📲 How Mobile Apps can Help HR

The rapid growth in mobile applications has created a buzz in the world. Thousands of work-related apps are being uploaded in the app stores, each performing distinct functionalities. Needless to say, these kinds of apps have helped businesses to grow exponentially.

Software platform development is a fast-growing industry, as demand increases all over the world. This is why app developers tend to seek out more and more new ideas to enhance app designs and create their own niche in the market.

I’m sure you can find an app on the app stores for everything. Nowadays, companies face an increasingly competitive and more complex environment to conduct their business with high efficiency. Not only do they need to build apps for their own products/services, but they also need third-party apps for their internal processes. This includes HR processes, which can be overwhelming based on the sheer volume of work and the sizes of companies.

HR plays a vital role in the success of a company.

Core Functions Of HR

HR (Human Resources) professionals carry out a massive spectrum of responsibilities within an organisational structure, including but not limited to:

Recruiting

Recruiting includes the preliminary employment work of HR: talent acquisition, meaning hiring new employees. HR can conduct interviews and terminate employee contracts as they see fit for the company (depending on the company’s budget, reporting structure and labour policies).

HR Staffing activities involve:

• Finding and achieving talent requirements, primarily through recruitment.
• Using many recruitment technologies to make connections and acquire a vast number of applicants.
• Terminating contracts when required.
• Preserving professional hiring practices and aligning with the regulatory atmosphere.
• Writing employee contracts and negotiating salary benefits.

Development

Additionally, HR professionals hire skilled, devoted employees who are open to growth. Therefore, HR is also responsible for training new employees and preparing them for their roles in the organisation. New employees need to stay engaged at work, have growth opportunities & receive feedback on their performance in order to keep them motivated.

Compensation

HR can make decisions about salary and benefits for employees, considering their roles and performance at the company. Likewise, they set the compensation levels to match the labour market or sometimes adjust it slightly higher in order to attract more skilled or experienced employees.

In addition, HR takes notice of dedicated employees and incentivise them accordingly. Further, HR discusses and settles health insurance rates, retirement plans, and similar services by other third-party providers.

Safety and Health

HR professionals conduct safety and health activities that concern employees. Security and compliance with relevant government departments & workers’ unions also falls in this category. In addition, HR keeps up to date with ongoing changes in safety protocols or labour law, and any training that’s needed to equip employees.

Employee and Labor Relations

HR professionals protect and defend employee rights within their organisation. Aligning with unions and acting as negotiators in disagreements between employees and the employer is key to the HR role. HR managers discuss employees’ rights with union stakeholders and company management, and works to ensure an equitable outcome for all parties concerned.

How is HR using mobile phones and why?

Seemingly, nowadays, mobile devices with practical applications can assist HR in many ways. That includes payroll services, recruiting/talent acquisition, performance management systems, employee engagement and learning & development.

Moreover, communication between HR, management & employees is increasingly taking place via their mobile phones, which means organisational-related tasks can be performed easily from any location.

When HR uses mobile phones to perform their duties it can lead to:

• Improved HR engagement.
• Quicker access to valuable data for faster, more informed decision making.
• More reach & quicker response times through mobile recruiting strategies.

Above all, mobile platforms enable HR to do company-related work offsite and online, which frees them up from being bound to the office space. The added features in mobile apps also means that HR can get notified about potential issues or changes as they happen. Even though not all employees are computer-facing, most employees have access to smartphones and the internet.

Currently, HR managers can access more data than ever before to make appropriate decisions using HR-related apps.

Conclusion

There are plenty of apps that can serve the HR function in companies, which will help to simplify HR processes and improve employee engagement.

About the author

Hamza Iqbal — Digital Content Producer for the software development company. He develops and implements content strategies for Cubix, along with aligning business goals with content marketing activities. He actively contributes articles related to digital and content marketing.