It's Time To Replace Single-Use Apps

It's Time To Replace Single-Use Apps and Get your team on the same page

Is your ‘Office’ a mess?

Are your ‘Teams’ not working collaboratively?

Are your comms tools a little ‘Slack’?

Are you sick of having to ‘Zoom’ everywhere?

Sounds like a dog’s breakfast. Prefer a PIQNIC?

We like to poke a little bit of fun here at PIQNIC (even at ourselves) but what’s not so amusing is seeing employees struggle - even pre-COVID - because businesses decide to hand out single purpose apps like lollipops.

The results are predictably chaotic with information often spread all over the place as people in the same team use different apps and tools to send, receive, edit and save documents.

No one is on the same page, hence the need for all those endless meetings, emails and messages.

With research showing that employees average nine hours per week locating reliable documents and information it is clear that, far from making life easier, these apps and tools are sowing confusion - doing little more than driving a lot activity for very little action.

Likewise managers are telling us that none of these apps are solving real problems.

In fact they are making it worse not only by dividing the work and information across multiple platforms but by making it next to impossible to know with any confidence where their teams are with their work or if they need help.

To counter this disorder some are having to spend up to six hours a day on Zoom sessions.

Once again, a lot of activity for very little action.

So what’s to be done?

Be bold.

As we move into a post-COVID environment most employees will be working remotely at least some of the time so it behoves businesses to think critically in order to reduce confusion, increase confidence and enable their teams to shift activity into action.

Imagine providing your people with a single platform, one accessible from anywhere, that replaces all those single purpose apps and ensures:

• Teams are all on the same page.
• Managers have full visibility of work.
• The right information is always available to the right people when they need it.
• People are not constantly distracted by emails, messages, progress updates and meetings.
• Employee engagement and satisfaction increases.
• Customers see and feel the improvements.
• Productivity soars.

If this sounds too good to be true it’s not.

Read more about the never-ending hunt for information, how messaging apps are driving distraction in the workplace, see our guide to business success in the post-COVID age, or learn ABOUT PIQNIC and how we solve these issues. 

If you’re a manger trying to get to grips with this new way of working sign up for our remote working checklist:

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