Business automation: bane or boon?
Business owners who have been comfortable with traditional bookkeeping may find automation quite intimidating. Automation is a big word for a business owner with a fixed traditional mindset. For them, it means embracing the most advanced technology and completely saying goodbye to manual processes. Automation, to those who have not tried it is a replacement to humans. This is not true. Automation does not necessarily replace humans. In fact, they make day-to-day tasks easier.
With a traditional bookkeeping system, employees need to devote hours to get the job done because dealing with balance sheets, financial and other bookkeeping files should make no room for mistakes. Having a set of keen eyes ensure that mistakes are corrected before they can wreak havoc on your business.
Any business owner trying on a new strategy will surely feel as though they are struggling with keeping pace with technology. If you are going to look at the bigger picture, you will be able to realise that automation is going to be beneficial to your business. Here are the stand-out benefits of embracing business automation:
1. It reduces manual tasks.
You need to spend grueling hours on payroll management because the data you should enter must be accurate. Sometimes, it may take days to finish one task and this is time-consuming. Just imagine the ordeal of dealing with tasks such as managing accounting, managing inventory and even sending invoice to customers. If these tasks are automated, you will be able to take care of other tasks and assign them to employees so no time is wasted.
2. It ensures tasks are done in a timely manner.
Collaboration is easier with automation as you do not have to keep on following up with your employees on the task you have delegated. If you have workers from other countries, you can easily monitor the task’s progress. If the task you delegated is time-sensitive, you can simply put it on high priority status. Meetings can even be done using your smartphones or mobile device.
3. It increases employee satisfaction and retention.
Employees are important to every business. However, human errors caused employees to lose their drive and motivation. Automation sees to it that work is done to the highest quality by reducing errors. With the system’s tracking tools, transparency is also promoted. As more and more employees are satisfied with the way the systems work, employee retention will increase and employee satisfaction rate will improve.
