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  • What Software Skills do I Need to Work in HR? [Reader Question]

    What Software Skills do I Need to Work in HR? [Reader Question]

    Occasionally I get a question from a reader, such as below. If you have a question you’d like to ask here or on the podcast, please send it to questions AT upstarthr.com or record a short voice note here anonymously: http://upstarthr.com/question See other reader questions here. Today’s question is about software, tools, and technology that HR pros…

  • Office Workplace Health Risks: Computers, Screens, Sitting, and More

      In the digital world we live in, we spend a TON of time work on computers and mobile devices. Screens aren’t just part of our work life–they are how we interact with most people during the course of the workday. This isn’t a natural experience for us and it’s now how we were designed…

  • SMB to Enterprise: The HR Technology Divide (#HRTechConf)

    Recently I was interviewed by a good friend from SHRM’s Public Affairs team, Mary Kaylor. She asked me a few questions about the HR Technology Conference, and you can read it all here. What I want to expound upon here is the final question in the interview. I had to be succinct in my response…

  • Engaging Employees with Technology Choices

    Last week I had the chance to speak with a local HR leader. She was lamenting her company’s hideously awful HR module that was an add-on to the company accounting software. The firm paid plenty of money for the module, but it is ineffective, inefficient, and virtually useless. It looks like it was coded/developed in 1993,…

  • The Problem with HR Technology Integration

    Technology is everywhere in the workplace today, but one of the biggest problems for many companies is integrating the various systems they have. If you have a favorite performance management system and want that to feed into your company’s learning management system so you aren’t duplicating entries and potentially messing up data, good luck. That’s…

  • Making the HR Technology Leap

    I was talking with a friend last week about technology–specifically the kind we use in the HR, payroll, and recruiting space. His organization is using an awful tool that costs quite a bit of money. It’s not user friendly. It doesn’t make data easily accessible. And it’s become a running joke that any basic business…

  • Do This Before You Consider An HR Technology Solution

    One of the recurring conversations I had during the first day of the HR Technology Conference revolved around using HR technology tools to solve business problems. The issue with that, says Michael Rochelle, Chief Strategy Officer at Brandon Hall Group, is this: HR is a buffet of broken processes. Applying technology to a misaligned strategy, poor tool selection, or…