What is HR software?
When you first start employing people, you’ll find you have to collect and store information about them. You might just do this on bits of paper at first, or have a spreadsheet. People might just talk to you when they want to book time off, and you make a note in your calendar.
However, there’s a better and more efficient way of doing things.
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HR software can help your business thrive and save you time and energy - through completing employment related tasks for you, such as storing and organising employee data, facilitating holiday bookings and allowance, sickness tracking, timesheet completion and rota scheduling. It can also help you record notes about performance conversations, keep training records, and manage expense claims.​
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Your employees can have access to their data and can keep it up to date. You can access the data whenever you need it. And you can ensure the data is kept secure, with only authorised people accessing it. All this helps you with data protection compliance.
If you work with a HR services provider, you can give them access to the HR software, which makes it easier for them to support you more effectively and efficiently. You can also give access to your payroll provider, to reduce how much information you need to send to them in other ways.
You may be thinking this all sounds expensive, but HR software can be really affordable - particularly when you consider how you COULD be using all the time you save.
Struggling on where to start?
Breathe is affordable, quick and easy to use. It makes employment admin much easier for small businesses and it starts from just £18 per month. There also is no need to be concerned about signing up, as you get a one month trial and you have the freedom to cancel anytime with no hidden costs.
If you purchase Breathe through HR by Tara, then for just £180 we’ll configure the system for you and show you how to use it. We can then provide support for you as you use the system, ensuring that you make the most of it.
Click HERE to learn more about breathe
Other HR software options We’ve recently conducted a review of other HR software options that are suitable for small businesses and we’ll be publishing our assessments of them here in the near future.