Keeping employees happy and engaged is one of the most effective ways to retain skilled and experienced team members.
While offering competitive salaries and progression opportunities can go a long way, if employees are not satisfied with their day-to-day work, engagement levels will start to drop off. This will inevitably lead to productivity dips, so improving employee engagement should be a clear priority for businesses.
As well as retaining key employees and driving productivity, good employee engagement levels reduce absenteeism. The cost of replacing employees can be reduced, so there are many benefits to investing efforts into improving the employee experience.
The key to achieving improvements is to identify the main reasons why employees are disengaged and implement solutions. These are some of the most common reasons for employee disengagement:
There is one single solution that can help to solve the top four disengagement reasons listed above – a digital asset management (DAM) system. A DAM provides a central repository for asset storage but has many other benefits. In addition to improving compliance and providing a consistent file organisation system, it can improve the employee experience in the following ways:
When assets are stored in sporadic locations without any intuitive structure, valuable time is wasted searching for relevant documents, images and videos. A DAM system can provide auto-tagging of assets and has an advanced search functionality.
This makes it easy for employees to find the assets they need. Integration with other systems, such as design software and email automation tools, also provides seamless transition across systems. Access levels can be designated so that all employees can access the assets they need to do their job.
Cross-team working and working with external partners also becomes easier with DAM. Access can be provided to employees across the business, with access levels assigned according to their roles.
You can also set up access for external partners, so that your internal teams can easily collaborate on projects with design agencies, for example. DAM systems can also be integrated with chat functions, allowing instant feedback between users without the need to send emails back and forth.
Managing assets manually involves many repetitive tasks, such as locating the file locations for storage, naming and adding file details to assets. DAM’s AI-generated auto-tagging scans images and text to assign the most appropriate file location and creates file metadata tags such as keywords and categories.
Approval tasks can also be automatically assigned, so that content creators do not need to send files to approvers or chase for updates. The automation of mundane tasks involved in asset storage and management not only removes mundane work, it helps to reduce workloads.
DAM can also support remote working models, as employees can access the system via the cloud. Offering remote working options for employees provides greater flexibility and can allow them to achieve a better work-life balance, while still having the tools they need and secure systems.
All of these benefits directly influence the employee experience, which is why many businesses are turning to DAM to provide a user-friendly system that removes many of the frustrations of day-to-day tasks.
If you are looking for ways to improve the employee experience, we can provide you with a demo to explain all the benefits in more detail. We’ll show you how DAM will remove some of the main causes of employee disengagement, with the right system and tools in place.
