No longer is it an era where employers have multiple expectation from their employees, while the employees stay dependent. The tables have turned, employee expectations have increased than ever before. Utilising technology like cloud based hris for instance, to enable this has become a must-have. Every day new HR technology is launched to create an efficient work environment that would assist in attracting and retaining top talent within the organisation. This means the everyday work needs to be given a thought. The organisation needs to sit back and reimagine and redesign work, in a way that the HR technology will influence how one works in real time through better visibility across the organisation. This not only includes the elimination of manual work and repetitive tasks but also aims at enhancing collaboration across teams within the organisation.
Almost every aspects of HR are bound to change with the technology transformation. But let's have a look at the most talked about changes within the HR circle.
Continuous Performance Management
At present, we see the entire performance management cycle being digitalised using cloud based HR solutions. From ratings, to feedback from every corner, recording your goals, measuring the team's performance and redefining the decision making process, it's all covered.
But what does the future hold?
Prep yourselves up for prepopulated development plans, role based personality assessments and annual performance, team management tools, gamification, resources for difficult conversations all integrated with your everyday work.
Social Talent Acquisition
The war for talent just keeps getting tougher and tougher, making recruitment and talent acquisition HR's biggest nightmare. This includes finding the right talent, getting your employer branding on point and application management.
But the future of recruitment seems brighter. The base of any recruitment tool is bound to be connected with candidate experience together with relationship management technology. The future of recruitment is all about creating that mind blowing first impression. The use of artificial reality wearables provide the potential employee with experiences such as office and factory visits which would help absorb the cultural elements of the organisation as well. Technology has the ability to assess the potentials not only by their past and current behaviors, but also predict the success of future roles all the way up to their retirement. This is just the beginning, all your childhood fantasies are about to come alive with driverless cars to pick up candidates for interviews to avatars that support onboarding.
People Analytics
The rise of people analytics has taken the world of HR by storm. The transition from data warehouses to advanced analytics has paved the way for multiple reporting dashboards and predictive models.
This is just the beginning. In the upcoming years, email and communication patterns would be analysed using analytics that is incorporated with cognitive processing and natural language systems. It is said that these patterns could be used to predict employee behavior, match it with performance to succession. Hence this facilitates to identify potential safety issues and security breaches.
