Promote internal staff mobility and e-learning

In the past, the trend was to focus on external recruitment if there was not an internal skill match for a position. The pandemic has caused this trend to turn to focus on internal mobility. Companies are seeking to develop the skills of their employees to optimise their know-how. Therefore, they use workforce planning to identify the critical skills that are missing and those that are obsolete. They also offer upskilling and reskilling training aimed at updating and creating new skills within a logic of internal mobility. 

How can efficient HRIS help you?

With a high-performance digital tool, you can clearly assess the skills of your employees and visualise those that are missing or can be requalified. You can thus define key objectives and collect the training needs of your employees. Some modules also allow you to conduct online training and thus contribute to the success and development of your employees. 

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Optimise and analyse employee’s data

In recent years, HR teams have become aware of the need to make good use of employee data. With the pandemic, it became clear that companies that had automated these processes were able to benefit from up-to-date files and therefore reliable data for relevant and predictive analysis.  

How can efficient HRIS help you?

With a cloud-based HRIS, you have real-time visibility into your employee data and can update HR records, track status changes and perform a range of HR analyses at any time. Businesses have a growing need for data storage and HR reporting and are also making data security a priority. A high-performance HRIS makes these tasks easier and allows you to make decisions based on accurate data. Using up-to-date data can also reduce risks in a situation such as the pandemic. Collecting data will help you know if you’re employees are at high risk and in the case of another outbreak, you will be able to pinpoint them quickly and take action to protect them.

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Ensuring your company is compliant

Ensuring compliance with current legislation is a vital HR task. It can be especially challenging if the company employs people in several countries. During the pandemic, legislation in most countries has changed, particularly labour laws, and this has put increased pressure on HR teams.

How can efficient HRIS help you?

An HRIS makes it easier for you to get organised and quickly respond to changes in legislation. In the context of a pandemic, companies can use their HRIS to effectively plan teams to ensure that the maximum number of people in a single location is not exceeded, or to plan cleaning teams and ensure that every space is properly disinfected. Having an efficient HRIS has also enabled HR teams to effectively manage employee absences and the various legislative changes, especially in terms of short-time working and paid leave management.

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Make the well-being of your employees a priority

How can you ensure maintaining productivity even in times of crisis? Make the well-being of your employees a priority. In these times of uncertainty, adapted and participative management has been the key to success for many companies. Managing your teams remotely from home is not a simple task and trust and transparency have been key in this situation! As for returning employees or those who have never left the workplace, it is more beneficial than ever to set clear and precise objectives, realign goals and reassure employees.

How can efficient HRIS help you?

Thanks to a unifying platform, managers can more easily communicate with their teams and support them in carrying out their tasks. Managers can use training or evaluation modules to set clear objectives and thus avoid confusion among employees. As for employees, they need to feel involved and heard, especially if they work far away from the company. Communication is the key and HRIS makes it easy for you! 

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Opt for a high-performance digital environment

in the context of remote working

During the pandemic, many employees found themselves in a remote working position. Recreating one’s workspace at home is not always an easy task and many companies and employees had faced technical challenges: lack of equipment, not ready and accessible platform to work on, no tracking of hours, no access to the necessary documents… In a recent service conducted by Buffer, a whopping 98% of employees said that would like to continue remote working in some kind of capacity. Indicating this trend will continue, therefore, HR teams need to adapt to this way of working.

How can an HRIS help you?

In this context, many HR departments have realised the need for a cloud-based HRIS that is accessible and available 24 hours a day to maintain efficient HR management and to bring employees together around the same platform. An HRIS can automate a lot of tasks, leading to a more efficient, time-saving and accurate result for processes such as time management, absence management, employee data management, collaborative work… Employees can access their payslips whenever they wish, and they can follow-up their leave request and access the documents they need to keep working effectively.

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Accurately Capture Employees Time

One of the challenges of remote working is to be able to manage employee schedules, absences and to track hours. HR teams have had to become more agile to organise the monitoring of this activity and face unforeseen events. The pandemic has caused employment laws, many focusing on time and absence, to change rapidly. Some HR teams may have found this very challenging to keep up with and put into action quickly. HR teams need a tool that would help following-up new rules and regulations in real-time and share quickly among their workforce.

How can an HRIS help you?

Using a digital tool to track employees’ hours and capture their absences and presences in real-time, companies have been able to ensure the continuity of their activity. As health measures have been reinforced before and after the lockdown, HR needs to create schedules efficiently to ensure the smooth running of shifts. The number of employees shall not exceed the maximum authorised and all employment legislation must be respected. An HRIS will also allow you to change in real-time and quickly laws and regulations applied to time and absence management to reflect compliance thus reducing the risks.

