Sometimes the working week just does not seem long enough to get all the required jobs done in order to hit the deadlines you’ve agreed. There are, however, some ways in which you can squeeze just little more valuable time out of your working week—not only for yourself, but for your employees, too. Here are some tips on how to get the most out of your working hours.

Have the right software for your business needs

In order to get the most out of your business working hours you will need to have the correct software to allow your key departments to work smoothly and productively. This means that they will have all the information that they require to do their job roles at their fingertips.

With most job roles this is very important and no more so than within your payroll department. This department requires access to information about all of your employees: their attendance, sickness and holidays, as well as pay, taxes, and so on. It is vital for this department to run smoothly for the morale and productivity of any business and it is therefore critical that the software you choose is up to the task in hand so that your payroll employees can get their jobs done without the stress of having an inappropriate or malfunctioning payroll program.

Schedule work in order to get tasks done

With this in mind, it is also important to be able to schedule your work loads properly, and there is scheduling software such as Gantt charts available that can be altered in real time, allowing your employees to adjust their own schedules and move jobs on when they are complete. This is fantastic if you are managing a large workforce or are having to keep a close eye on certain projects as they move around your site.

Having the correct kind of scheduling software and making it totally accessible to all of your workforce can be a godsend for any scheduling department when it comes to working out delivery times and speaking to customers about their projects currently being worked on. It can also help should there be any problems occurring—rather than the job just being put to one side and forgotten about, it will be plain to see that the work for that project has come to a standstill, so will get investigated.

Improve your working area

In order to get the most out of your working hours it is a very good idea to get any working area organized. This involves getting a grip on sorting the area, setting everything out in order, making sure that it is clean and shiny, making sure that all work areas are totally standardized, and lastly, that this is sustained throughout the working day as well as the working week. This method is also known as the 5S method and is has been proven to be very beneficial, whether you are working within a warehouse, office, or factory-floor environment.Getting rid of any distractions from the working areas, making sure that everything has its place, and it putting equipment away after every use helps your work area run smoothly and cuts down on the amount of aimless wandering around by members of staff.