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As a manager, you are readily aware of the wide range of potential disruptions in the workplace and how this can impact employee happiness, efficiency, and productivity. However, as you need to keep things moving at a steady and successful pace, it’s vital to understand how to maintain productivity even when disruptions occur. Here, you can see a variety of possible disruptions and understand how to overcome them.
Offer Remote Working
If the disruption has become so extreme that there is no way you can use the office, remote working is the best solution. There’s every chance that your business may already offer remote working, so this shouldn’t be too difficult to implement. However, some businesses prefer to keep everyone in one place. This may not be possible with some disruptions, such as medical problems or significant site and structural damage. You may prefer to have a rotating team, with some working from home one week and another team doing so the next.
Have A Backup Plan
It’s always essential to have a backup plan so you can avoid disruptions immediately. As long as you know what to do, whether following a power outage or common IT mistakes, including security breaches, you will drastically minimise downtime within the office. Ideally, you should have backup systems, such as generators or other servers, that will activate to maintain the workday and keep everyone working to their best ability while avoiding the pitfalls of unexpected disruption.
Develop a Plan With Contractors
Sometimes, you know all about disruptions long before they occur. This is usually with building works and renovations. As you know, this is happening, you can work with the contractors to develop a plan for reducing disruption within the workplace. This could include highlighting the need for frost blankets around the entrance and providing a different entry point for employees and clients. Think about whether building works will be too loud for your team to operate properly. If so, be prepared to let everyone work from home, or speak to the contractors to reach a compromise.
Provide Thorough Training
Training is always important, and regular and thorough training for threat drills such as intruders or fires will make it easier for your team to overcome disruptions with minimal help. If they know what to do in these instances, you can trust them to get on with it and avoid productivity problems. You might not even realise that there has been a disruption as your team is fully trained in what to do, including specific duties for each team member. This reduces the risk of severe problems and allows you to continue working at full capacity.
Maintained
With a variety of different disruptions possible, you must know how to approach each one and ensure that you do not encounter too many problems with your workplace productivity. This may require some drastic measures, but at least it will keep everyone operating at a steady pace to help your business maintain its growth and success.
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