The top priorities for organizations remain the same irrespective of the change in the way they operate and employees work. Even though employees who worked from offices earlier are now working remotely, managing and improving workplace productivity as well as engagement has remained paramount. And now, it is more important. The lack of social interactions and leadership communication in the workplace will affect company cultureOpens a new window .
Sustaining culture is the aim with which HR company HibobOpens a new window has announced its integration with Microsoft Teams. This partnership has been forged to enable better employee productivity, inclusivity, and engagement, and ensure that company information reaches employees promptly. The challenge that remote working poses is that team bondingOpens a new window has become limited or negligible. This, in turn, will impact the culture in the long term since employees will have to work with their co-workers virtually. The offering bob HR for Teams will address this concern.
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Addressing the Remote Employee Lifecyclebob HR ensures that new employees have a seamless onboarding experience and feel connected to the rest of the team. It also provides options to celebrate the achievements of colleagues and employees who have common interests can form clubs. All these aspects are designed to provide a highly engaging virtual experience for all employees. Team engagement is a crucial part of a company’s culture and its success. This significant gap area is likely to be addressed through bob HR for Teams.
In addition to the cultural element, the platform also increases HR efficiency and eases up the pressure from tactical queries that HR teams face. There is a chatbot to answer basic and targeted questions, which means employees can find a lot of information about their teams that is relevant to their work, through this. The core offerings of this platform are collaboration and communication in the specific context of remote teamsOpens a new window . It is also designed to meet the information needs of employees across different age groups.
The integral part of this process is to demonstrate the link between the work environment and employee engagement. Most companies understand this connection but not in the context of the situation where all employees are working remotely. Mapping this link to a technology platform was essential for providing a long-term solution.
Such an approach also ensures agility in response from HR as well as leaders, additionally bringing temporary and contractual workers into its purview. The time spent by HR on administrative tasks will also reduce so that it can focus on more strategic responsibilities. The workforce will remain spread across different locations in the near future. Hence, the platform should be user-friendly, easy to access, and engaging.
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The measurement of employee engagementOpens a new window is going to remain a big challenge. The increase or decrease in this for individuals as well as teams is a difficult exercise to implement in a remote setup. But a continuous flow of information from HR and two-way dialogue can ensure that engagement levels remain high.
While several other tools focus on collaboration, such as Time Doctor, Slack, Freshconnect, and so on, they are more specific to team management for work deliverables. bob HR for Teams brings two differentiators: the clear emphasis on the end-to-end employee lifecycle, starting with onboardingOpens a new window and ending with performance managementOpens a new window , as well as the features that link collaboration to engagement. This makes it a complete single-point solution for organizations of all sizes and also makes it a comprehensive HR platform.
Currently, the tool is live for Hibob clients to download. With actual usage of the platform, the market will get a better idea of the extent to which it has fulfilled the purpose that it was designed for.