An HR department is the spine of an organisation. From acquiring new talent to streamlining workflows, and making sure employees perform well, HR never ceases to be at the heart of a company’s challenges and successes. 

HR professionals play a pivotal role in recruiting and retaining talented employees, streamlining workflows, and ensuring optimal performance levels. However, many HR processes are still manual, which can be time-consuming and inefficient. That's where HR automation comes in, especially the codeless kind, which can revolutionise the way HR teams work. ✅

There have been huge shifts in human resources (HR) within the past decade. Trends continue to transform the field by steering HR departments in the right direction and prompting positive change. HR professionals played a significant part in creating frameworks for the post-pandemic workplace and easing organisations through digital transformation.

There are many HR Technologies on the market which can make it more complicated and confusing when trying the select the right HR Technology. Across the silos of HR and Employee Lifecycle management exist specific Core HR functions which are both operational and strategic. The top layer of the Employee Lifecycle is made up of Recruitment, Onboarding, Crossboarding, Offboarding, Timesheets, Rostering and Awards, Payroll, Self-Service and Core-HR. These areas could be said to be fundamental to the operation of a business and there are significant benefits from automating all of these aspects of operations so that more time can be spent on strategic initiatives or simply having less stress at work. Background Checking is also an important part of this spine. Being able to run checks as Applicants are moved through the Recruitment process is important, as is rechecking employees as checks expire.

Being nimble and dynamic in the way businesses manage skills through performance is going to be important moving forward into the next 12 months – 2023. Having the capacity to use the Skill sets of employees across multiple business silos / departments is a way to keep costs down and improve employee competencies rather than having to hire. Whether your organisation uses a formal or informal performance management approach, it’s important to capture key information and then be able to quickly query it and report on it to make decisions. In our last HR Blog we looked at how important re- or upskilling is to creating a 'Learning Culture.' In this Blog, we dive deeper into tracking skills and filling skills gaps throughout the Employee lifecycle.

LinkedIn's 2022 Workplace Learning Report makes it clear that learning is rapidly becoming a critical part of many peoples’ daily work. Producing high-quality learning experiences for Employees is just the beginning for L&D Professionals. As the nature of work continues to evolve, organisations need to ensure that their Employees have the skills needed to ride the wave of change and future-proof the organisation. When it comes to providing training for future-fit skills, (to build a sustainable workforce and a sustainable organisation), technology plays a crucial role. This week's HR Blog explores the importance of Learning and Development to organisational culture and long term business success.

Has the way your organisation does business changed recently? In some ways, that was a rhetorical question, because change is the only constant. Anyone running or working in a business knows that this decade has already brought so many changes to the way we work that many are finding it hard to keep up. Given that, the next question (not a rhetorical one this time) is - how is your business managing digital change management and transformation in the workplace? In this week's HR Blog we explore these topics through the lens of the Human Capital Management/HR Software maturity model.

Getting the right training to the right Employees at the right time is an essential part of doing business. Even more so given the changes in the way we work during the last couple of years. Subscribe-HR's latest new release is a Training Widget that enables People & Culture Managers and Employees alike to manage and complete training and e-Learning at the click of a mouse, delivered seamlessly to whichever location you're working from. If your organisation needs HR software with a sophisticated but easy to use Training Widget or Training Request Wizard, take a look at this week's HR Blog to find out more.

Every year Infoxchange hosts the Connecting Up conference in Melbourne. This year's conference is a three-day event that aims to help Australian not-for-profits get the most out of technology, training, and strategy. Subscribe-HR is the technology sponsor for Connecting Up this year. That's because we're aligned with Infoxchange on our commitment to providing the sectors they serve with the tools and business intelligence they need to thrive. An increasing proportion of our customers operate in the NFP, charity, social enterprise, Indigenous or Local Council segments because we've been ardent supporters of these businesses since we started our own. Read this week's HR Blog to find out more about this year's conference, and if you're attending, please do come along and say hello.