For a long time now, large businesses have used a variety of applications, software tools and technology systems within their HR departments. Their reason for doing this is simple: there are more people, as well as infrastructure and paperwork required to support them, than these companies’ HR teams can handle manually. So they use technology to automate routine tasks, streamline processes, ensure compliance and more. As a result, they increase efficiency and minimize their need to spend valuable resources on additional staff.
The game has been a bit different for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). These companies have a similar percentage of total headcount devoted specifically to HR (usually between one to five percent), but they don’t have the total employee base or infrastructure needs of larger organizations. Even with the smaller HR staff, they’ve typically been able to handle everything on their own.
But recently, the game has changed. There’s more work for HR to do than ever before: more effort is needed to support increasing numbers of employees working remotely; there are more compliance mandates to follow and keep track of, and more keep coming all the time; more/better benefits and compensation packages are needed to attract and retain talent in today’s competitive landscape; and more. It all takes additional time and effort, and there’s only so much of both available with the team you have. So SMBs have a choice: either hire more people to keep up with the increased workload, or find and implement more efficient ways of getting things done.
In the Spring 2022 issue of Upsize Minnesota magazine, I talk about leveraging HR technology for small to medium-sized businesses. We can transform your company’s HR function, generating more efficiency and savings of time, money and risk. Read the full story here:
Upsize Minnesota March/April 2022:
https://lnkd.in/g-DZiWb7
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