The Hiblog

Event: Microsoft Ignite reflections

As the strategic partnerships lead at Hibob, I had the privilege of being invited to speak on stage at this year’s amazing Microsoft Ignite. This event is the main frontier of innovation and tech. I spoke about our vision and how our component with Microsoft Graph Toolkit plays into that vision. Our platform, bob, was built four years ago with a mission to help fast-growing companies to attract, excite, and retain their top talent. We are moving quickly and are always looking for ways to enhance our people management solution.…

7 min read

How AI Improves Workplace Communication

Saberr has been exploring the future of work as AI starts to play a more prominent role in our day to day lives. Technology has immeasurably improved the way we work. We’re working faster, we have the opportunity to use data to make more accurate decisions and can communicate with colleagues across the globe at the touch of a button. This also means we now have the ability to get through much of our day to day lives without a single human interaction - from ordering food to hailing…

Automation: First Step Towards Supercharging Your HR with Artificial Intelligence

According to HR tech expert Soumyasanto Sen, there are three distinct phases on your HR team’s journey towards applying AI: automation, augmentation and amplification. Within my area of expertise, talent acquisition, I’d like to focus on the all-important first step. Automation provides the most opportunity for HR and talent acquisition teams today since the technology is easier to implement than machine learning or full AI. Technology can automate many processes within talent acquisition. Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of many of the most common uses of automation in…

Businesswoman standing and using mobile phone hibob

2 min read

Disengaged No More: HR Tech Creating Happier, More Productive Employees

Employee disengagement has escalated from disconcerting trend to full-blown epidemic. According to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report, nearly 70% of U.S. employees are disengaged at work. And several research studies have found a correlation between the level of employee engagement and company profits. Specifically, Dale Carnegie Training reports organizations with engaged employees outperform those with disengaged employees by 202 percent and Towers Perrin estimates that highly engaged employees boost a company’s net profit margin by 6 percent. Conversely, a recent Engagement Institute study suggests that workers who…

Having Trouble with Employee Turnover? People Analytics Can Help Your HR – and Business

There is little doubt that every business experiences its fair share of HR struggles. From the frustration to having talent leaving for another company, to the difficulty in addressing the valuable question of why it happened, businesses everywhere are looking for a solution. Anybody who has been in this situation knows that employees who leave do not only take significant value with them, but that finding a new worker requires a great deal of resources. So how can you prevent employee attrition? The key answer is a new approach to…

3 min read

Kick HR Time Wasters to the Curb

The human capital landscape is changing radically and CEOs need HR departments to be orchestrators of business strategy and innovation. According to Deloitte, the role of Human Resources is evolving rapidly to cover business-critical talent agendas, such as ‘workplace redesign, wellbeing and productivity systems’, so how can you keep up? The future is here Technology breakthroughs are tipped to be the leading catalyst for workplace change, reveals PwC’s survey, ‘The future of work: A Journey to 2022’. Amid a lot of hype about emerging technologies stealing our jobs, rest…

HR Professionals: Will AI Take Your Job?

AI will not replace HR, it will enhance it. Without getting lost on the key distinctions of AI, it can vary from decision trees, automation, right through to replicable human intelligence. A recent paper by Narrative Science shows that 62% of businesses are looking to invest in AI by 2018. AI is here to stay and the need to embrace the oncoming wave of data and automation is key to the next generation of businesses. And the key to a successful business is satisfied employees, supported by an adaptable HR…

3 min read

4 benefits of a brilliant HR system

No monkey business! Consider your business bolstered. All technology is not created equal. If yours currently feels like a clunky filing system full of old employee records, messy spreadsheets and blah blah blah, it’s time to wake up and smell the software, because it should rock your world. "A data-driven HR platform that’s built for real people will transform your organisation" A data-driven HR platform that’s built for real people will totally transform your organisation and the benefits go beyond promoting efficiency. Your whole business will be strengthened, and here’s…