Google is putting its Maps app to work for businesses with a new initiative called Coordinate that helps you manage mobile workforces.
The idea is that if you can visualize where your various employees are at any given time, you can better deploy them. In the video above, the example is given of an alternative power company that is grappling with a storm that damaged one of its wind turbines. Using Coordinate, the company's CEO is able to create and assign a new job, fixing the turbine.
Employees, in turn, can update the status of their jobs and watch for new assignments via a mobile app. There's also a check-in option so the workers can prove they actually arrived at the site. (…
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