Smooth return from home office

ServiceNow Releases “Safe Workplace” Kit Smooth return from home office

If the sudden evacuation of many employees from their home offices due to the corona pandemic is a major challenge for the company, it is even more so when they return to traditional workplaces.

The return of employees requires careful planning, implementation and flexibility of the organization. This requires that from IT and human resources to workplace services and legal departments, the entire company’s functional departments must work together seamlessly to create a safe and efficient environment for all employees, whether they return to the company or continue to work at home. Complex cross-functional workflows are essential to ensure that all employees can get the services needed to complete their work seamlessly and efficiently no matter where they are.

With ServiceNow’s “Safe Workplace” suite, companies should be able to take the necessary measures when employees return to the workplace. The suite is based on the customer service plan launched in March this year and extends ServiceNow’s employee workflow portfolio. It is based on the Now platform and includes four new applications and a dashboard. It aims to provide the company with an overview of employees and their workplaces in preparation for their return home.

Preparation, health and protection

Part of this is the so-called “employee application”, which is used for personal support in the preparation of human resources, IT, legal and workplace services. The “Employee Readiness Survey” application can be used to determine the degree of willingness to return to work. To this end, the answers to many questions related to the employees’ personal wishes and interests to return to work are recorded. Based on these answers, the employer can determine the necessary and appropriate steps to ensure a smooth and safe return to work.

The “Employee Health Screening” application for employee health screening enables companies to inspect employees before they enter the workplace to ensure compliance with entry regulations such as temperature control and personal protective equipment (PPE). After the inspection, the employer can decide whether to enter the workplace. The app also provides a reporting dashboard to show trends in each location and record work returns.

Die ServiceNow Safe Workplace Apps

With the help of these two new “workplace apps”, companies can arrange for their employees to return to work. The “Workplace Safety Management” application enables facility and workplace service managers to quickly set up a clean, hygienic, and social work space. Among other things, this includes the assignment of shifts so that the work area can be occupied for a certain period of time, and a cleaning plan can be configured at the end of each shift. Ready-to-use reports and dashboards provide a real-time overview of workspace reservations for all floors, buildings and locations. Operations managers can also view the status of all cleaning tasks in real time, including a complete audit trail history.

The “Workplace Personal Protective Equipment Inventory Management” application can help companies manage and monitor the demand for personal protective equipment to ensure the personal safety of employees. The app’s dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of each facility list and a summary view of the entire workplace. In addition, historical data on how the list of protective equipment changes over time is provided. The inventory level can be updated every day to achieve accurate inventory management.

Das “Safe Workplace” Dashboard

Using the Now platform, ServiceNow and its Safe Workplace dashboard aggregate all the data collected by these applications into one view. The dashboard is available for free, it provides a visualization of the data collected by these applications, and overlays a map that uses aggregated public data on infection rates. This allows companies to view the geographic development of infections and scan specific locations. The company location is marked with information, and then it can be determined whether the location remains open or can be reopened.

The Safe Workplace application suite can now be found at servicenow.com/safeworkplace.

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