How to Set Up an Employee Portal for Your Company

Did you know US employees spend 19% of their workweek looking for information? 

If your employees are spending a lot of time searching for information, you might be able to address the issue by creating a ‘portal.’ That’s because a portal can act as a centralized location for important data.

Read on, and you’ll learn how to create an employee portal in your business. With the help of these tips, you should be able to create a portal that’ll massively improve productivity in your firm. 

Let’s begin!

What Kind of Portal Should You Create? 

When creating a portal in your company, you’ll find there are many different things you can focus on. 

For example, you can create a portal that helps employees submit and find certain kinds of documentation. Or, you can create a portal that helps employees submit queries to other members of staff. 

Either way, there are lots of different use cases on offer, and you need to decide which option is best for you.

If you don’t figure this out ahead of time, you might build something that’s too complicated. On top of that, the portal you build might not actually address the core issues in your firm. 

If you don’t know where to begin, you should just ask employees what kind of portal would help them out the most.

If you ask everyone this question, you’ll probably come across a recurring answer. This ‘answer’ is most likely the thing you’ll want to focus on when creating your portal. 

Creating the Portal

If you want to develop a portal, you’ll probably need to approach a software development firm. 

However, before you approach a development firm, you should find examples of portals that represent what you’d like to create. 

For instance, if you want to create a relatively simple portal, you can show the development firm this portal from ERC Today.

Alternatively, if you want to create something a little more complicated, you might want to show them the one that’s used by Dominos Pizza. 

If you can present the development firm with relevant examples, it’ll be easier for them to figure out what you want. 

Training Staff

Once you’ve created your portal, you need to make sure staff members know how to actually use it. 

The easiest way to go about this is by hosting an employee training day that goes over how the portal works.

During the event, you should also distribute an employee software manual that describes the portal and what it is capable of. 

On top of that, you also need to remember to give people an ’employee portal login.’

When you provide this information, you should let employees know how they can recover their login details, if they forget them. 

Will You Create an Employee Portal? 

You should now understand some of the basics when it comes to creating an employee portal. 

As time goes on, you might want to seek feedback from your employees in regards to how well the portal is performing.

In doing so, you’ll be able to identify the issues people are having with the portal. You can then send this information to your developers, and they can subsequently fix things. 

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