There have been a lot of leaps and bounds for technology in the past few years. Some old school methods in the office have changed and greatly improved productivity for everybody. Still there are some old-school methods that have survived the jump to digital and that is slowly becoming an issue. One good example are managing visitors. Go to high end and newly constructed buildings and you will see how different it is from an office visit 20 years ago.
And that’s just it, things change and it makes for the safety of everybody easier to achieve. If you own an office or a business and you still stick with the old school stuff like logbooks then you may want to continue reading this article to learn more about visitor management system in the Philippines and how you can greatly benefit from that.
We first need to understand what a visitor management system is. Later we’ll also touch on the subject of who does decides on the visitor management system company.
The automated system that lets you go and keep things in order within the office particularly in the waiting area is considered a visitor management tool. There are a lot of different choices offices and businesses can use such digital logins and biometrics and proximity cards.
Aside from obviously keeping away visitors in areas they are not allowed to go in, a lot of new generation tech expands what you can do and what you can gain from visitors dropping by the office. For example, did you know that you can actually get data on the number of people visiting the office. You can collect that information and from there make an analysis. You can separate the analysis on the types of visitors you get, the gender, the age and even check out what’s the highest reason for dropping by. You can expand if further for making decisions too related to visiting the office.
Still there are more practical systems for visitors in your office. Receptionists can enrol both the guest and the person they are visiting into a software that will update both of them particularly in the status of their meeting. The software can also bridge the two in terms of communication. Guest can easily reach their intended person in the office using the direct line. In the same way, the person who would be visited would be notified if their guests have arrived.
Another beauty of the modern technology for visitor management is that it eliminates a bunch of old and obsolete measures. In the past, guests were required to put their names on a logbook. But with the modern versions, the digital logbook will store all the important details such as a photo of the visitor, the full address, the full name. These of course, are all information you can use should the need arise, like when there’s a criminal investigation going on and the investigators need to check the logs.