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Xerox Availability App aims to support workplace environment

June 30, 2020

Xerox is debuting a Team Availability App that aims to help retailers better manage employees given the increased remote work and at-home locations in the wake of COVID-19.

The app, according to a press release, will help better manage employee woking time and employee work location.

A recent global business survey commissioned by Xerox shows 58% of respondents plan to change their work from home policy within the next year.

"Managing a distributed workforce during a continued pandemic presents unique challenges no organization has experienced before," Joanne Collins Smee, executive vice president and chief commercial, SMB and channels officer, Xerox, said in the relesae. "Organizations need to know who is available and where so they can make better decisions when allocating resources and work. This tool provides real-time knowledge to managers with distributed employee populations."

The U.K.'s Imperial NHS Trust is piloting the app to access the status of essential workers across the Trust and its newly assigned locations at the height of the pandemic.

"It's important for a healthcare provider to know which caregivers are available when to support patients, and that's even more critical in a pandemic," Linda Watts, joint clinical systems program manager, Imperial NHS Trust & Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, head of health records, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, said in the release. "The Xerox Team Availability App was deployed at lightning speed, and we got updates from staff on their availability in real-time. As a result, we could always make sure our patients were covered."