Employee productivity is being stifled by everyday tasks, including reading and responding to email and searching for and gathering information, according to a new a new study commissioned by SAP which shows that companies may lose as much as $30,000 per employee each year due to inefficiency.
However, according to SAP, social collaboration tools like SAP Jam, a secure, cloud-based social software platform with more than 17.5 million subscribers, can help form faster, more informed decisions and improve the quality of the work that is critical to business success. Building connected networks of employees, partners and customers can drive business performance, and enable collaboration, which is especially important for the lines of business in an organization which often face unique sets of challenges and have to meet stringent KPIs.
“Executives at many of the world’s leading organizations are now leveraging social collaboration technology to drive growth, improve customer satisfaction and reduce cost,” said Sameer Patel, senior vice president and general manager, Products and GTM Enterprise Collaboration and Social Software, SAP.