Strategy | Is HR Digital Transformation Still Relevant in 2023?

Is the era of digital transformation over for HR professionals? For all the talk of digital tools and digitised practices, our research at Personio suggests that the majority of organisations in the UK are still lagging behind.

In this article, we want to talk about the realities of digital transformation in 2023. More importantly, why it should still matter for people teams and exactly how digital transformation can (and should) start in your HR department.

What Do We Mean by Digital Transformation?

Digital transformation refers to an organisation’s efforts to replace manual, paper-based practices with digitised, automated processes. The intended outcome is to increase organisational effectiveness across your entire business.

Diving deeper into the topic of transformation, we need to make a key distinction between two things: