Cloud Based HR Software Provider WebHR Aims To Revolutionize The Way HR Works

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Below is our recent interview with Anna Naveed, Co-Founder of WebHR.co:

Q: Could you provide our readers with a brief introduction to WebHR?

A: WebHR is revolutionizing the way HR works. WebHR is a Social all-in-one Cloud based HR Software for Small & Medium Enterprises that handles everything from Hire to Retire, in the most innovate way. WebHR not only saves money to the companies, but also boosts productivity, saves space and make inter and intra-office communications fast, reliable and more efficient. WebHR assists in managing a company’s most important asset – its People.

WebHR has been signed up by more than 20,000 companies in 197 Countries.

Ranked by PC Mag as one of the best HR Software since 2015 to-date and ranked by Gartner as #1 in Global Cloud based HR Software for the year 2017 and 2018, WebHR is a shining star and the next super power of the HR World. Considered by many as the global leader in HR – WebHR is being used in several Universities all over the world as a case study for their MBA HR program.

WebHR facilitates all functions of the Human Resource Department that deals with recruitment, employees’ management, payroll, performance, training etc. In fact, WebHR can be used to simplify the daily tasks involved in the HR Department.

WebHR acts as a bridge between human resource management and information technology. It allows enterprises to automate many aspects of human resource management, with the dual benefits of reducing the workload of the HR department as well as increasing the efficiency of the department by standardizing HR processes.

Effectively managing Human Resource is a task that requires an orderly approach. Organized files, strong time management skills and personal efficiency are key ingredients of an HR department, because they deal with people’s lives and careers all the time.

WebHR converts human resources information into a digital format, allowing that information to be added to the knowledge management systems of the organization. The result of this is that HR data can be turned into useful information that can cater the needs of any other department within the organization. In analyzing organization wide resource usage this data can prove valuable. Data related to the time usage of the workforce can enhance the decision making abilities of management, allowing the HR department to form an integral aspect of strategy formation for the organization as a whole.

WebHR is destined to be a primary HR tool in the cloud.

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Q: Can you give us insights into your features?

A: Following are some of the key features of WebHR:

· Feature Rich HR Solution
· Complete Recruitment Solution
· Employees Self Service
· Extensive Leaves & Attendance Management
· Extremely User Friendly
· Performance Evaluation
· Employees Attendance / Biometrics
· Customizable Data Fields
· Effortless Payroll
· Comprehensive Reports & Graphs
· Extensive Employee Profile
· Auto Reminders
· Online Job Portal
· Documents Management
· Reports Generator
· Incredibly Cost Effective

Q: Can you give us insights into your features?

A: WebHR enables automatic processing of human resource functions, tracking and monitoring of human resource data, creation of templates, forms and customary reports. It also enables streamlining of essential data such as employee benefits and performance analysis, which in turn reduces the management cost considerably.

WebHR enables users to view and compare benefits as well as make enrollment changes. It facilitates them to update personnel information, view current and previous payroll information, and generate real-time benefit statements at the touch of a button.

Following are some of the other benefits of WebHR:

· Organizations can keep track of all of its employees, irrespective of their stations, departments or even their physical locations.
· WebHR helps in keeping track of employee’s attendance. It can integrate with any Biometrics Attendance system for seamless signing in and singing out of the office.
· WebHR keeps accurate track of organization payroll, thus reducing the work load of accounts/payroll officer.
· WebHR allows the employees to send requests directly through the system, requests such as: leaves, authorization requests, reimbursement claim request, etc can be directly processed through WebHR, thus creating a paperless work environment.
· WebHR streamlines the processes involved in the recruitment process. New job vacancies can be directly posted online on organization’s website on careers/jobs page.
· WebHR facilitates the applicants to post their resumes online. Through this approach, short-listing of the right candidates for the interview/test of vacant job becomes trouble-free.
· WebHR allows employees to update their own information (e.g. phone number, email address, home address, etc) through the web based system, rather than going through a long manual procedures.
· WebHR sends daily assignments and various other engagement reminders.
· WebHR makes it easy for the management to identify potential employees for benefits, salary increments or other incentives.
· WebHR provides comprehensive reporting to the top management about the overall performance of HR department, as well as the performance of individual employees.
· WebHR reports can be directly printed, or sent to multiple recipients by email. These reports can also export to multiple different formats such as, Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, HTML, etc.

WebHR also helps in identifying the right candidates for trainings through Training Needs Assessment component.

Q: Why is now the time for a technology solution like WebHR?

A: Large enterprises tend to burn more cash as compared to small companies, which have been wise enough to shop and hunt for cloud based solutions. The transition is slowly bringing a new wave to corporate world, which has just started to appreciate the potentials of a cloud based software. This wave enables a sense of urgency to migrate to better HR management software and upgrade the way, all of this has been perceived in the past. The enterprise world realizes that it lacks the exponential growth if it lags behind in adopting the newer methods of handling their workforce, which in turn may be lethal for their existence. The corporate structure can benefit with such reforms and cut costs as a whole, bring an ease of operation within the organization that is associated with the cloud technology.

