Digital Empowerment- The Critical Innovation In HR

Digital empowerment is now critical for innovation in HR

- Chandra Sinnathamby

Human Resource (HR) teams often go through copious amounts of paperwork and manual recruitment processes; this includes dealing with the usual paces of scanning, faxing, and printing of forms and documents. On top of this, documents need to be delivered, signed by the right stakeholders, and collected back on time. These repetitive, time-consuming processes can create a negative impact on the overall employee-employer experience as all parties get bogged down. Of course, this is usually due to the extensive paperwork and slow-moving, error-prone workflows.

Digitising the document workflow is a key step towards achieving fully-digital user journeys. It replaces manual paper based processes with more streamlined digital procedures. Besides reducing risks of inaccurate data and redundancy, digital documentation allows teams to simplify internal workflows, save time and resources, and enhance efficiency of day-to-day tasks.

E-signatures come in handy in this respect: with the digitisation of paper based procedures, HR departments can expedite the employee onboarding process by easily tracking, auditing, managing, and completing contract cycles. Of course, this can be done across multiple stakeholders efficiently and, more importantly, it is manageable on any device.

These digital transformations can help HR teams eliminate the cost and frustrations of manual paper-based processes; primarily for enrolment, onboarding and servicing across the employee journey. In turn, this empowers HR teams to become more efficient and productive. This will result in them having more time to innovate and add value to business-critical tasks.

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