Tuesday, 12 April 2016

How a GPS Tracking Device can make calculating your field agent’s pay check easier?

If you’ve been managing a team of marketing agents or field agents, then you will definitely know that the few days before pay day can become really hectic and frustrating. It is really simply to calculate the monthly pay of employees working in the office. You simply have to calculate the number of days they took leave, subtract the loss of pay and/or advance they took and write the cheque. If it’s time for a bonus or an incentive, then the team manager will give you a clear account of the amount to be added. Calculating the pay for a regular employee is child’s play when compared to doing it for a sales executive or a technical field agent. The pay and the bonus is usually performance based. It means that you will be able to calculate the salary only if you know the actual work hours of the employee. How is it possible to do that when the employee is always on road and you don’t know how many hours of work they have put in? It is to solve this problem that many marketing-based companies in India use GPS tracking devices.

You can download the field staff tracking application on to a smartphone that can be carried by the field agent when he goes to meet the client or customer. The application can be customized according to your company’s needs and requirements. The field agent can report to work via the application. The job details can also be updated on the app so that the employee will know his work for the day. The application is GPS-based, which means the location and direction of movement can be tracked at any point of time. You can even configure the application to give you real-time updates of the employee movement.


This field staff tracking device will generate reports of the movement of the employee. Based on the reports, you will be able to check the time the agent spent at the client’s location, the time taken to travel and other details. Based on the data obtained from the reports, you will be able to judge the employee’s productivity and performance. As you have concrete reports generated by the mobile app, you don’t have to worry about tailored reports or misinformation from your employees. The best part of using this GPS trackerdevice India is that you will be able to justify rewarding the good performers and warning the poor performers.

Monday, 21 March 2016

Is your Field Agent Slacking at Work? Use the Employee Location Tracking App to Get Him On Track!

One of the biggest problems faced by managers is to track the work of their out-of-office team. It is easy to check if an employee is working properly when he/she is in an office environment. However, this is not possible when the employee is working out in the field or is constantly on the travel meeting customers. In such cases what can you do if you feel that some employees are slacking in their work? You can make use of the employee location tracking app.

While working out of office, it becomes easy to ignore deadlines or work at a slower pace as there is no one to constantly keep a tab on their work. Another reason for slacking could be lack of motivation. Sales agents and customer relationship executives will be on road almost every day of the month. This can get tiring and frustrating, especially if they have to deal with complaints all day long. Even if you constantly keep a tab on your field agents, there are plenty of chances that they will try to dodge your monitoring and take an easy way out of the tasks that have been assigned to them. The employees may also tell you that it took a long time to travel to the customer’s place and so they were not able to complete the task on time. Or they may have other excuses like getting stuck in traffic or having no vehicle to travel. Sometimes, your service and maintenance executives may not even call the customer’s house and report that there was no one at home. All these little things will create a bad impression about your company. Plus, you will be paying an employee and spending on travel, food, and accommodation without getting any productive work from him. This problem can be solved if you use the GPS device to track the employee location.

The employee location tracking app can be easily installed in a smartphone that your field agent can carry with him. Your marketing executive can report for work via the application. The manager can assign tasks to the employee using the application. When the agent gets the allotted task, he can complete the task and then immediately report the task completion. This way, the manager will be able to track employee location and work done. Plus, the employee need not have to travel to the head office every morning and evening for attendance. It will save a lot of time and effort that can be used to improve his productivity. When you use the mobile location tracking app, the employee will feel that you’re constantly watching their work. So, he will not slack and complete his work on time.


Thursday, 25 February 2016

Manage Remote Teams with Employee Location Tracking

Does your enterprise have remote teams that work on site far away from the head office? At such times, it will be very difficult for the management to keep track of the attendance and safety of the field agents. If the work site is very remote with no means of transport or communication, the task becomes even more difficult. So, what is the solution to this problem? GPB-based employee location tracking devices can be used to keep track of your field agent’s movements and safety.

There are two ways using which you can track employee location. One is to install the tracking application in a smartphone that they can use. The other method is to install tracking device in the vehicle used by the employee. Both these methods are reliable and will give you real time updates of the employee’s location.

You can install the GPS tracking application in a smartphone and ask your field agent to use it. The application allows the employee to report on or off duty. They can also update work status, details of work done, and other information in the application. At the same time, the manager at the office can also update work details and relevant information for the employee to check. This way there will be a seamless workflow and communication even if both the parties are not at the same physical location.

The employee location tracking app will also generate and maintain all types of reports related to attendance, work status, and off time. All these reports will be useful for the management to evaluate the productivity and performance of the employee. The field agent too will have reliable records to prove that he has completed all the work in the given time. The use of GPS device to track employee location will help create a transparency in all work dealings. As no one will be able to make any changes to the records, the management and the employee can be assured that there will not be any data smudging.

Employee location tracking applications can be very useful in ensuring the safety of your remote teams. Even if the on-site employees are not able to contact the headquarters, the details of their location can be accurately tracked using the device. So, if there is any accident or emergency, the rescue team can be sent to the accurate location. This will save time, effort, and lives too.