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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Be sure to have the HRIS that suits your company by creating it yourself! With NOVA Smart NG, build a customised HRIS by choosing only the modules you need!

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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 understand the challenges the Facility Management industry face with HR. NOVA Smart is an adaptable HR software that will keep up with these demands and make your processes smoother. Enabling you to offer the best employee experience.

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These are five features you will love about NOVA Smart:

Adaptable Software

We understand that every business is unique; therefore your HR processes will be. Here at NOVATIVE, we pay attention to details with each of our customers. We do not offer one-size fits all standard package this in our view is impossible with each businesses different policies and procedures. As we craft our software in-house, our smart developers will create an HR platform specific to your needs, and that is what you will pay for. No need to pay for extra HR functions your business will not need. As NOVA Smart is based in our highly secure NOVA Cloud, you can add features or remove them as, as and when your business needs them, it will adapt to your needs quickly.

Central All-In-One Platform

What does an all-in-one platform mean? Many businesses have processes for each process, whether that be manual with paper or digitally. Either way, this is a very time-consuming method, which does not give you the overall picture, where things can get overlooked or missed. NOVA Smart covers all your essential HR processes in one place, giving you a central database to fundamental processes such as recruitment, appraisals, work schedules, expenses, absence management. This saves time as you are not logging in and out of different digital HR apps, or sifting and filing paper. It also gives a full picture of HR in your company.

User-Friendly Software

It is all very well purchasing some software for your business that has all these capabilities, but it is useless if your workforce cannot use it. NOVA Smart has a very user-friendly interface. The self-service portal for managers and employees is very clear and easy to use.

Reports & Analytics

Businesses are under more pressure to be more transparent with their workforce data. Many experts see statements such as the Gender-Pay-Gap report as just the beginning with these type of reports and believe the government will soon require businesses to provide a wide variety. Analysing HR data will also give you insights into many aspects of your business, and give you the power to make confident data-driven decisions.

NOVA Smart Mobile App

We use mobile apps every day in our personal lives; our professional ones should be no different. Remote working, demand for flexibility and the next generation moving into the workforce will see more and more HR processes becoming mobile. NOVA Smart will always be ahead of innovation, our mobile app allows for time management, time off requests, scheduling access. Your employees will feel they have more control over their time management, while your management team will be able to authorise or decline requests quickly and effectively.

It is time to keep ahead of the HR evolution. If you are inspired for your HR processes to be efficient and up-to-date with modern trends, then please contact one of our HR experts today to discuss your HR needs.

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The feat of a company boils down to its ability to mobilise its employees, which is why human resources are active about absenteeism. Absenteeism is a phenomenon that is designated collective given the number of employees who are absent, and behaviour contrary to social expectations, it expresses a moral opinion as well as a value judgment.
Absenteeism is seen as negative since it corresponds to an absence that is either unauthorised (non-compliance with contractual commitments), or an authorised absence, but which has harmful consequences for the performance of the company. This is how you have to distinguish between two situations, sick leave and training leave, the first one delays the activity, while the second is an investment to improve the company’s performance.

When Absenteeism is Related to the Work Environment

Employees may be absent for health issues whether physical or psychological, but when working conditions are not right, it causes significant disinterestedness.
Other factors may be the management style, the lack of transparency, the lack of communication of the strategic vision of the company in the short or long term, or the lack of clear and precise objectives. The repeated absence can have consequences such as a tendency to demotivate, an overload as well as a decrease in the quality of work for the present, without forgetting the desocialization and put away from the absent employees. It is reflected in the level of continuity and organisation of work since the absentees are not always replaced, which forces the present to change their schedules and the cadence thus inheriting an extra workload and fatigue. In another perspective, this prevents the presents from working on other functions. The time spent redoing schedules is lost for other tasks that are beneficial to the company, for example, the mobilisation and animation of staff, the search for a new strategy to improve the organisation. The managerial approach is to look for the real causes to translate them into solutions to set up the necessary support actions.

Renovate the Way of Working

When a common factor is identified, this requires a reorientation of the company and an improvement of the overall conditions.Reducing the absence rate requires managers to set up an HR system that will empower each employee. Which can be done in the first place by studying the requirements and expectations of employees, and then identify the causes of absences. Secondly, to create a secure and robust environment, fair and appropriate remuneration, and respect for their administrative rights.

Nova Smart HR Solution

Nova Smart for Presence Management and Pointing is a 100% web solution used from a browser. This module ensures transparent management of absences in real time within the company and keeps all the history. Whether the absence is due to vacation, sickness, accident or mission, absences are entered with all the required information.

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• Editors note this post was written by NOVATIVE’s newest marketing team member Ikram Elkouay

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