Using Software to Lower HR Costs
With budgets and resources across a majority of industries becoming increasingly stretched, organizations are looking more and more into alternative ways of lowering costs. As a result organizations are looking at incorporating technology to increase productivity. A recent article on Mid-Market discusses how organizations can save money by using a variety of on-demand services to streamline HR functions. This article focused on the company LifeLock, who was able to use on-demand services to manage a work force of 350 employees with only two full-time HR staff.
Services such as the HR Made Simple Kit and the Getting Started Kit provide a cost effective way to move the focus of you HR functions from basic tasks to more hot button issues such as conflict resolution and employee training. The idea behind these programs is to create a user controlled environment, which keeps the costs down, and allows people with little or no HR training to develop an effective HR compliance program. It also gives experienced HR professionals the ability to take their focus off of time consuming tasks such as keeping track of constantly changing laws, creating employee handbooks and policies, putting their focus on the higher level staff issues.
In addition to the services provided by HRSentry, there are a number of other online resources that can be a valuable asset to any organization including Preventive HR (including a fantastic online job description and evaluation program), AGOS (focusing on claims and incident prevention they provide excellent desktop training modules for a variety of issues), and CompEraser (a top-notch claims management program that can significantly increase profits by staying on top of existing claims and quantifying the impact). As industries become more and more technology driven, online tools such as the ones discussed above are being relied on to take over duties that previously would have required an additional staff member.
