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An HRIS (Human Resource Information System) is a software solution that improves core HR functions and facilitates storing and managing employee data in a centralized database.
HR software helps HR teams organize and edit employee information quickly and securely. Still, its potential can go far beyond, enabling data analysis and facilitating data-driven decision-making, automating HR processes, boosting company culture and values, and simplifying performance management.
HR software offers different features, pricing, and customization options, so HR managers must ensure they choose the right HR software for their organization. While many variables are at play in this decision, the first step is to answer why you should have an HRIS in the first place.
Here are ten reasons to convince you.
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Saves time and money
Easier access to data entry and editing translates into HR teams being able to cut down on time spent on employee data management. This frees resources that your HR department can allocate to further optimize their work efficiency or focus on hiring the best talent, increasing retention, and cutting costs.
Moreover, analyzing HR data results in the following:
- More effective processes
- Increased productivity
- Improved workplace policies
- Lower costs of operation
Streamlines automation and scaling
Spending too much time on admin tasks, rather than people strategy and long-term development, can also have negative long-term consequences, as company culture and employee satisfaction are put on the back burner. Well-designed HR software will help your organization automate and simplify processes while ensuring they are built to scale quickly when needed.
Examples of streamlined processes include:
- Instant global payroll
- Benefits administration
- Equipment management
Makes global compliance easy
Complexities of rapid expansion are not just limited to increased paperwork. As companies increasingly adopt global hiring compliance with local labor laws and employment-related legal requirements become crucial.
Regulations around employee contracts, part-time employee holiday pay, or contractor benefits can vary drastically between countries, markets, and company classifications. A good HR software solution should provide global support for all types of workers, As mistakes in global compliance matters can be very costly.
HR software will help you:
- Securely manage candidate applications and resumes throughout the recruitment pipeline
- Ensure contracts are legal and compliant
- Guarantee mandatory benefits are provided
- Safeguard employee data in accordance with regulations like GDPR, PIPEDA, or CPRA
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Helps you make data-driven decisions
HR teams manage and process increasingly large amounts of data. As we saw above, HR software can help streamline and simplify the effort that goes into data management, but that’s not all it can do. Data analytics and visualization features built into your HR software can help you transition to data-driven decision-making, even regarding people strategy and operations.
Effective employee data analysis can help:
- Increase and maintain diversity in the workplace
- Identify low engagement across teams or departments
- Monitor and reduce cost per hire
- Calculate the cost of low retention
- Identify opportunities for process improvement
Solid HR software should not only offer the option to store data, but analyze and visualize it as well. The option to create dashboards and reports to monitor KPI metrics and goal achievements is one of the most essential features that will help you leverage your people data into actionable strategies.
Creates a globally consistent experience
A significant role in global brands’ success is their ability to provide a consistent experience. This is true for customers, partners, and suppliers, but it’s equally true for employees.
A consistent brand and employee experience, wherever you are active, can be a great tool to ensure you:
- Hire the right people
- Build a structure that shares values and goals
- Shape an organization that can adapt and scale rapidly
Keeps employee data safe
Most of the data HR teams process is sensitive data that should be handled with care towards privacy and proper treatment. This is not only an ethical requirement. Mishandling personal data can carry severe penalties and legal consequences, so a global company must manage employee data securely.
When looking at data security in your HR software, make sure it has the following features:
- Top-notch security features
- Sufficient storage space for your current and future needs
- Regular support to ensure security is always up to date
- Customizable access management to guarantee safe access to data
Reduces human error
Automation and process optimization don’t just improve resource management and efficiency. They can also significantly reduce human error, which is all too common when manually processing large amounts of data.
Common errors that can be reduced or eliminated include:
- Typos and misspellings
- Misplaced files
- Data loss or corruption
Improves onboarding processes
Effective onboarding is crucial to the success of any growing organization. This becomes even more true in distributed work environments, where remote work and asynchronous communication can mean that onboarding new employees is one of the few moments available to communicate important policies, expectations, and cultural values.
With the right HR software, you will be able to:
- Create standardized onboarding and offboarding processes
- Make networking easier for new hires
- Introduce onboarding cohorts
- Cut onboarding time
You can even boost the effectiveness of onboarding by combining profiles and org charts. This will create a navigable map of the organization’s layout that clarifies team structures and reporting relationships. At the same time, easily accessible contact information will make getting in touch with specific people easy.
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Elevates employee experience
Many of the reasons to have an HRIS we mentioned above already hint at how these tools can help improve the employee experience, but there is more.
Managing multiple platforms, accounts, and UI (user interfaces) to be able to access their contract, request PTO (paid time off), complete a performance review, or perform other HR-related tasks, can negatively impact employee engagement. By providing all HR functions and employee data in one easy-to-navigate platform, companies can ensure a positive and streamlined employee experience.
The keyword here is employee self-service capability. The benefits of giving employees direct access to their data include:
- Cutting the number of requests to HR
- Reducing HR data entry work
- Giving employees real-time access to documents
- Increasing transparency
Improves company culture
Company culture is complex, and while no tool can ensure a positive company culture is truly embraced and promoted, HR software can go a long way in helping you build and foster a company culture that promotes the values your organization is built upon.
You can help foster a great company culture by leveraging your HR software to achieve:
- Faster HR task management
- More transparent communication
- Better employee data insights
- Easier networking
- More accessible documentation
Start building your HRIS with Deel
Building effective and productive HR processes starts with choosing the best and most versatile tools. Deel’s experience with global hiring and compliance, as well as people management and HR, has helped shape HR software with all the core elements you need to take your people processes to the next level.
From features that ensure your hiring processes are legally compliant to tools that help boost company culture and foster a workplace that values diversity and open communication, from Slack-based PTO management to virtual watercoolers, Deel has your needs covered!
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