Frotcom keeps bringing MORE and MORE tools to increase your workforce's productivity

In my country, Portugal, people work a lot. We really do. In fact, on average we work more than in most other countries in the European Union. And this is a fact, as you can check in the statistics of the OECD – Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, for instance (stats.oecd.org). And yet we are not – sadly for me – among the richest countries in Europe. Why so? The answer is that we lack efficiency. In other words, we work a lot, but not as efficiently as we should. Not as efficiently as in the richest countries, anyway. Here’s an extreme example to make the concept clearer: “If you put two men working 24 hours a day, one digging a hole and the other filling it back, they will for sure have worked a lot; and yet they will have achieved nothing.“ Efficiency is about making the best possible use of resources. Efficient firms maximise outputs from given inputs, and so minimise their costs. The result is that they can produce more per employee. Efficient companies achieve a higher productivity. Frotcom keeps bringing more and more tools to increase your workforce’s productivity. It’s not just about knowing where your vehicles are, anymore. For instance, we launched the Eco-driving module in 2012. With it, you know how each vehicle is being driven, contributing to lower fuel and maintenance costs and increasing vehicle availability by reducing downtimes. In April 2013 the Workforce Management module was made available to companies wanting to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their mobile workforce. It is now time to launch the Remote download of tachograph files, reducing significantly the dull and unproductive task of frequently going to each and every truck, simply to collect the data files (mandatory in Europe). More productivity tools will become available in the months to come. Valério Marques, CEO - Frotcom International