{"id":34213,"date":"2019-01-23T21:23:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T13:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=34213"},"modified":"2019-01-23T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T13:24:00","slug":"how-to-make-your-business-more-flexible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/01\/23\/how-to-make-your-business-more-flexible\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make your business more flexible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Lily Asis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make sure that it is able to both meet and adapt to the demands of the day, you need to do all you can to ensure that your business is flexible. When you do, dealing the challenges that are thrown its way and the changes that are enforced upon it will become second nature to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To find out how to go about\nmaking your business operations and practices as flexible as they can be, check\nout the advice below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be flexible\nwhen it comes to your working environment<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have a\nnumber of options when it comes to\nincreasing the flexibility of your working environment. One is to embrace remote working<\/a>. This would involve you hiring a number of\nemployees, either on full-time contracts or in freelance positions and sending them their daily work\nelectronically to be performed at their own pace. This would see you have fewer troubles with staff relocation should you\ndecide to up sticks and move your business\u2019s headquarters at any point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embracing remote working does\ncome with a set of drawbacks, though, the biggest one being that communication\nis made harder. It\u2019s only natural, as when an employee is not sat within\nearshot of you, it\u2019s always going to be harder to converse with them. There is\ntech out that is fixing the issue of poor communication levels between\noffice-based staff and remote workers, though, the best of which being VoIP.\nThis kind of tech, which is offered by Monster VOIP<\/a>, allows staff members to retain a high standard of\ncontact with one another wherever they may be, even if four continents separate\nthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be more\nversatile with the hours of work that you assign<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You shouldn’t be too quick to\nadhere to the age-old business practice of assigning 9 to 5 working hours to\nyour employees, and should instead become far more versatile<\/a> with the hours of work that you set. By doing so,\nyou\u2019ll find that work efficiency is boosted thanks to the way in which your\nstaff wellness is tended to. More freedom will better staff morale, too, and\nthat will only ever better productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a roundabout way, being more\nversatile with your working hours will also enhance your customer service skills<\/a>. Today, customers want to be free to bring their\nqueries to businesses at a time that suits them. <\/em>By spreading the hours in which your employees\nwork, your phones will be manned over a greater period of time, meaning\ncustomers will stand a greater chance of getting into contact with you at a\ntime they deem appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flexibility is key in business.\nBy being too rigid, you won\u2019t leave your business much room to maneuver if or,\nmore likely, when, things go wrong. For this reason, you should seek to be more\nflexible when it comes to your working environment, and you should seek to be\nmore versatile with the hours of work that you assign. They might not feel like\nbig changes initially, but they\u2019ll impact your business for the better in a big\nway in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To find out how to go about making your business operations and practices as flexible as they can be, check out the advice below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":34214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26],"tags":[6588,1942,1145],"class_list":["post-34213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-opinions","tag-business","tag-tech","tag-tech-for-smbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}