Author: Ashish Deshpande

With the increasing popularity of remote work, the demand for electronic signatures (“eSignatures” or “e-signatures”) has skyrocketed. Employees may be working from home but businesses still need to continue operations and obtain properly signed documents.

They must still sign off on purchases, onboard new hires, and approve invoices. With e-signatures, users can easily sign electronic documents online using their mouse, stylus, or touchscreen device. Businesses can still enforce corporate policies and proper governance.

Electronic signature software also speeds up these everyday activities since there’s no need for printing, signing, scanning, and filing. Managers can even electronically sign off on a PO or new hire using their mobile device at any time and from anywhere.

But are electronic signatures legally binding? In this piece, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about whether your e-signature is legal or not. 

It’s no surprise that over half of business leaders are showing an interest in workflow automation.

After all, 74% of business leaders and employees believe segments of their jobs could be automated. 

Not only would this speed up workflows, but it would also reduce labor costs and increase workflow scalability.

Whether you’re managing them or not, every business has processes.

The problem is that if you’re not taking control over how you manage those processes, you won’t be able to spot the blockages in your pipelines.

The result? Extra costs, unexplained delays, and repeated errors.

If these issues sound familiar, it’s time to take control.

Most businesses could stand to improve their processes.

It’s not that businesses are purposely choosing to run ineffectively, they just don’t realize where they could boost efficiency.

For example, most organizations don’t realize that at least a third of activities for 60% of jobs could be automated. Just imagine what your company could achieve with all that extra time.

To understand where you could streamline operations, you need to dig into the different processes at play within your firm.

Every organization has its own set of workflows for everyday tasks. These workflows used to rely on paper forms, ledgers, and inter-office memos.

Most teams have now “progressed” to using Excel and email. While it’s better than physical paper, email-based workflows are still manual and inefficient.

The good news is that modern, cloud-based software is putting the power of automated, digital workflows in the hands of non-technical business users.