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Streamline recruitment processes by digitalizing

Digitalizing recruitment processes is a trend that has been emerging for some time and is becoming increasingly important with remote working. How to recruit remotely? How to ensure that the applicant has the required skills and qualities? How to find the right CV skills match in an increasing number of applicants due to unemployment increasing? These are questions that often come up when the digitalisation of such processes is mentioned.

How can an HRIS help you?

With digital tools, it is becoming easier and easier to find the brightest talent. HRIS offer tools that publish job positions, facilitate the creation of application files, compare the skills of the different applicants and thus favour decision-making. Once a talent has been recruited it makes it very easy to integrate a new employee. The increase in applicants due to unemployment because of the pandemic, the recruitment software will automate a search of certain skill match for the position. Automation of decline emails can be sent. In the same context, there is an increase in the number of companies hiring the contingent worker. Recruiting and easily integrating a new employee will save your HR department a considerable amount of time.

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We are in the new decade and leaving behind a decade that saw a substantial change in HR. The 20 teens saw the rise of HR tech bringing in a range of solutions. As we enter this new decade a very different change is on the horizon, the intergenerational workforce. Never have so many generations been in a workforce. This change will influence every aspect of HR, from recruitment, leadership, and organisational values.

Business Leader has stated: “It’s predicted that by 2020 the global workforce would be dominated by millennials (35%) and generation X (35%), with baby boomers only making up 6%.”

Organisations will now have to navigate between these generations different needs and get ready for the next impending generation – Generation Z.

Break down of the generation workforce

What do different Generation desire from their jobs?

Baby Boomers 

Baby boomers have been the longest-serving generation in the current workforce. Due to this, they aspire to have job security as they are approaching retirement and are looking to wind down at the end of their career. Through their working life, careers and goals have been defined by employers, and the bottom line of the company has been the focus. 

Generation X 

Generation X has the benefit of living in a time before digitalisation but was a part of it when it came in to being. Their priorities are looking after family, both young and old. Work-life balance is very important, and this generation may stay in the same profession but not necessarily with the same employer. 

Millennials 

Millennials give more emphasis on company values rather than money and want to work for an organisation with a good and like-minded ethos to theirs. Development is also very high on their career agenda and look to leaders as mentors. Millennials have deep ambition and seek a dynamic work environment.

Gen Z 

Gen Z has similar priorities to millennials. According to research, they have more worries about the economy and aspire to have security and stability as a result; they are career multitaskers taking advantage of the gig economy.

Generational Common Workplace Goals

There are, however, some commonplace workplace goals that all generations are looking from their organisations.

Flexibility

It seems all the generations are looking for flexibility from their organisation. The standard 9-5 is fast becoming a very outdated outlook on working patterns. All the generations are looking for a more flexible approach to their working patterns.

Contributing to Organisational Success

All employees want to feel that they are making a difference within their company. They want to know that their presence and work is making an impact and helping towards the company’s success.

Motivation

One of the biggest factors for employees to feel happy and secure at their workplace is a very simple one – appreciation. Companies that have a strong process for recognition of employees have a lower turn over of staff. Employees that feel invested in by their company also have a low turnover, which is why staff training and development is becoming increasingly vital in retaining staff.

But what does this mean for HR?

Existing trends will become more effective to achieve the generational common interests and to reach generational specific interests. Trends such as employer branding will become increasingly important, as companies will battle it out with their core values to attract and retain talent. HR and marketing will collaborate more to use their expertise to get the message out correctly.

Appraisals will not be a dreaded exercise to be turned down for a pay rise but will become a vital process to enhance employee engagement and encourage communication in the workforce.

Leadership will adapt to mentoring employees and paying attention to detail of all the generation needs in the workforce. HR will need to influence the company to adapt an agile management process. Employees seek more and more to feel that their work is worthwhile and that they are a part of the company’s success. Management will need to learn to be mentors, include employees in goals and targets, listen to ideas, but ultimately make the final decisions.

Ageism could become more prominent when it comes to hiring so data on this might need to be provided to the government such as the gender balance report.

Staff development is crucial in retaining talent. Companies that have a training process in place and spend time investing in their employees see higher retention.

How NOVA Smart HRMS Can Help

These challenges are coming, and technology is the key for HR to stay ahead of these changes. HR will need to become more available to have face-to-face and physical engagement with employees. In order to achieve an appreciation and the employee engagement that is required from the workforce. Automating of certain HR processes will be critical in order to achieve this.

NOVA Smart HRMS software is an all-in-one platform and is agile to evolve with your companies HR needs. NOVA Smart has every element your company needs to be the front runners of a successful HR department. Covering the employees full lifecycle: Recruitment, onboarding, training, workforce scheduling, absence management, time and attendance, appraisals. Through these modules NOVA Smart can offer you powerful analytics tools, to help your HR department to make better decision based on the data of your people.

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