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Enhance Collaboration
An estimated 61% of time spent per employee is coordinating collaboration (source: McKinsey Global Institute, The Social Economy, July 2012.) Teams are running in circles. This means that actual work is getting done only 39% of the time. A majority of the time is spent duplicating work and searching for information across various systems. Does that sound like an effective use of time? ESNs can improve team alignment by allowing employees to collaborate across offices and continents. Some ESNs, like Yammer, have a built-in translator that will allow you to translate posts automatically so international teams can collaborate in a faster, more effective manner without requiring separate translation services. These networks also allow you to structure communications into groups, allowing employees to communicate on projects and events with simple posts rather than lengthy emails with many copies. Theres an estimated 25% boost in productivity in social organizations that use ESNs alone.
piece of the organization, thus making them feel disconnected within the organization no matter the size. Enterprise social networks can change the statistics by increasing employee engagement. Expertise can be identified much quicker in a social network when co-workers need assistance. These networks can accelerate the onboarding, learning and development for new individuals in an organized group, rather than showing an employee different locations for saved files, policies, templates, forwarded emails, etc. And the most important piece of increasing engagement is sharing best practicesallowing each other to share best practices so employees across an organization know what works and what doesnt. Helping others is what creates a deeper connection with each other and, inadvertently, the organization.