I’m sure you wonder how long you’re going to waste your time pushing paper. Your company hires the same way it used to 10 years ago. It conducts on-boarding and orients new recruits the same way. It makes critical HR decisions based on the same analysis it used to do for years. After all why change now?
What’s Changed in the Past Few Years?
In the past 3 years or so, smartphones have been literally forced into our hands. If you were evading this rapidly growing technological trend, it wasn’t long before you got a smartphone. If you didn’t know how to use a smartphone, you learned. There was simply no place to hide from it. At first, you bought smartphones because everyone you knew had one. Then you wanted to up your game and bought a better, faster and brighter-screened smartphone. And so went the rat race to have a smartphone that could do more.
What’s really happening here is that technology is forcing you to keep up with it.
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Over the years, having a smartphone isn’t about being cool, it’s about staying connected, being able to do more and ultimately, be more productive.
And so, why shouldn’t the same change take place in how you work? Why should you continue to be unproductive and waste your time pushing paper?
How Can Your Work Embrace Technology?
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Everyone’s jumping on the automation bandwagon. And so should your HR function and your employees.
Automating HR isn’t just about going paperless – it’s about harnessing the power of technology to make your HR function more accessible, making you work more productively, and leveraging it to engage your employees.
The future of smart working will be dependent on Mobile and Cloud computing. Your HR processes and procedures will need to embrace this rapidly evolving trend if it wants to continue to be relevant and engaging.
Some of you may say I’m a little late to bring up this topic. Honestly, you’ll be surprised to know that I’ve still met people from companies that have yet to embrace HR automation. While many have brought about some level of automation into their HR operations, they are still missing out the strategic value that it can bring. I’ll be talking more on this next week.
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