Recruitment is an increasingly big data process. However, we're constantly surprised when we hear reports, such as those that Software Advice shared with us in our recent Payroll tech trends Blog, about the continued reliance on Excel amongst HR Professionals. According to their study many HR Professionals are still recruiting for candidates with advanced Excel skills. This implies that many organisations are still running their HR procedures and processes off spreadsheets. Not only is this inefficient, but it really isn't cost effective at all. Many organisations still believe that the price of HR software is prohibitive, however, given the changes that Cloud technology has enabled in the HR software space, when you look at the numbers, it's actually more costly to your organisation to not be using a Cloud based, SaaS solution to enhance the performance of your HR team.

At the end of last year, we looked at the hottest predicted HR tech trends for 2015. Something that didn’t make that list, but is definitely a big part of the future of HR from a tech-oriented perspective, is Payroll software experience. 

Software Advice, an online Payroll software comparison site, recently published an insightful report on Tech Experience for Payroll Positions, covering Payroll recruitment activity and trends in the USA, UK and Australia.

It's that time of year when we all pause, look back, and reflect on what's passed in the last 12 months. What a year it's been for us here at Subscribe-HR - with solution upgrades, multiple releases of new functionality and the ever quickening pace of technological evolution, we're wondering where the year actually went!

Subscribe-HR would like to take the opportunity to say thank you to all you wonderful readers out there who have followed us throughout 2014. We wish a very happy Christmas to both you and your families. We would also like to pause and offer deep gratitude for all that we have been blessed to experience throughout the year. For those readers scattered far and wide around the globe who do not celebrate Christmas, or follow the Gregorian calendar, we also thank you for all the times your eyes have graced the pages of our Blog and website this year.

Earlier this week we explored the first 5 hot trends from Bersin's research about to top 10 disruptions to watch in HR technology for 2015. Now let's look at the final 5 so that you can get your head around the HR software of the future. Discover how technology can and will enable better engagement, more intuitive assessment and understanding of employees, and more synchronised alignment between an organisation and its employees. 

The HR technology landscape is on fire with new growth and innovation. In this final Blog series before the silly season kicks into high gear, we've brought you an overview of the latest from industry leaders about HR technology trends in 2015. Bersin by Deloitte offers extensive research in this space, and their latest report on the trends in HR technology for 2015 outlines what’s hot for the coming year and beyond. 

Here’s the bottom line about the best organisations; according to Gallup, those brands who deeply integrate employee engagement into their everyday business procedures, processes, strategies and activities, outperform, outshine and are generally leaps and bounds ahead of those that don’t.

Leaders incorporate employee engagement into their organisation in the following four ways without fail, and Gallup believes that it is these things that give such organisations their edge.

If you've had a look around our website recently, you will have noticed that the Subscribe-HR website has grown. Technology evolves pretty quickly these days, and as a technology company, we need to be able to keep pace with how tech changes, not just for our customers, but also in our own back yard. Our new website is part of an evolution we've undertaken to stretch ourselves beyond what has gone before, by creating an image more aligned with who we are as an organisation as we evolve and change.