How valuable is time when managing your people?
One of the ongoing challenges for SME’s is in managing the many admin related HR tasks within the business. Often, it’s not just the range of tasks but also the time sucking, manual or ‘we’ve always done it that way’ processes using a variety of different non-integrated tech or software.
At a time when many SME’s may be carefully managing costs, making any investment must be crystal clear on how it will make a positive impact on your bottom line, and whether that impact is going to be felt in the short, mid, or longer term.
We are in the midst of a major evolution in the way that work is done, which is driven by remote and hybrid working models. These are made all that much easier with technology, cloud-based software and an acceptance that these pandemic driven changes have become more permanent for many organisations.
Automation and artificial intelligence can take the mundane and repetitive work normally performed by people, and free up their time to focus on more strategic, value-added activities within the HR sphere, such as spending time face-to-face with people in your company, driving development and retention initiatives and allowing them to create an all-round better employee experience.
Make your workplace more human-centric
The good news is that SME businesses can now take advantage of cost effective, emerging new technologies, software and automation tools to develop a competitive edge to help retain their current and attract future workers. And the investment does not have to be significant, but the results could well be. Embracing these should increase the capability to focus more on the experience of your candidates and employees, and to make the workplace itself, ironically, more human-centric.
Analysts predict that by 2025 Millennials and Post Millennials in the workforce will be 75%**. Both of these generations have grown up in the digital age where everything is just a few clicks, away. Are they really going to be content working for an organisation that doesn’t invest in technology to allow them to be their most productive?
So, in this time of transition, maximising how you engage with and what you offer to your employees in terms of their overall experience of working within and for your business is critical for both competitiveness and survival.
Introducing automation to your HR admin and processes could:
Streamline and reduce admin time
Manage holiday requests in one place
Store documents safely in the cloud
Plan appraisals and recognise achievements
Track and monitor sickness & absence
Log and manage expenses
Run insightful HR reports
Create and share new vacancies
Export payroll-ready data
Track remote working
BreatheHR is one such cloud-based HR Software which can do all these things and is designed specifically for SMEs. It takes the hard work out of managing employee data and centralises it in a simple to use system. It also means your employees have a much more streamlined way to engage with HR related admin too.
We really want our SME community to be able to experience the many benefits of this cloud-based HR Software offer. And the level of investment? From as little as £11 per month, making it a cost-effective game changer in terms of time saving and efficiency. So why not join over 8,200 UK SMEs using this tried and tested system and saving hundreds of hours of time too?