everything in one place.

You can also preview how your form will look on mobile, so your employees or customers can easily fill it out wherever they are. Easy to set-up, maintain, and complete.

Conclusion

Connecteam is here to take care of your needs all in one fell swoop. Rather than juggling subscriptions, you can quite literally run your entire business from one mobile app. Check it out! You can start it for free with a 14-day trial, and if you run a small business with up to 10 employees, it’s free for life! Can’t get any better than that.

Have you tried it yet? Share your experiences with me in the comments below.