Staff Productivity

Investing in Your People

One of the biggest wins for you as a business owner is improving staff productivity. Empowering your people with user-friendly tools which are there to enhance their efforts, but aren’t perceived as early signs of self-imposed extinction, can be a tricky balance amid the ongoing AI debate. However, balance can be found between progress, efficiency and work culture; it just takes some thought and care.

Staff Productivity

Harness Your Biggest Asset

In the modern IT world, services are becoming more reliable. Solutions are already cloud native or well on the way, making the shift from a reactive relationship with tech to a proactive and future-aware one increasingly relevant.

Fire-fighting is cool and all, and it’s what IT Support Services often get associated with, but pre-emptive fire safety measures based on the kind of fires that have already popped up, and being aware of potentially flammable conditions to avoid in the future is where it’s at.

This truly proactive approach to IT directly affects staff productivity, reducing downtime and the frustration that can cause, along with the money it can save the business.

“Prevention is better than cure” …another one of those cliches that are cliches for good reason.

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Planning Makes Perfect

How This Helps Your Business

Apart from the obvious “happy teams make happy businesses” stuff, having a clear understanding of where your IT currently is, its limitations and possibilities for future improvement, creates clarity of vision.

When this vision is communicated in a coherent 3 Year IT Plan, that has been co-created by business owners, IT professionals, and invested staff, it helps to foster a collective purpose and takes the guess work out of budgeting for growth.

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Team Culture

Having the tools to capture and share ideas removes silos of knowledge and helps grease up the wheels of collaboration. It also helps you surface patterns in behaviour and outcomes to learn from, which then gives you an opportunity to think ahead based on what’s come before.

This proactive approach is infectious, and so we look to mirror that in the way we look after the tech you use every day. That’s why we approach IT support by anticipating, planning, learning and feeding that learning back to you.

Want to explore potential savings and benefits further? Have a play with the Productivity Assessment widget below and see what it throws up for you!

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Business Case Builder: Productivity Assessment

The calculator below turns the issues slowing your team down into a real number . Enter your headcount using the slider, tick the problems that sound familiar, and see what they’re likely costing you in lost hours and money, both now and with proactive IT support in place. The estimates blend UK SME productivity data with broader industry benchmarks, since good UK-specific figures on “time lost to flaky IT” are surprisingly hard to pin down. Use it on its own for a quick gut-check, or pull the results into a wider business case (ToMaS can talk you through each step and keep a note of what you find either way)

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How many people are in your team?

This helps us calculate the real cost of the issues you choose below.

Team size

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Which of these issues ring true for your business?

Select everything that applies. The more honest you are, the more accurate the numbers.

Select one or more issues above to see the impact on your business — and what changes with the right IT support in place.