But the sad truth is that most office employees aren’t engaged at work. In fact, a recent study showed that a shocking 70% of employees are either not engaged or disengaged at work.2
Of course there is no quick fix for employee engagement, but you might be surprised to hear that going paperless could have a significant impact on your employee engagement.
Think about it… During their free time, many employees are used to managing their lives digitally. They have instant access to any information they need, from their child’s daycare hours to information about their finances.
It’s easy to see why digitally engaged employees would be frustrated when they transition from the digital world of their personal lives to the paper world when they come to work. It can be frustrating for employees to use paper files and processes when they know from their personal lives that there’s an easier way to manage data.
Just think about the time and energy your employees spend doing these tasks:
Today, most forms can be easily filled out on a computer, but then members must print them out and sign them on paper. These documents then need to be re-scanned and emailed, faxed or sent by snail mail back to the credit union that sent them. And your employees have to take up the slack by confirming signatures, re-keying information and scanning or filing the finished documents.
“We lost loans that could have been easily closed if we had SIGNiX’s digital signature service sooner,” says Alicia Alvarez of Alamo Federal Credit Union, remembering their paper process before using e-signatures. “We tried faxing paperwork over and having them fax signed documents back to us, but the process was still exasperating.”
Credit unions that adopt e-signatures quickly see an increase in employee engagement. E-signature solutions like SIGNiX take on all of the tasks typically performed by a group of employees. With this software, employees can easily perform all of these tasks in minutes instead of days or weeks:
By adopting e-signatures, you can give your employees the freedom to spend more time focusing on critical aspects of their work instead of just moving paper. This doesn’t just mean more employee engagement, but it can also mean more business for your credit union.
“E-signatures are an integral component of a much bigger strategy that we will continue to expand on in the future,” says SIGNiX customer John Hays of Access Community Credit Union. “If we spend less time closing loans, then we should have more time to go out and get new borrowers.”
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