To go completely paperless, that is the mainstay belief for cloud HR companies like WebHR. Valued a bit over $15 billion globally, human resource technology is the fastest growing tech business and is not going to slow down any time soon. This is the reason that markets around the world have seen a surge of budding new companies, solely based to upgrade the human connectivity at workplaces. An element of socially wired, well coherent teams, that build the basics of any organization. WebHR supports and pioneers all such concepts and has been the biggest advocate of such changes even before they were heard of.

Every business needs to manage employees, lure them and evaluate them in an efficient manner, so the core HR fun functionalities like hiring, on-boarding, payroll and benefit administration should be made as convenient as possible, to ensure a smooth day to day performance. Systems like ” WebHR ” are a powerful tool for any organization, no matter what the size.It has brought forth, the cutting edge technologies, pioneering innovation when the HR space was stagnant, at a rocket pace. WebHR brings an all-inclusive, social HR that does all the core functions of an HR software and much, much more in the most affordable way possible, providing room to grow for budding and established companies all the same.

The analytics-driven and agile persona of WebHR has lured the corporate world to re-think their affinity to acquire a hosted solution and move towards the cloud, making processes faster and better for their transformation. The user-friendly, social look of the tool, makes it popular, not only amongst the employees, engaging and connecting them, but also for the top management. WebHR helps them step into the future of automation, helping in making decisions based on the analytical data gathered by the software, which otherwise would cost them millions of dollars. WebHR makes it super affordable for companies to get tools like, social elements of engagement, recruitment, performance management, assessments, learning management, workplace wellness, all at one place.

The age old, under performing, under whelming, overtly hyped software, which we thought and longed for, are no more in demand and are being rapidly replaced by faster, more automated cloud software. The new wave of people-oriented software, change how the HR operates and brings a culture of inclusion, all through-out the company. This brings forward a pre-meditated strategy for everyone to be more involved and empowered. This is a recipe destined to bring success, as it provides a liberty to organizations to work over more important stuff and let the software handle, the most important asset in their company, their “employees” .

For corporate world, it is very important for the C-suite level executives to engage with all employees, to bring into alignment their investment and other strategic decisions, depicting strong leadership traits. According to the HR objectives of any said company, it is easy for them to migrate to systems such as WebHR, by evaluating their needs and then just enabling the modules they want to use, with no transfer or set up fee. The aim is to make it so convenient that any company can come on board and start using the software within a day’s time. The technically sound teams, help with the migration process and streamline their workflows in no time, with competent tech support team that works round the clock to cater to a global audience, WebHR has made HR services not just easier to use but budget friendly. It hardly takes a day or two to train the people to use it and then they are good-to-go. WebHR is also the only HR application that works with “Amazon’s” Alexa, and is moving forward rapidly towards automation and voice enabled assistants to act as HR managers and analysts for different organizations.

The futuristic approach of WebHR’s Cloud powered social HR traits, with its competitive edge, has set it apart and has positioned it globally. The key is to cut down on lengthy unnecessary steps and extensive learning, lowering down the costs for high turn-over companies, substantially reducing the time required by them to hunt, hire and bring on-board an employee, assign tasks right away, giving them a “Facebook” like dashboard to connect and engage, follow the goals, get evaluated, paid, allowed to take leaves and breaks, without actually switching screens or going through strenuous lengthy details.

WebHR’s affordable HCM suite is a big revolution in the HR world that syncs the needs of different organizations with tools available, speed processing their work flows and cutting their budgets to a minimum.

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Q: You’ve recently been named #1 at HR Category Leaders Q1 2018 On Gartner’s GetApp; could you tell us something more?

A: Gartner’s GetApp, recently published the quarterly ranking of the Top 25 HR solutions on the market, and WebHR was named #1 for not just this quarter (2018) but for all quarters of 2017 too https://web.hr

Their ranking report aims to recognize the top solutions for SMBs and is based on five unique factors: reviews, integrations, data security, mobile platforms, and media presence. There are more than 286 HR solutions listed on GetApp, so being #1 is quite the achievement!

GetApp’s quarterly ranking showcases the top 25 Human Resources (HR) apps based in the cloud. Each app is scored using five factors, worth 20 points each, for a total possible score out of 100. These factors include user reviews, integrations, mobile app availability, media presence, and security. Each app’s score is independent of commercial interests and existing relationships that GetApp has with app vendors.

Q: What are your plans for the future?

