Top 5 Key Features Required In Every HR Software.

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Mar 11, 2019
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Are you searching for HR software? Are you wondering what to enlist in a checklist as the primary or requirement? There are thousands of software available with numerous functionalities. You may need or may not need them all. Also one has to keep in mind the investment company is ready to make in the software. The functionalities the HR software is providing must be contributing to the growth of the company and reduce the work burden of HR. This article enlists such features which are the absolute requirement of most companies.   

  

OnBoarding


It is a train of processes with a lot of delays due to communication failure and lesser knowledge of employee's various details. HR fill up the particulars manually in sheets including personal information, modifies the mistakes, authenticate the details with the document submitted and more. It becomes more complicated and time-consuming when frequently more employees are on-boarded. Will your HR be able to do other tasks productively with this workload? No. Automating this process with HR and Payroll Software would eliminate a lot of the workload. Onboarding your employees with employee self-service will enable them to enter their professional and personal details as per their knowledge eliminating the numerous possible errors. In the OnBoarding module itself, they can attach various documents required for the verification of the specified information. It is one of the essential features as it reduces the HR’s workload and empowers the company to use their potential at its most for the talent acquisition and development purposes.


Payroll management


Payroll management is an essential process for all organization devoid of its size. It is one of the most complex processes where errors are unaffordable. The organization has to configure the deduction as per the timely modifications in the statutory compliance. Every organization wants to process the employee's payroll on time, but it seems to be difficult without automation and integration with other modules like leave an attendance, and performance. They have to process the data in each module, and they link it with the other module increasing the probabilities of human errors. But with HR software this task is narrowed down to just a fewer click and has reduced the errors drastically. Implementing an HR and Payroll Software will help the employer to build a satisfied and happy employee base in their organization.


Leave and attendance management


We are all aware of the manual attendance and Leave tasks starting from the on-paper application to emails and currently form the software and also the delay in between the approval flow. There was no surety back then that the application has reached to the appropriate person. Mails were ascertained to be an inefficient medium for such applications. HR software in such scenarios became the ease that everyone wished. It makes the process flawless, and the employee gets readily aware of the current status of their application. It enables them to keep the back up of the past leave or attendance application. All the managers in the defined approval flow can get efficient approve or reject the request. Integrating these modules can optimize payroll calculation.   


Performance management


An organization always wants to appreciate the employee who is putting maximum efforts for a worthy contribution in a project. Performance management is one of the most appropriate ways to determine the participation of the employees in a project. The honest intention of performance management is to increase their productivity and let them know their potential. The manager can recognize the underperformers and the need for training to improve their performance. The company can also integrate this with the payroll module to reward the employees with a useful contribution with appraisals.


Advanced monitoring


A company with the on-field employees has always found it difficult to ensure that the information employees are providing is correct. There are numerous chances where the employee lies about on-field location and activities. GPS based monitoring is the solution to it. Many software's are available for providing this facility today. Vendors offer the Android and iOS application to enable this facility. The employer can track their on-field employees with this application and can allow them to “Punch In” or “Punch Out” from the mobile device this feature is known as Geo Marking. They can Punch In from the mobile device in the unavailability of the internet with just registering the device and even without signing into the mobile application. The employer can know the route of the employee along with the starting, ending, intermediate and current locations with Geo Tracking feature. The employer can define the path for the employees and can make modifications in the current route. The employee can establish a virtual perimeter around the premises with the Geo-Fencing feature to restrict them to punch outside that perimeter.

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Vijayshree G.
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To Add some more in Hr Software
Centralized Employee Database.
Automated Time Off.
Employee Self-Service.
HR Reporting.
Applicant Management.

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