How Gauge Works for Remote Teams

Level Up Online Testing and Exam Management for Remote Teams with Gauge

It’s been a turbulent few years for office work, remote teams, and work culture in general, and as a top global online test delivery software platform, Gauge has an up-close view of this rapidly-changing landscape. Due to challenges related to the pandemic, a wildly fluctuating economy, and climate change, more organizations and companies are coming to terms with the fact that in many cases, the benefits of remote work far outweigh the challenges. From where we sit, it looks like remote work is here to stay.

While the pandemic is what most recently forced remote work in many sectors, there’s long been a need to efficiently manage online testing and remote certification for field service workers such as install and repair technicians and workers in the oil and gas industry. Gauge offers all the tools needed to streamline that process, and can also make it easy for professional organizations that want to expand into new geographic regions to certify candidates.

Benefits of hiring remote teams

Many industries depend on remote field professionals, but more companies, organizations, and government entities recognize that a hyperlocal office work population isn’t a necessity. There are myriad benefits – for workers and their employers – to building teams comprised of remote desk job professionals. These benefits affect everyone’s bottom line, as well as workers’ quality of life, mental and physical health, happiness and fulfillment, and ultimately loyalty to their employer.

Benefits to hiring remote teams include:

• Fewer Overhead Expenses – you’ll no longer need to pay for a bricks and mortar location and will also save the cost of associated maintenance.
• Higher Productivity – Remote workers, particularly those that work from home, are up to 10% more productive than on-site, centralized workers.
• Wider Reach – with more work being done in the cloud, you can hire workers from desirable locations and tap into talent pools you wouldn’t be able to access otherwise. With a stable internet connection you can ensure critical documents and information are synced across teams no matter where workers are located.
• More Cash in Workers Pocket – remote work significantly reduces worker’s costs related to commuting, parking, meals, and wardrobe, so more money goes in their pocket.
• More Time in Workers Week – eliminating long, unpaid commute times for workers puts valuable time back in their days for family and friends, important appointments, and managing the other aspects of their lives.
• Higher Job Satisfaction and Retention – having more flexibility and spending less time and money to work in an office increases worker job satisfaction and consequently makes employees more likely to stay with a job long-term.

Gauge benefits for managing remote teams

In this ever-shifting professional landscape, we’re committed to routinely fine-tuning Gauge’s functionality to meet the changing needs of our customers. Our learning, testing, and certification test delivery software is built to ensure that organizations, companies, and government bodies with both local and remote teams can easily manage their skill development, compliance, and recruitment programs.

Here are some of the key ways Gauge works to help you manage these processes for remote teams:

• User Management – as long as you have an internet connection, you can be anywhere in the world and add new users into the system individually or in bulk or invite users to set themselves up by clicking on a link. You can also easily assign user permissions to limit individual access or create additional administrators who can help manage certain aspects of the program, such as a supervisor who is stationed with remote workers and has regular communication with that team.
• User Access – once users are in the system, they are able to login to their individual dashboard to access direct communications, learning modules, tests, and certificates, from any place that has an internet connection. This is especially helpful for field workers who might need to complete a module or take a test while working on a job site.
• Multi-Media Capabilities – video learning materials that would typically be shown to groups in person in a room can be easily added to learning modules and even tests so they can be viewed at the worker’s convenience.
• Multiple Test Purposes – you can design tests for every possible purpose, including technical skills and knowledge assessment as well as team members’ communication and collaboration abilities and personality styles. Assessing these different categories helps ensure you’re building remote teams that can get the job done and get along with one another.
• Built-In Security Features – when testing remotely, a top concern is security.. Gauge lets you build exams for remote teams using automated question banks and incorporates remote proctoring, IP authentication, data encryption, and audit logging to ensure a secure testing experience for users and protect your organization’s proprietary information.
• Accessibility – more and more people with disabilities are thriving in the workforce thanks to the standardization of accessibility tools, and Gauge is committed to eliminating barriers to make sure our users can access the information they need.
• Built-In Communication Tools – you can direct message and email your remote team members and field workers right inside the platform so you can provide them with instructions, reminders, and updates easily for every step of their journey all with one tool.
• Robust Credentialing – keeping team members licenses and certifications up-to-date is critical to maintaining smooth business operations. The combined power of learning modules, automated tests, and custom certificate generation lets you seamlessly keep remote teams moving forward.
• Instant Data – with immediate test results that can be quickly turned into reports, you’ll know immediately if remote team members understand the skills and responsibilities related to their job so you can make timely staffing decisions on the fly, no matter where you’re located.

We know how important it is to keep your people credentialed without the frustration of trying to wrangle in-person and group learning and testing events, juggling multiple apps to manage a single program, and having to wait for results. Whether you’re managing remote teams of traveling nurses, oil and gas engineers, heavy equipment operators, or office workers supporting a single project from a dozen countries, Gauge provides the features, flexibility, and security you need to stay on track and meet your goals.

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If your certification program is running on tools that were never built for it — and you’re starting to feel the friction in your daily operations — Gauge was designed for exactly this situation. It handles the full exam lifecycle for professional credentialing programs, from item banking through results and credential issuance, without requiring you to stitch together separate systems.