Top 3 automation wins for HR and IT in 2025

Every time HR moves, IT flinches.

Hire someone? IT ships a laptop. Promote a manager? IT updates app access. Offboard an employee? IT recovers devices, revokes permissions, and wipes data.

But in most companies, HR and IT systems don’t talk to each other. That means manual handoffs, Slack messages, ticketing queues, and spreadsheets trying to track it all. The result: delays, missed steps, and unnecessary risk.

Sam Oliver, Principal PMM at Deel IT, shared three major areas where automation is cutting through the noise and helping companies scale smarter in 2025. Here’s what we learned.

1. App access management: driven by HR, automated by IT

Let’s say you’re hiring someone. They accept the offer and are set to start Monday. HR sends a message to IT: "Can you give them access to Slack, Notion, and Salesforce?" IT creates a ticket. Maybe someone provisions it. Maybe they forget. Maybe they assign the wrong tools. Maybe that person ends up waiting until Wednesday to actually start working.

Now imagine this happening across dozens of hires, promotions, transfers, and exits every month. It’s slow. It’s messy. And it creates real risk.

Here’s why:

• People get access to tools they don’t need
• They keep access even after switching roles or leaving
• IT has no reliable system to track who has what
• Licenses go unused, or worse, oversubscribed, triggering extra costs

This isn’t just an IT problem. It’s an organizational one. And it stems from the fact that HR and IT don’t share a common system for managing tools, permissions, or access. That disconnect doesn’t just slow people down, it opens the door to real security threats. If someone still has access to sensitive systems after leaving the company, one missed offboarding step can turn into a data breach.

As we explored in A lost laptop is an inconvenience, a stolen identity is a catastrophe, the real cost of weak access management isn’t just operational. It’s reputational, financial, and sometimes even legal.

Deel IT fixes this by linking app access to the HRIS

Deel IT connects app provisioning directly to your HR data.

That means access is no longer a ticket someone has to remember to open. It becomes an automated workflow powered by a shared source of truth.

Here’s how it works:

• You define rules based on role, department, or location
• When HR updates an employee record, such as a new hire, promotion, or transfer, the right IT actions are triggered automatically
• The right tools are provisioned instantly, without anyone needing to take action
• When someone leaves, access is revoked across all connected systems without delay

You can also buy and assign licenses through Deel’s built-in marketplace, with integrations into tools like Google Workspace, Slack, Notion, GitHub, and more.

So HR doesn’t need to follow up. IT doesn’t have to guess. And your teams get what they need, exactly when they need it.

And if you're tired of chasing down vendors? Deel IT has its own built-in marketplace for tools like Slack, Google Workspace, and JumpCloud, so you can buy, assign, and manage licenses from one place.

2. Bring order to device chaos

Every employee needs a device to work. But for most companies, getting that device to the right person, on time, and fully configured is a logistical headache.

Here’s how it usually goes:

• HR hires someone
• IT orders a laptop from a vendor
• A third-party ships it (maybe)
• IT tries to configure it remotely after the fact
• Tracking happens in a spreadsheet (if at all)

If that sounds like a patchwork process, it’s because it is. Managing devices this way is slow, expensive, and prone to human error. It also creates compliance issues, especially when people are hired across different regions, each with its own procurement quirks and security standards.

Deel IT consolidates all of it

Deel IT brings together everything related to device logistics. That includes procurement, shipping, setup, tracking, and security. All of it runs through one system that connects directly to your HR platform.

Here’s how it works:

• You define what devices each role or region should receive
• Deel automatically ships the right hardware to the right location, anywhere in the world
• Devices are pre-configured and secured before they arrive, using built-in MDM capabilities
• Everything is logged in the Deel Asset Tracker and kept up to date throughout the employee lifecycle

Already have a fleet of devices in use? No problem. You can bulk upload your inventory or sync devices via Deel Agent to bring them into the platform and apply the same level of control and visibility.

Need to enforce security? You can:

• Remotely lock or wipe a device in seconds
• Apply encryption and policy controls globally
• Ensure compliance without juggling multiple tools

3. Keep people and assets in sync

In most companies, employee data lives in one system, and device data lives in another. App licenses might be tracked in a spreadsheet, while access permissions are managed manually through IT tools or not tracked at all.

This disconnect becomes a problem the moment someone changes roles, leaves the company, or joins a new team. Nothing updates automatically. IT teams have to hunt down information, chase people for clarification, and manually adjust records across multiple systems.

When you scale that across dozens of employees in different countries, it becomes nearly impossible to know:

• Who has access to what
• Which devices are in use, lost, or sitting idle
• Whether you’re still compliant with local regulations

Deel IT fixes this by creating a shared source of truth.

Deel IT connects your HR and IT systems into one integrated platform. That means every person, every device, and every app license stays in sync, automatically.

Here’s how it works:

• As people are hired, promoted, relocated, or offboarded, their records are updated in the HR system
• Deel instantly reflects those changes across your IT environment
• Devices, app access, and permissions are adjusted without tickets or manual oversight
• You get real-time visibility into every asset assigned to every worker, across 130 countries

The system also tracks the full lifecycle of each device, from shipping and setup to return, reuse, or secure disposal. Every update is logged and accessible in one place.

Deel integrates with more than 100 HR tools and over 20 IT platforms, so there’s no need to replace your existing systems. You simply connect what you already use, and the automation runs on top of it.

All of this efficiency doesn’t just improve workflows. It reduces spend. When you compare the total cost of traditional IT operations with Deel IT, the savings are clear.

These numbers don’t just look good on paper. They reflect real savings from streamlining operations, cutting integration overhead, and reducing waste. Deel IT helps companies scale faster without bloating their tech stack or budget.

What happens when HR and IT actually work together

Simplifying app access. Streamlining device logistics. Keeping people and assets in sync. These are not isolated wins. They form the foundation of a smarter, faster, and more secure way to run IT operations at scale.

The traditional approach, built on spreadsheets, ticket queues, and disconnected tools, cannot keep up with today’s pace of growth. It breaks down quickly when teams are global, onboarding is frequent, and compliance requirements are constantly changing.

Deel IT offers a better way forward. By connecting HR and IT in one platform, it automates the manual work that slows companies down. That means faster onboarding, fewer errors, stronger security, and more time for strategic initiatives.

Want to see how Deel IT can help your team work smarter across borders? Book a demo today.