• About Us
  • Write For Us
  • Advertising
  • Support
  • Contact Us
December 7, 2023 7:45 am CST
Heartland Newsfeed
  • Illinois
    • Local
      • Capital Area
      • East Central Illinois
      • West Central Illinois
    • Regional
      • Chicagoland
      • Metro-East
      • Northern Illinois
      • Quad Cities
      • Southern Illinois
    • Obits
    • Executive Watch
    • Legislative Watch
    • Road Conditions
      • Illinois
    • Weather Closings
      • Central Illinois
  • Missouri
    • Regional
      • Northeastern Missouri
      • East Central Missouri
      • St. Louis Metro
      • Southeast Missouri
    • Executive Watch
    • Legislative Watch
    • Weather Closings
      • Greater STL Metro (IL/MO)
    • Road Conditions
      • Missouri
  • Weather
  • National
  • World
  • Sports
  • Entertainment
  • OPINION
  • Radio
    • Affiliates
    • Network Schedule
    • Network Streams
    • Podcasts
  • Features
    • Business Directory
    • Classifieds
      • Current Ads
      • Job Board
        • Job Listings
        • J2CTalroo
        • Post a Job
        • Receive Alerts
        • ZipSearch
    • Community Calendar
    • Live Video
    • Newsfeeds
    • Puzzles & More
  • Store
  • Deals
  • Calendar
No Result
View All Result

No products in the cart.

Heartland Newsfeed
No Result
View All Result

Tips to reduce business downtime

Partner Contributor by Partner Contributor
January 30, 2023 - Updated on December 6, 2023
in Business & Lifestyle, Business News
Reading Time: 3 mins read
Donate
0

As a business, you only have so many hours in the day to utilize and there’s nothing worse than those hours being compromised. Whether that’s unexpected delays or situations within the workplace that take a knock on the productivity of your staff.

Businesses can certainly reduce downtime in order to improve productivity and give the workforce a much-needed boost in the right direction. Here’s how your business can do just that this year.

business productivity

Prioritize machine breakdowns in your business

When it comes to your industrial machines or office equipment, breakdowns can cause a lot of downtime in a business on a day-to-day basis. It’s important that you’re prioritizing these machine breakdowns and preventing them from having too much of an impact on productivity in the workplace. 

From replacing servo motors to getting an engineer in every so often to check for any potential maintenance problems, it’s important to make sure any machine breakdowns are bumped right up to the top of the list.

Be proactive instead of reactive as a business operator

As a business, it’s better to be proactive than reactive if you have a choice. There are some businesses that are naturally reactive in their environments and so they have no choice when it comes to managing downtime as and when it happens.

However, if you’re a business that can be more proactive, then it’s important to do so. Being proactive and anticipating situations happening that could impact productivity is handy to do.

Communicate effectively with staff

To help improve and reduce the amount of downtime within the business, try to make communication more effective. From one department to another, to the individual staff member’s own efforts to communicate, it’s all important to encourage.

Make sure all the relevant tools are in place to help with communication and to make it more productive in general. Sometimes, downtime occurs when a loss of communication happens and wires get crossed. It can cause delays which impacts your productivity as a business. 

Ensure everyone gets regular breaks

To help counteract procrastination, it’s important that everyone within the workplace is getting a proper work break. From those five minutes at the water cooler to taking a full break away from the desk to eat their lunch, these breaks are highly important for productivity levels.

Ensuring everyone gets a regular break is going to help all staff members to value and appreciate a break time. It can help reset the batteries and will positively impact productivity levels as a result.

Provide plenty of training opportunities

As a company, it’s important to try and offer as many training opportunities as possible. By giving your employees all of the training and knowledge they need, they’re less likely to become stuck with what they’re doing and will meet deadlines more successfully. The quality of work is likely to improve too, so it’s worth the investment.

Cutting down downtime in business can help businesses find more success as a result. Use these tips to help your business find more success this year.

Partner Contributor
Website | + posts
  • Partner Contributor
    #molongui-disabled-link
    The romantic side of Christmas for every heart
  • Partner Contributor
    #molongui-disabled-link
    Keeping regular home maintenance
  • Partner Contributor
    #molongui-disabled-link
    Fun online hobbies you can start doing
  • Partner Contributor
    #molongui-disabled-link
    Boost your brain power with cognitive games

Like this:

Like Loading...
Share198Tweet124Share5Send
  • Workforce training center opens in Litchfield

    1499 shares
    Share 600 Tweet 375
  • Cougars, Salukis settle for tie

    1303 shares
    Share 521 Tweet 326
  • Missouri law to crack down on porch pirates

    981 shares
    Share 392 Tweet 245
  • Missouri Dems critical of proposed tax cut

    960 shares
    Share 384 Tweet 240
  • No management pay raises in UPS deal

    918 shares
    Share 367 Tweet 230

OPERATING HOURS

Online all the time 
Office Hours: 8 AM to 8 PM

Sitemap | Published Press | Privacy Policy
Staff Email | Independent Media | Buy traffic for your website

LIVE WEBSITE VIEWERS

Some rights reserved 2017-2023 by Heartland Newsfeed, a subsidiary partnership by Heartland Internet Media Networks and Heartland Media Group of Central Illinois LLC. Content published by Heartland Newsfeed staff is covered by the BipCot NoGov license. This allows use and re-use by anyone except governments and government agents. License on record. JNews theme designed and developed by Jegtheme.

No Result
View All Result
  • Entertainment
    • Gaming
    • Sports
  • Tech
    • Apps
    • Gear
    • Mobile
    • Startup

Some rights reserved 2017-2023 by Heartland Newsfeed, a subsidiary partnership by Heartland Internet Media Networks and Heartland Media Group of Central Illinois LLC. Content published by Heartland Newsfeed staff is covered by the BipCot NoGov license. This allows use and re-use by anyone except governments and government agents. License on record. JNews theme designed and developed by Jegtheme.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist

WP Radio
WP Radio
OFFLINE LIVE
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.
-
00:00
00:00

Queue

Update Required Flash plugin
-
00:00
00:00
%d