Although it’s common to ask your workers how they’re doing, and if there’s anything else you could implement into the workplace to make their lives easier, a worker’s comfort is never prioritised, particularly in the warehouse.

Comfort is a motivator. Comfortable workers, means happy workers, and happy workers generate motivation within the workplace, therefore resulting in improved operations.

Despite warehouse workers being on their feet for hours per day, and their main duties being manual labour, comfort questions are usually associated in an office environment, with workers being asked about how the temperature, lighting, or relaxed dress code can improve their comfort to work harder. So how can you ensure your warehouse workers are getting the same treatment?

Do you change their uniform?

Invest in comfier footwear?

Introduce more comfort breaks?

How about considering the worker’s hardware? As sometimes the smallest changes to worker’s technology can deliver the biggest results.

Realistically, it’s hard to find the correct hardware that meets all of the specification requirements, such as lightweight, ergonomic, and rugged. Which is where ourselves and Zebra Technologies come in. We ensure that you choose the correct device for your workflow environment, as we know that choosing the wrong device can lead to frustrated workers, and ultimately productivity loss.

Zebra Technologies has a range of devices, from mobile computers, scanners and tablets, with the Zebra MC9300 Handheld Mobile Computer being at the top of its class for the harshest environments. This device is virtually waterproof, drop-proof and dust-proof, with Corning Gorilla Glass bringing maximum scratch-and-impact resistance. Additionally, with Zebra’s SE4850 Extended Range Imager, workers can capture any barcode from up to 70 feet away, meaning scanning can be operated with minimum effort and manual labor required from the worker, ensuring. With this device workers can ensure maximum capability, from the device and themselves, no matter the worker condition.

Zebra’s L10 Android Rugged Series is the “go anywhere” tablet, designed for indoor/outdoor use, extreme temperatures and even various vehicles. It’s magnesium frame is harder than steel, but lighter than aluminium, and can withstand multiple drops from a height. The series offers different design components, for you to choose the most suitable device for your business needs. The XBOOK offers a removable keyboard for easy use while standing, whilst the XPAD L10 is the easiest device to carry due to its integrated handle, and the XSLATE L10 is the smallest and lightest model, and the most suitable for workers who needs a traditional tablet design. With this tablet series, you can give your workers multiple device options for each role they have to adhere to within the warehouse, and with device specifications such as small, light and easy, it’s no doubt that you can ensure your workers comfort whilst using the devices.

Zebra also recently introduced the enterprise-class mobile device accessory, the HD4000 Head Mounted Display. This innovative device is a perfectly engineered for comfort and fits virtually any worker, even those with prescription glasses. It offers the best-in-class see through display, with crisp, sharp image quality, and focal distance is optimized, therefore minimizing eye fatigue. Mostly importantly, the device offers the upmost comfort, with a lightweight design that workers will forget that they are wearing glasses.

So, why choose Zebra Technologies?

Zebra Technologies always ensure that there’s a solution for everything, and that no challenge is too big. Fonterra is a global leader in dairy nutrition, and they required ruggedised devices to stand up to the demands of their industrial environment. Zebra assisted Fonterra to deploy test units in manufacturing, dry and cool stores and third-party warehouse environments, enabling Fonterra to evaluate the performance of Zebra units in a range of scenarios right alongside their existing scanners. In their report it was concluded that the operators reported scan speed improvements, and the they were so happy with the new units, that they didn’t want to hand back the demo hardware, therefore proving that a small technology change can make the massive difference between happy and unhappy workers.

For more information on Zebra’s Rugged devices, and other device solutions, feel free to contact us.