Utilities across the country must manage more routine and unplanned work with a shrinking workforce as senior linemen retire and are replaced with fewer full time junior workers. Business automation is the path teams can take to greater agility and more effective hybrid workforce management.
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The large scale administrative challenge of identifying the right mutual assistance crews has been simplified through digital advancements. As it turns out, there is a simple and modern solution to the logistical challenges of directing and tracking storm response crews, and it’s in the pocket of almost every employee and contractor. Smart phones.
As utilities expand their systems and manage increasing numbers of outages with a leaner team, it’s more important than ever to have an agile resource management strategy. This imperative is even more urgent as the entire planet faces record breaking heat waves, bringing atmospheric rivers to the west coast, wildfires, monster tornadoes in the south, and large scale flash bloods to the northeast even as I write this.
In this edition of the Boogie Brief, Boogie offers his thoughts on how electricity providers can solve for the common challenge of fragmented information systems & data silos using ARCOS’s Utility Insight.

Attaining peak operational efficiency and unlocking your field team’s full potential is a matter of executing on a mobile workforce and resource management strategy and making all your systems work together.

By bringing consistency to full time employees and business partners, your team can overcome the generational and resource challenges holding back higher levels of operational excellence and efficiency.

Utilities, cooperatives, and municipal providers are simply undermanned and overworked. But how can they do more with less while improving reliability and safety?

In the final blog in his series, Chris McClain offers his thoughts on empowering crews to be flexible and bolstering their confidence to make decisions.
In this edition of the Boogie Brief, Boogie talks about the profound challenges electric utilities, cooperatives, and municipal providers face every day concerning system construction. And the measurable value ARCOS is driving with growing capability in digital construction management.

Southern Company’s Chris McClain shares his thoughts regarding the critical importance of mutual assistance empowering mutual assistance crews with mobile technology to seamlessly orchestrate storm response.