July 12, 2012

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Small businesses face challenges that larger firms can take in stride. One area that can cause immeasurable headaches is human resources. Managing your staff shouldn’t be troublesome, but for firms with only a few employees there are some inevitable pitfalls.

Even “simple” tasks like managing holidays can equate to hours of extra work.  One way to circumvent laborious HR tasks is to utilize cloud computing HR solutions to manage your growing team more effectively.

Managing a growing team is a balancing act between serving individual’s needs alongside the needs of your business. Ensuring adequate productivity without the risk of high turnover rates and employee burnout is important to the long-term growth of your organization. These four human resource tools can help you and your HR staff work smarter.

1. You Mean Everyone is on Holiday?

Who’s off is one of those rather wonderfully self-explanatory tools. The cloud-based software aims to simplify tracking staff holidays via their centralized absence management system.

It’s particularly useful for firms where the owner also takes on the human resources role within the company. It also scales for larger small businesses, so that managers across different parts of the company can easily check staff capacity and manage leave requests effectively.

As a human resources coordinator or owner you can easily give staff to access calendars, which can limit duplicate requests for time off when availability is limited. You also don’t need to be onsite to manage requests, which reduces in-office time and frustration associated with staff waiting on authorization for leave.

2. Social Employee Recruitment

Recruiting new hires can be a time consuming process. For the smallest of firms making a poor decision when recruiting can present problems down the road. With unemployment rates at an all-time high there are plenty of excellent potential employees in the market. Therefore, sifting through applications can be tiresome.

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