For companies relying on field service teams, there is a balancing act. How do you reduce costs and boost revenue while maintaining, or hopefully, improving customer service levels? The answer often comes down to one simple metric. How often does your field service team successfully complete a call to a client site the first time [...]
While all industries have their safety challenges, the HVAC sector can be exposed to particularly grave consequences if shortcuts are taken or maintenance and repairs aren’t carried out with all due diligence. Legionnaire’s disease is just one possible, potentially fatal, danger. But there are also a range of risks for the field service workers themselves [...]
There are many things that every business does and there are accepted ways of doing them. Creating invoices, receiving payments, managing inventory and handling payroll are all activities that companies do and are largely standardised. But there are also activities that businesses do that are unique to them. Software that supports those common activities is [...]
Workplace accidents and on-the-job injuries cost businesses and the economy significantly. Data compiled by Safe Work Australia shows that the number of serious claims for workplace accidents has declined from over 133,000 in 2000 to about 113,000 in 2019 which is the most recent data. While that reduction is good news, workplace accidents are still a [...]
For companies relying on field service teams, there is a balancing act. How do you reduce costs and boost revenue while maintaining, or hopefully, improving customer service levels? The answer often comes down to one simple metric. How often does your field service team successfully complete a call to a client site the first time [...]
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is incredibly powerful. It can support a business through almost every aspect of its operations from manufacturing and logistics through to forecasting and financing. In one fell swoop, a business can overcome the challenge of choosing different solutions to support every business function and have an integrated suite of applications [...]
Apps versus browsers: why an app-based approach is best for field service workers. ‘Is there an app for that?’ is probably one of the most asked questions of the 21st century. Whether it’s booking a holiday, buying or renting a car, or checking on a child’s school report, almost every activity we carry out can [...]
The last 18 months have been described as a big leveller, with organisations and individuals across the globe facing many of the same challenges. For the former, one of those challenges has been the question: how to engage and empower – and increase the productivity of your field staff when all they are out of [...]
A passion for making life as simple and intuitive as possible for the end customer led Margot Hoekstra to success as a user experience designer. Tell us how you ended up at Retriever and about your first role. Thirteen years ago I was looking for a job with a focus on design and project management, [...]
Unhappy and disengaged staff can be a business’ worst nightmare. Any organisation that has had to deal with the fallout of a disgruntled staff member, or former staff member, badmouthing it on social media or in anonymous online workplace forums knows this only too well. It leads to a negative atmosphere internally and can also [...]