A: The coming years, would be the years of evolution and change for HR. The way we manage people has come a long way, there is an ever changing scenario, when it comes to how a company advertises, recruits, engages and evaluates employees. There was a huge gap between the corporate outlook and the way SMBs see things a few years ago, along with distinct differences between the ways to deal with their respective workers, which seem to have been merging now and the new ideology tells us that every company, large or small needs to quantify and gauge the employee experience and retain their best talent, not just recruit them.

All that glitters is not gold and not all expensive software ensure the quality of services provided. The true demographics of companies all over the world, according to a research done by the analysts at WebHR, tell us a surprising story, there is a huge demand for an All-in-One HCM suite not just for smaller companies but also larger corporations, that tend to burn a whole lot of money on software systems, that are hard to deploy, provide little value compared to the amount spent on them or have an extremely complicated learning curve. What the team at WebHR has found out is that, it doesn’t matter how pricy the software in place, if it fails at basic functionality and doesn’t provide an ease of use for the user, it becomes a burden on the company.

The next generation of software tend to be smarter, precise and more vigilant about the customer requirements, have shorter life cycles for necessary updates essential to make the workflows smoother, make more customization to cater and adjust to different workflows. The newer tools focus on customer queries, their worries and concerns and provide them support free of cost to equip them with a better understanding of the software, helping them use it at its maximum potential. The evolutionary process wants these systems to incorporate more social aspect tools, that keep the teams engaged, performing up to their mark, meet targets and then evaluated more responsibly and fairly. Companies need to make sure that their spending is justified and they get ease of using a software that covers most aspects related to HR and goes an extra mile.

The rapid innovation onset round the globe, accounts for an increased level of automation and intelligent analysis of data to bring out more productivity, that is where the team WebHR understands that AI and data analytics can be a game changer. The use of certain physical devices to extract data, without actually doing any manual work, like Amazon’s Alexa, acting as an HR manager. These are the facts that are changing the way HR looks and feels. The meetings from different ends of the world, done virtually in a conference room with just a VR headset, that works with WebHR. This is just a fraction of what the team at WebHR is planning to do in this space.

The step forward is not just all that innovation but also to meet the human end of it and improve it manifold. The evaluations, as we see it today are based on old tactics and sometimes do not turn out to be beneficial in any substantial change in an employee;s career or pathway. To bring valuable and significant change, is not to bring out a feedback that is not reflective of employees day to day activities but more directed towards an overall achievement designed to highlight those certain phases where they completed a project and showed their best capabilities, with elated sense of team spirit. If we look into the life cycles of startup, that continually go through different phases of development, their employees go from the very basic in skills set to becoming an integral part of the team, where everyone works as a cohesive and combined force, having a larger success rate of getting things done effectively. The level of persistence and organizational development depends on the level of engagement amongst the employees and the focused objectives to do better by adapting skills at work and utilizing them effectively.

Today’s employees have entered an era of competition, where people grab opportunities faster and are ready to take on career paths, that are challenging and demand a constant process of learning, with that said, finding that talent has become more convenient through tools like “WebHR”, as WebHR helps creating a brand recognition for the company and help them spread good vibes about them, putting forth their mission towards acquiring and retaining the best suitable candidates for their businesses. This not just brings out the companies as specific “brands” but also ensure that their integrity, is the main focus during the process.

The latest wave of showdowns for the leaders in the upper-most tiers of the company and their deeds being highlighted on social media, means surrounding the company culture. No company big or small, can survive on brand names alone, it is imperative to build a culture of trust and understanding as portrayed by the CEO of the company itself. Nothing stays inside a company’s board room, or no misconduct can be brushed under the carpet these days. A better management, is a connected, honest and culture reflective management. A culture where all employees have an equal opportunity to grow and get promoted to the positions they deserve. The mechanism of sharing and appreciating efforts put in by every member of the team, with very visual tokens of appreciations, like “employee of the month”, “high achievers”, badges, that make their day and boost their ego, making them feel involved and engaged at all times.

The team at WebHR has experimented and tested different ways of bringing a social aspect to HR and uplift its current role, moving it towards a platform that provides, connectivity and sense of tribe building amongst the employees. Improving the mental well-being of even the most introverted of the employees in the company by giving them a chance to mingle with all the tiers in the company. The team at WebHR has noticed that it bridges the gap between older and younger employees, creating a unique mechanism of learning, where millennials seek wisdom and advice from older, more experienced ones.

WebHR’s team has always been innovating the ways we deal with our most valuable assets ” our employees”, the team holds this notion highly, that an overall success at any company is directly related to the well-being of their employees. They are not just a tool to get a better ranking but also an essential and integral basis of how a company builds its image from the ground up and be known for that. The modern day companies want more, they want fast, effective and affordable ways of doing things and larger corporations have realized the same thing. The coming year would be the year when affordable HR tools break their way into companies of all sizes and categories. The need has been identified and the change is imminent.