By introducing technology into standard everyday operations, HR departments can speed up a number of the processes and operational aspects that they customarily handle, including recruitment, performance evaluations, or payroll. When appropriately selected and implemented, HR software increases productivity and improves results, freeing up HR staff to focus on cultivating workplace bonds and growing employee engagement. Today, we’re going to look at how business owners can bring technology into their HR departments.

What Is HR Technology?

HR technology describes software that aids HR departments in various tasks, such as HR data storage, analysis, and maintenance; staff recruitment and retention; payroll and salary; and administrative support. HR tech optimizes these processes by, for example, automating uniformly recognizable patterns of behavior and performing them for the employee. HR technology should have the capacity to carry out many of these functions and be accessible to all members tied to an organization: stakeholders, managers, employees, and, of course, HR personnel.

The adoption of HR tech is accelerating—by 2020, as much as 30% of middle to large enterprises “will have invested in a cloud-deployed human capital management (HCM) suite for administrative HR and talent management,” as we can read in the Gartner whitepaper.

But, despite the seemingly steady growth rate, the adoption has proven a bumpy road. To enjoy expected results, companies first have to recognize areas in HR that technology could enhance, and then overcome the specific challenges brought on by the introduction of HR tech into an organization.

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