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FOUR TIPS FOR IMPROVING YOUR ORGANIZATION’S HR COMMUNICATIONS
By Miranda Nicholson
From performance reviews to paid time off (PTO) requests,
most HR professionals understand that HR communica-tion
can be tricky. You need to collect a lot of information
from your employees (which often entails tracking down in-dividuals
and sending countless reminders), but you also need to
avoid over-communicating so you don’t clutter their inboxes with
HR emails.
Here are four tips you can use to stay organized, cut down on
administrative tasks, limit massive email communications and im-prove
HR communication overall for your business.
MAKE EMPLOYEE REQUEST FORMS
EASILY ACCESSIBLE
Excessive paperwork is a typical pain point for employees and hu-man
resources when it comes to forms like PTO requests, expense
reimbursements, office supply requests, complaint forms and oth-ers.
According to a McKinsey report, employees spend nearly two
hours per day searching for information – a tremendous loss of
productivity. One way to remedy this is to create an online em-ployee
portal that allows for all these forms to be stored in one
easy-access location. This keeps employees from having to dig
through their inbox or hunt down hard copies of forms that float
around the office, and HR professionals don’t have to worry about
tracking the progress of each form submission. It’s a streamlined
process for all.
AUTOMATE REMINDER EMAILS FOR DEADLINES
This is another instance in which an employee portal will aid in doc-ument
collection. New hires are often required to submit various
forms, copies of identification and other employee authorization
EMPLOYEES SPEND
NEARLY TWO HOURS
PER DAY SEARCHING
FOR INFORMATION –
A TREMENDOUS LOSS
OF PRODUCTIVITY.
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HRPROFESSIONALNOW.CA ❚ MAY 2017 ❚ 29
