Four apps released by ServiceNow to help companies

ServiceNow released ServiceNow Safe Workplace, a four-app suite and dashboard designed to help companies manage the essential steps for returning employees to the workplace and support everyone’s health and safety. Immediately available on servicenow.com/safeworkplace, the Safe Workplace app suite is powered by the Now Platform.

“Let’s get the world healthy, safe and back to the workplace,” said Bill McDermott, ServiceNow CEO. “ServiceNow is helping companies manage the complex workflows required to keep employees healthy and workplaces safe. The ServiceNow Safe Workplace app suite and dashboard are engineered to make returning to the workplace work for everyone.”

ServiceNow Safe Workplace Apps and Dashboard

“In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, business transformation is happening before our eyes and organizations are relying on technology to enable employees and digitize processes,” said Josh Bersin, Global Industry Analyst and Dean of the Josh Bersin Academy. “ServiceNow’s Safe Workplace app suite is exactly the kind of solution organizations need to effectively manage the return to the workplace and optimize employee experience.”

To support companies’ workforce readiness efforts led by Human Resources, IT, Legal and Workplace Services departments, ServiceNow has released the following apps:

• Employee Readiness Surveys: Helps organizations gauge their workforce’s level of preparedness to return to the workplace by presenting and capturing employee responses to a series of questions that address employees’ personal readiness for and level of interest in returning to the workplace. Based on employee responses, employers can determine the necessary and appropriate steps to help ensure a smooth and safe re-entry for employees. 
• Employee Health Screening: Enables companies to screen employees before entering the workplace to ensure compliance with entry requirements such as temperature check and personal protective equipment (PPE) allowing employers to determine if it’s safe for the employee to enter the workplace. The app also provides a reporting dashboard to view trends by sites and record the return of employees into their facilities. 

ServiceNow also released two new apps to support companies’ preparedness to bring employees back to the workplace:

• Workplace Safety Management: The app lets managers assign shifts so that employees occupy these workspaces for a specific amount of time and configure cleaning schedules at the end of each shift. Out-of-the-box reports and dashboards give managers a real-time view of both workspace reservations and reservation thresholds across floors, buildings and sites. Workplace managers also have a real-time view of all cleaning task status, including a full audit trail history. 
• Workplace PPE Inventory Management: Helps organizations manage and monitor their PPE inventory needs to ensure the physical safety of their workforce. The app’s dashboard provides a comprehensive view of inventory by facility, as well as an aggregate look at the entire workplace and historical data on how equipment levels have changed over time. Inventory levels can be updated daily for accurate, real-time inventory management.  

Using the power of the Now Platform, ServiceNow pulls together all of the data collected by these apps into a single view with its Safe Workplace Dashboard. Available at no charge, the dashboard provides visualizations for data collected by these apps, and will be overlaid with a map using aggregated public data on infection rates. This enables organizations to see what infections look like geographically and drill down into specific workplace locations. Sites are marked with indicators flagging a company’s ability to open and remain open based on workforce and workplace readiness.

“At Lincoln we have teams across the organization working tirelessly to develop, communicate and execute a plan for returning our employees to the workplace,” said Lisa M. Buckingham, executive vice president and chief people, place and brand officer for Lincoln Financial Group.

Organizations that are digitally transformed with digital workflows in place will be better-enabled to get back to work more efficiently, productively and safely. ServiceNow is committed to helping its customers manage through this pandemic and make going back to the workplace work for everyone.

Expanding on Emergency Response Apps

The announcement builds upon ServiceNow’s March 16^th introduction of a customer care program to support customers as they focus on maintaining business operations during the COVID‑19 pandemic. As part of the March announcement, the company released four community apps that help government agencies and enterprises manage complex emergency response workflows. These apps are available at servicenow.com/crisisresponse for customers to access free of charge through September 30, 2020.

ServiceNow also released updates to two of these apps to further support companies as they pivot to return their workforce to a traditional workplace. These updates include: 

• Emergency Self Report: This app helps an employee notify their employer that they are self-quarantined and when the employee will return to the workplace, and provides workflow support for the employer. The app is now supported onNow Mobile so that employees can self report from their desktop or mobile device.  
• Emergency Outreach: This app helps companies connect with employees to assess the impact. Employers can reach out by email to provide information and safety measures and request a response to confirm if employees are safe and where they are located. Employers can also leverage the ServiceNow Now Mobile App to send push notifications to employees via mobile to get response. ServiceNow has updated Emergency Outreach to integrate with other communications channels such as Slack and Microsoft Teams.