The decision to digitalise your HR processes and move away from paper based systems is one which you will inevitably have to make. The only questions are when, and what system to go with.
HR software has long been an ignored part of a company’s strategy, however more organisations are now realising the value of it.
As technology improves and business practices modernise the most forward thinking of companies adopt these new solutions early; the rest are forced to play catch up.
Recently we have witnessed a wave of excitement about how social networking sites can be utilised in the workplace, but it doesn’t stop there; the web 2.0 revolution has seen hundreds of new web apps enter the market; from
prezi.com, to
mindmeister.com a huge variety exist each with huge potential for adoption in the workplace.
Having said that, for each great app out there which ticks all the rights boxes, there is a useless one; and the same is true for HR software.
Let’s not forget that the main purpose of technology in the workplace is to empower the enterprise’s most important resources – employees.
A consistent challenge for employers is how to deploy and maintain valuable solutions in a cost-effective manner, whilst taking into account user experience; if the user’s experience with the solution is poor, benefits will at best be reduced and in the worst case, offset entirely.
As publicly facing web applications continue to improve, employers are being pressured to provide tools with a comparable level of user experience to employees.
People do not magically alter their expectations of technology when they walk through the office door. Increasingly positive experiences with web-based technologies have helped shape the expectations that users have of software in general. Someone expecting an easy task that turns out to be difficult would be less satisfied than expecting a difficult task that is indeed difficult.
This makes perfect sense; after all, it has become mundane to search the entire Internet on almost any topic and retrieve relevant results but disheartening to search the company intranet and be unable to find a holiday calendar.
If IT capabilities do not allow employees to complete activities quickly and meet their work goals effectively, a wide array of negative effects can result. At the most basic level, users will simply not be able to work as effectively as possible; reducing productivity.
A more subtle but real consequence of poorly implemented IT in the workplace is frustrated employees. Given the number of hours in a day that some employees spend using IT services, this result should not be taken lightly!
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