'IT, HR, risk, workplace services and legal departments must collaborate more than ever'
As the COVID-19 curve flattens and organisations consider how to safely return employees to the workplace, employers need flexible solutions to balance employee preferences with health, regulatory and safety requirements and the demands of the business.
Moreover, companies need modern, agile workflows to meet employees where they are; whether they work in an office, a home office, a coffee shop, a lab, a warehouse, a call centre or a manufacturing plant.
To that end, ServiceNow will expand its Employee Workflow capabilities into enterprise workplace services and legal departments.
These capabilities will help customers enhance productivity and manage return to company workplace efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moreover, ServiceNow are expanding their Employee Workflow Content Packs to help organisations return employees to company workplaces.
Chirantan Desai, Chief Product Officer at ServiceNow, said the COVID-19 pandemic is today’s ‘moment that matters’ and it shows the need for companies to break down silos between departments focused on safety of their employees and customers.
“IT, HR, risk, workplace services and legal departments must collaborate more than ever before to safely bring employees back to company workplaces and to support new ways of work in the future. The Now Platform powers this collaboration with intelligent digital workflows.”
Moreover, ServiceNow have signed an agreement to acquire the 4Facility assets of App4Mation, a ServiceNow application and implementation services partner, that will strengthen our workplace services capabilities.
4Facility’s capabilities paired with ServiceNow’s workflow and mobile capabilities will serve as the foundation for the new Workplace Service Delivery product that will allow organisations to prioritise services based on rapidly changing business demands.
Companies will be able to plan and implement a phased return to company workplaces, starting with careful trials for critical workers and eventually opening workplaces up more broadly as conditions improve.
Employees will be able to reserve desks, offices and parking spots, leaving ample space for physical distancing.
Working closely with IT, HR, risk and Legal departments, workplace services leaders will be able to communicate easily with employees, automatically kickoff workplace maintenance and cleaning workflows, quickly respond to safety concerns and optimise real estate spending over time by monitoring usage – from a desktop or mobile device.
We expect to complete the acquisition by the end of Q2 2020. Workplace Service Delivery will be available for early adopters in Q3 2020.
Enable company workplace readiness with Employee Workflow products
ServiceNow introduced out-of-the-box Content Packs to support organisations as they navigate COVID-19 and bring employees safely back into the office.
Content Packs include templates and configurations for customers to get started with various lifecycle events and content campaigns, including:
Health Alert: Helps companies and governments implement critical workflows and communications for emergency response as they manage through COVID-19.
Return to Workplace: Will provide a playbook for organisations as they coordinate return to office activities and communications.
ServiceNow will continue to release more Content Packs that will help organisations manage their return to office effort.
This follows our March 16 release of four no-charge Emergency Response apps to support customers in their fight against the pandemic.
Scale legal operations to meet the needs of a digital business
As organisations embrace new, digital business models, legal teams must remain agile to support the changing needs of the organisation.
In response, ServiceNow is introducing a new Legal Service Delivery product to automate the capture, routing and delivery of legal requests.
Legal Service Delivery, which is tailored for enterprise legal operations, will create great employee experiences by enabling teams with self-service options and simple, mobile-ready entry forms for employees to make and track common legal requests like patent applications, business contracts help and conflict of interest disclosures.
Teams will be able to minimise manual work, intelligently prioritise requests and increase the speed of service delivery to the business. Legal Service Delivery will help work get done efficiently and provide visibility into the legal team’s workload.
As organisations navigate the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, Legal Service Delivery will also help legal teams collaborate easily with HR and Workplace Services to maximise both employee safety and regulatory compliance.
Legal Service Delivery is now available to early adopters and expected to be generally available in 2021.
ServiceNow’s Employee Workflow products simplify employee service delivery and offer a single place for employees to get answers to questions and make requests across departments, all from their preferred interface.
With ServiceNow Employee Workflow products, employees have flexible, agile, modern workflows to do their jobs when, where and how they need to. This is the future of work.
