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When snow hits UK in March - how to recover lost productivity?

London, UKLearning NewsCommelius Solutions

Staff unable to travel to work due to difficult weather conditions are encouraged to train remotely and make up for lost productivity with their improved skills.

Lost productivity during severe weather conditions cost companies up to £1.2 million a day. In recent years 1 in 5 employees were unable to travel to work when snow trapped most of the country at home. Learning and development experts advise businesses to encourage their staff to train remotely from home to compensate for the time out of the office.

Make the most out of the bad weather – train from home if you can’t get to work

With current heavy snow fall warnings from Met Office business are again facing difficulties as their staff have problems reaching their workplaces. Jon Shepstone, virtual training specialist from Redtary Solutions, suggests that live online training could be one of the solutions that could help reduce the problems caused by unexpected bad weather conditions, such as this March snow.

Modern training methods such as live online learning don’t involve travel; all that is required from a learner is a computer and internet connection. This allows people to easily train from home.

Quick way to recovering lost productivity

Mr Shepstone claims that lost productivity could be quickly recovered with newly gained or improved skills thanks to the training people often tend to put away while at work. He says: “There was a lot of talk recently about the problem of skills shortages in the UK. When bad weather hits the country and causes travel issues for staff, improving skills for work with remote training might be a good solution to a bad situation.”

More about live online learning and how it can help businesses is available www.redtray.co.uk/cloudrooms/.

About CloudRooms

CloudRooms™ is the new live online learning classroom from Redtray Solutions. It promotes a new approach to learning which eliminates information overload. By breaking down long classroom courses into short one hour training sessions, which are run online by live instructors, it supports retention of newly gained knowledge. It creates an interactive training environment for learners and engages them in practical exercises with a 'try it yourself' approach. This means students can leave a session and apply their new skills straight

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