5 Reasons RPA Is Key to Remote and Hybrid Working Success for Insurance Companies

Given the industry’s overall reluctance to embrace digital transformation, it’s ironic that the insurance industry is one that’s best suited for remote work success. As digital solutions have been adopted, insurance executives have found they can hire top talent regardless of geography and build virtual agile teams that can provide advice, make sales, and handle claims remotely.

RPA software bots perform mundane digital tasks with tools that emulate the way humans interact with software. As an example, let’s look at the tedious task of logging into an application and moving files and folders or doing endless copy/paste in a document.

With RPA implementation, if you watched what’s happening on a monitor, you would think a human was conducting the session. The automation of tedious manual tasks as well as rule-based business processes improves the processes involved but also elevates the work experience of humans.

RPA allows employees to easily communicate, collaborate, and support each other, no matter where they are. This means your staff can dedicate their time and talents to higher-value projects. On a practical, everyday level, this is how RPA can support both your business and your remote workers.

RPA bots can perform rule-based tasks like extracting information and moving files and folders all with 100% accuracy. This means automating things such as:

• Data entry
• Gathering policyholder data from different sources
• Reading and scanning data
• Insurance period verification
• Error flagging in data
• Policy management

These bots also can be programmed to generate follow-up alerts, provide approvals, and generate a 360-degree view of available customer data.

When working from home, colleagues can’t just walk over to a desk to see if a coworker is available. Leaders should recognize how this impacts efficiency. Software robots can use information from calendar activity to update availability status via whatever internal message app is used. This improves the collaborative workflow – bots can use the information in a calendar to find conflicting times and locations and attempt to reschedule.

Remote employees need flexible, easily accessible tools to work effectively and be productive. However, these systems were designed for a distinct standard of work. RPA bridges the gap between your legacy systems and the tools and workflows needed to support flexible remote work.

Insurance company CIOs and CTOs need cost-effective solutions to effectively manage remote workers in the long run while preserving security. Automation eases the burden of daily technical support and allows IT professionals to manage more complex tasks.

The sudden shift to remote work has added a lot of pressure to operations teams, including the IT teams that maintain security while helping remote workers adapt to new technology. The remote workforce will continue to tax principal IT resources unless the right automation support framework is put in place for the long term.

Communication silos impair the collaboration, productivity, effectiveness, and compliance of your team. In fact, a recent survey found that 86% of employees and executives blame a lack of effective communication and/or collaboration for workplace failures.

You can’t collaborate if you can’t effectively communicate. Using RPA to automate your front and back office allows the free flow of data across your organization and boosts collaboration. Unified access to data and consistent processes makes an efficient workflow, which in turn fosters collaboration. Everyone has access to and can share the same data.

But enabling and supporting your remote workforce isn’t just about automation. Whether it’s remote work or hybrid work, you’ll have to adjust some management processes and RPA can help.

Insurance industry leaders aren’t the only ones struggling to come to grips with remote and hybrid work. In addition to new technology, there’s a new management process. To keep productivity high and stress at a minimum, equip your teams for productivity and your business for prosperity with the following processes:

• Schedule weekly team meetings: Give your remote employees facetime with company leaders and with each other. Setting up company-wide meetings can be daunting, but RPA bots can update meeting schedules based on employee calendars, send notes after a meeting, and schedule other events without conflicts.
• Avoid setting-specific working hours: Within reason, and as long as it doesn’t impact customer service, let employees work whatever hours are most productive for them.

Remote and hybrid working models are here to stay, and that’s a good thing for the insurance industry: 72% of employers say staff working remotely were more productive than when they were in the office. By implementing RPA, you can equip both your employees and your business for lasting success.

Remote and hybrid work may be new territory for your insurance company, but there’s no need to fear with RD Global in your corner! We are RPA experts and have helped many organizations optimize their digital experiences both internally and customer-facing. We’ll build a customized solution that fits your team and your business to make it more productive, efficient, and effective than ever before.

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