The coronavirus has changed the way businesses operate. Already the number of Americans working from home has quadrupled to 50% according to a recent survey from The National Bureau of Economic Research. Twitter and Square have already offered employees the option to work from home permanently and Facebook is considering doing the same. In fact,…
Do you still use a physical, onsite mailroom? Are you struggling to manage your newly decentralized team’s incoming and outgoing communications because of it? Well, what if you could centralize your mailroom in a way that makes critical business communications easily accessible to all members of your team—even those working remotely? Good news: you can!…
One of the things people miss most since the start of the COVID-19 shutdown is face-to-face interaction. Employees miss greeting their colleagues when they walk into the office in the morning. They miss bumping into one another in the break room. Many even miss weekly meetings that they used to dread attending. There’s nothing like…
Whether you’re in a state that is in a phase of reopening or re-closing, it’s no secret that a second wave of COVID-19 is threatening, and businesses need to prepare. That means prioritizing your employees’ safety and ability to work from home. A key place to start is at the core of all business operations:…
In the wake of the COVID-19 shutdown, businesses that found themselves jumping into a remote workforce model practically overnight soon discovered a key shortcoming in their digital capabilities: the mailroom. Even the smoothest transition to a decentralized, internet-connected workforce has come up against this intractable silo of paper and a physical address. Fortunately, there is…
Organizations large, medium, and small all have one thing in common—the need to process incoming mail and paperwork quickly and accurately. Mailrooms operate as a cost center in every business, yet they may be responsible for slowing down the intake and distribution of incoming mail. And when the volume of documents increases, so does the…
In an era of transformational possibilities for automating document management, the act of opening an envelope delivered to a centralized mailroom can seem like an astonishingly retrograde exercise. But it’s reality for many businesses, especially those dependent upon sensitive physical records: the streamlining and integration of data and documents that arrive by mail, email, email…
The corporate mailroom is a common roadblock for important business processes. It’s difficult to stay on top of the mail, but critical to do so, because falling behind leads to outstanding invoices, unfulfilled obligations, and expired opportunities. With all of the labor involved—from receiving, opening, and distributing paper mail, to maintaining an empty email inbox,…
Did you know that to experience the benefits of accounts payable (AP) automation, you don’t need to dive into a fully-featured solution all at once? Studies show that even automating small pieces of the AP process at a time could still have a significant positive impact on the efficiency of your operations. Ideally, your approach…
Congratulations! You’ve made the smart decision to eliminate invoices and streamline the receipt of your mail and email with a digital mailroom. As soon as it’s all in place, you’ll quickly start to enjoy increased efficiency and the ability to reallocate space and staff hours that were previously being wasted on managing incoming paper and…