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Industry Research : 61% of Leading Global Retailers Trust Their Frontline Workers with Mobile Technology While at Work

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WorkForce Software published the results of global retail workforce management study with Retail Systems Research (RSR), which revealed that giving frontline deskless workers access to modern workforce management technology leveraging mobile devices frees up their managers’ time and allows employees to have real-time access to smart business communications, KPIs, sales trends, and goals so they can have an immediate impact to the daily business – exactly where their work is happening – on the sales floor servicing customers.

"Mobile" is the underlying theme for technology enablers when it comes to the deskless retail workforce. With the unfortunate exception of average and under-performers’ failure to roll out "mobile devices to free up managers’ time," empowering employees with the same mobile technology that consumers use is clearly the way forward. While 48% percent of "Winners" rate that capability "high value," 61% report that the technology is installed and delivering value. While such a finding might be a notable anomaly, the data-inside-the-data shows that it is once again the largest retailers that are driving adoption (70% compared to 41% overall). The retail industry’s technology enablers are leading the pack on pinpointing the benefits of mobile technologies for their deskless workforces around the world and improving the overall employee experience.

Mobile automated time and attendance capability is the number one use of mobile technology for the deskless workforce of top retailers, with 76% of retail winners placing a "high value" on it. It is imperative in a highly disruptive COVID world that employees have the flexibility and accessibility needed to better manage and organize their personal work schedules while still meeting the needs of the business. This technology greatly improves their employee experience and can impact their retention.



Over-performers place a higher value on technology that is aimed at employee empowerment. 90% of the largest retailers assign "high value" to employee communication portals (compared to 54% overall), and 80% assign "high value" to real time employee performance dashboards (compared to 51% overall). Employee communication portals, mobile peer-to-peer communications, mobile self-scheduling, and self-paced and gamification of training accessed through mobile devices are all intended to help employees help themselves through modern workforce management technology.

The pervasiveness of mobile technologies creates the opportunity for retailers to use smart team communications to encourage teamwork and to provide just-in-time information to global, or local, staff members. Retail "Winners" see the opportunity with 67% of retail "Winners" placing a high value on peer-peer messaging and collaboration, 61% touting mobile for employee "micro" trainings happening in-the-moment they are needed on the salesfloor, and 61% of Retail "Winners" seeing the value in mobile "in context" smart communications being embedded into workflows and communicated through their mobile devices directly to frontline retail workers.

The global pandemic further illustrated that, moving forward, retailers must rapidly adjust to the ‘never normal’ world of commerce, and they must consistently enable faster responses for their deskless workforces – these are the people on the salesfloor meeting and servicing the customer. This can have an immediate impact to their business; 38% of top retailers surveyed indicated that consumers have more access to product information than their associates can provide in stores. Allowing smart mobile WFM capabilities for the frontline workforce can combat this.

"Many senior executives tout that ‘our most valuable assets are our employees,’ and the time is now to back that up by investing in modern workforce management mobile technologies for frontline retail workers," said Brian Kilcourse, Managing Partner, RSR. "Many global retailers are blazing a trail by empowering their frontline deskless workers with powerful WFM technologies. Their employees are reporting a better work experience, feeling more engaged and heard at work, and through mobile technology, they can have the time and autonomy to meet their retail customers on the salesfloor and thoughtfully interact with them, creating meaningful sales connections for their brand."

With retail habits changing, a process accelerated by the impacts of the pandemic, the current "Winners" in retail are prepared to overachieve once more. The research showed that retail "Winners" have a more favorable view of employee management tools, such as employee performance dashboards, task management, KPIs and alerts, and onboarding systems. Retailers with WFM technology can lean into the unprecedented changes in the retail industry, and quickly equip their workforce to meet fluctuating customer demands. Those that do not empower their deskless workforce with critical and necessary mobile technology and smart communications, risk being left behind with below-target sales figures and losses incurred from a lackluster customer experience.

"Retail is often our canary in the coal mine, forcing them to be early adopters of leading technologies with a do-or-die business mantra. Other industry leaders should look to these retail ‘Winners’ that are building organizations of the future – those that are empowering their employees, retaining their staff, and building a loyal customer base – all orchestrated by a powerful modern workforce management solution," said Sandra Moran, Chief Marketing Officer of WorkForce Software. "Learn from the insights of retail ‘Winners’ in this research report, invest in your frontline deskless workforce, who are the most important asset in your business. This research demonstrates there are clear performance variations between winners who leverage WFM technologies and improve their employees’ experience, and those that have not."

#contactcenterworld, @WorkForceSW

Posted by Veronica Silva Cusi, news correspondent
Source: WorkForce Software


About WorkForce Software:
Company LogoWorkForce Software is a global provider of cloud-based workforce management solutions. The company’s WorkForce Suite adapts to each organization’s needs, delivering a breakthrough employee experience – no matter how unique your pay rules, labor regulations, schedules, and employee self-service needs are. Enterprise grade and future-ready, WorkForce Software removes the noise from a managers’ busy day, protects your organization from compliance risks, provides leadership with strategic business insights, and delivers real employee engagement at the time and place work happens.
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