Rehiring for key positions is an expensive inconvenience that most companies want to avoid: employee retention is far more preferable. But how do you stop your best people from quitting? Many experts point to DEI as the answer, but while discussions usually focus on Diversity and Equality, the third part of this equation, Inclusion, is most often the breaking point for an employee’s experience.

In the last 18 months employee experience (EX) has risen to the top of the agenda. Organisations are now increasingly looking to give their employees a voice, to validate and make the most of their valuable experience. But now the more advanced companies are taking it even further.

Talent development is one of the critical components of business success and longevity as it ensures its growth and sustainability. Companies with efficient employee learning programs have an invaluable asset that allows them to differentiate themselves, which is crucial in the post-pandemic era.

In the last few decades, the world of work evolved faster than ever before, adapting to the generational shift, HR technology rise, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Nowadays, most employers are aware of the importance of their workers’ satisfaction as it impacts their productivity, performance, and the company’s bottom line.

Human resources (HR) tasks have largely been document- and form-driven manual work. Advancements in computing, however, now allow HR professionals to utilise automation technology. But reducing time-consuming and repetitive tasks to a few simple steps is just one of HR automation’s advantages for business.

At its most basic, time tracking software is an HR automation application that carefully monitors the time and resources spent on tasks by an employee or a group of employees. Time tracking applications usually have the following features:

Tracking work hours
Tracking billable hours
Taking screenshots of employees’ workstations
Analytics and reporting

Time tracking is a function of time management in an enterprise.

We live in a time when there are many different human resource (HR) applications made to perform HR functions — including applicant tracking for hiring, core policy generation, payroll management, and employee performance appraisal — more efficiently. However, we haven’t come to a point in application development where humans are expendable in the HR value chain.

The benefits of a positive work culture cannot be overstated. When employees are more engaged and motivated, they’re more productive. There are countless ways to engage and motivate employees — most of which are made easier by technology.

One such tool is a human resources management system (HRMS), a powerful software platform that integrates all the tools and processes used by HR professionals.

Managing a workforce involves several responsibilities, ranging from recruitment, onboarding, offboarding, performance management, learning management plus time and attendance. Taking care of each separately is counterproductive and not cost-effective. A human resource management system (HRMS) is a software platform that integrates all the tools and processes used by HR professionals to get all of these tasks done in a more effortless system.

Without the aid of digital technology, human resource (HR) management is chock-full of overwhelming tasks, from having to organise data coming from different silos to juggling different HR functions essential to the company.

However, technology has made HR responsibilities such as recruitment, payroll and performance evaluation more manageable and efficient.