Fast 8 Group Launches "Contact Tracing" Feature in the Present App

Functioning to facilitate employees' work from home, the productivity SaaS platform offered by several startups is experiencing growth and awareness which is quite significant. Including for present, a human resources platform under the auspices of Fast 8.

Fast 8 Group alone oversees four productivity SaaS platforms, including Gadjian (payroll service), present (employee performance management service), Benefits (employee facility management services), employee (employee administration service).

In Indonesia, there are already multiple SaaS startups which also provides similar services. Among them are platforms that take shelter below Mekari.

To DailySocial, Co-founder & CEO Fast 8 Group Afia Fitriati revealed, the growth of users on Presentr was quite sharp during the pandemic. The company even managed to get clients from traditional segments that previously tended to be resistant or slow to adapt to digitalization. To accelerate business growth, the company also intends to launch fundraising activities.

"Currently we are also doing fundraising for the pre-series A, which is extension and will continue with fundraising series A," said Afia.

Launch features contact tracking

Present is known and used because it has features that help companies implement work from home or working remotely, such as attendance features with capabilities geofencing & face recognition, feature time sheetand client visits to monitor activity visits to clients.

With features contact tracking, Attendance is also useful for companies whose employees still have to work at the company o, offices and factories. Even though the PSBB rules are implemented, the company can continue to take advantage of the presence of the company.

"So, with the addition of tracking capabilities through signals, we can contribute to the handling of Covid-19 in Indonesia, especially to minimize transmission cases in offices, factories and other work areas," Afia said.

Fitur contact tracking Present relying on signal bluetooth emitted from the phone to find other coworkers nearby. This allows companies to identify who from the workplace may have been in contact with someone infected with Covid-19.

When an employee reports being infected with Covid-19 to the human resources department, the system will provide a list of other employees who could potentially approach an infected person within 14 days and allow the HR team to immediately send an exposure alert to the potentially infected person.

Thus, this system can help companies prevent the closure of all offices, break the chain of transmission of Covid-19, and minimize related business risks. Feature contact tracking newly launched can be used at no additional cost for Presentr subscribers via the channel free trial.

"Core values from Fast-8 as the parent company of Gadjian and Presentr applications is always to provide added value and help clients grow. Especially during this pandemic, we believe that the only way Indonesia can get out of the Covid-19 crisis is if we work hand in hand against the various challenges of the pandemic," Afia said.