How to Convince Your Bosses to Digitalise HR at Your Company

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April 7, 2022
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By
Nicholas K

For many smaller companies, HR departments can be very, very small — or even be made up of a single, solo practitioner (if this is you, click here for some vital tips!). Try as you might, it’s common for us to see small HR teams get overwhelmed with the sheer amount of paperwork on a daily basis, often preventing them from thinking of bigger picture stuff when it comes to managing the workforce in 2022. 

To help with this, it has become clear that digital transformation is no longer just a luxury, but a necessity when it comes to HR. In fact, digitalisation is crucial to the success of any company in today’s digital era, particularly as we manage digital workforces, hybrid teams, and the increasing demands of the endemic phase.  

But we’ve also heard that many of you might experience a not-so-small problem: your boss is refusing to digitalise HR at your company. What now? To get you started, here are a couple of key pointers that you should share with your company’s management in order to explain the importance of digitalising your HR. 

Conduct an HR gap analysis on your business

The first thing that you’ll want to do is to conduct a gap analysis of your company’s HR. This is essentially a process where you’ll assess the competencies and capabilities of your entire workforce, skill sets, and whether the organisation is best-equipped to achieve their HR goals for 2022 and beyond

This also includes a review of your existing HR departments and technologies — which is where you’ll need to consider the technologies or systems that your company may rely on for day-to-day tasks such as leave management, and other HR-related processes. If your company hasn’t yet, this is a key area of digitalisation that requires upgrades and updates on a regular basis. 

Once you’ve identified the tell-tale signs of outdated HR systems in your organisation, include them in any discussions with your management team in order to emphasise the importance of digitalising your HR. 

Find out more about an HR gap analysis here.

The importance of building Digital Resilience

As we all know, the pandemic has arguably accelerated the onset of the digital workforce. In today’s world, the workplace is an increasingly flexible concept, with modern work models such as remote work, flexible hours, or hybrid arrangements becoming a fixture in the modern workplace. 

This also means that HR digitalisation is crucial in ensuring that the business is prepared for any potential challenges that may arise in the future. Here are a couple of key elements of future-proofing your organisation’s HR: 

  • Fully digitalised human resources 
  • Updated priority on privacy & security 
  • Upskilled employees
  • Modernised supply chains 
  • Employee-centric initiatives

Once you’ve managed to build a compelling argument based on the above, you should start by choosing the right HRMS to aide in your company’s digital transformation journey — after all, a company’s biggest asset is its people.

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Digitalising your company’s HR with Digi’s super app, altHR

Our long-term aim here at altHR is to enable Malaysian businesses to be awesome at doing what they do with Digi’s super app, altHR. 

Manually keeping track of HR processes like leave entitlements and even performance reviews for employees can be a challenging process for employers and HR professionals — but it doesn’t have to be. 

altHR can help with this. The Leaves module (one of the most popular features on the app) is a comprehensive tool that helps to keep track of your employees leave allocations, requests, and policies. 

You’ll even be able to handle the more complex aspects of leave policies, such as the different entitlements for different groups of employees based on tenure with the company, marital status, levels, carry-forward balances, replacement leave policy, and even leave reports. There are even options for automatic carry-forward leave balances, or custom limits you can set. 

And of course, all of that works seamlessly with the other modules in the new normal, such as Highlights, Documents and Expenses. 

HR professionals are often faced with daunting, often tedious tasks on a daily basis — tasks that have become even more difficult to handle in light of the ongoing COVID-19 situation. 

But help is available, if you know where to look. Let us streamline your HR processes by managing and automating day-to-day tasks, so you won’t have to worry about things like paperwork, privacy concerns, time-tracking, or onboarding challenges.

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