Strategy | Kickstart 2020: The 4 big HR challenges you CAN overcome

Why not begin 2020 by channelling your New Year energy and enthusiasm into your HR strategy? We’ve identified four pressing issues facing HR managers today and have provided some ideas on how to tackle them.

Issue 1: No time for value-adding HR activity

Let’s start with the big problem for HR teams – how much time is lost on administrative tasks. That’s time that would be better spent investing in strategic or value-adding HR activity, rather than forms and data entry.

Up-to-date HR systems solve that problem. Modern solutions are flexible and intuitive and, thanks to cloud-based technology, they’re not as expensive as you or your board might think. The right software significantly reduces the admin workload with self-service functionality – which means your workforce (rather than the HR team) can update their personal information themselves as well as book their own holidays and training, for example.