One of the reasons you chose to work in student housing is because you love the work. You could’ve gone into finance, accounting, gone for your law degree, or any number of other things, but you chose student housing. No, it wasn’t to avoid “the real world;” it was to do what you do best: help students. And yet, now you find yourself bogged down in paperwork, legalese, and budget restrictions, not to mention a whole host of tasks that have seemingly nothing to do with student housing.
One of the more onerous tasks that student housing folks have to deal with on a regular basis is logging packages by hand for their students. Whether you have to do this yourself or you have to oversee others who do it for you, this is one task that almost no one enjoys. You might think that while this task is annoying drudgery, it does not rate spending money from your already squeezed budget. Many people feel this way, but it turns out that most of them are wrong. Let me tell you why.
You were hired for both your strengths in problem solving and for your interpersonal skills. Those are the skills that you should be using every day, because those are the skills that the university is paying for. For every hour that you are logging packages or overseeing that process, you and your team are actually costing the university money. How? This is because they could’ve spent far less on a person specifically hired to do nothing but log packages all day. That person would not be required to have your level of expertise and experience, and thus his or her time would cost the university far less than yours.
We at EZTrackIt have heard several arguments along the lines of “it really doesn’t cost the school any money because they have to pay us to be here anyway” or “we have to give the work visa students something to do, so logging packages is as good as anything else.” Both of these arguments fall short if you consider the previous paragraph and remember where your true skills lie. Semantics aside, let’s talk numbers.
A package logging software solution like EZTrackIt will allow you and your staff to log packages 4 to 10 times faster than logging packages by hand. Our Easy Track It package logging system will get those packages picked up 6 to 20 times faster than the traditional notification method of placing slips in students’ mailboxes. When there are fewer packages in the package room, finding student packages takes less time as well. One of our clients used to spend two hours a day logging in packages. Now they only spend twenty minutes on the same task by using our package logging software. What could you and your staff do with an additional 1 to 2 hours of time per person every day? What could you accomplish? What could you produce? There are 100 reasons why you should consider package logging software to automate your manual process today. I’ll leave you with three.
- 1. EZTrackIt’s
package logging system will reduce your labor costs, thus saving your school money.
- 2. Our
Easy Track Itpackage logging software
- will drastically reduce the amount of “busy work” that you need to deal with, allowing you time to get real work done.
- 3. EZTrackIt’s
- will free up your staff’s time so that they can do those projects that you have been waiting on for the last three weeks.
Reduce your university’s labor costs and free up precious time for you and your staff with our Easy Track It package logging system. Contact us to determine the optimum package logging software for your school, or try a free demo!
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