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The Role of Technology in Human Resources

Technology has revolutionized the uncountable aspects of the modern generation’s lives, and S&K - HR services in Dubai (HR) is no exception, whether we talk about recruitment, keeping up with the training and performance of the employees or even the various collaborative projects, technology is everywhere giving rise to HR professionals to work more efficiently and effectively. In this blog post, we will talk about some of the impactful keyways and ways HR professionals can leverage them to their advantage.

The Role of Technology in Human Resources

Recruitment

Technology has made recruitment easier and faster than ever before, all HRs have to do in current times is visit online platforms, like Facebook and LinkedIn, and HR professionals can reach out to a wide variety of candidates coming from various backgrounds, screen them more accurately, and match them with the best opportunities.

The Advantages of Technology

  • Makes the procedure take less time and gives fairer results for HR and candidates.
  • Helps HR hire more diverse and inclusive talent.
  • Improves the candidate experience with increased interaction.

Challenges and Risks

Technology can:

  • Compromise or put at risk candidates’ privacy and data security.
  • Create ethical and legal dilemmas about algorithmic fairness and transparency.
  • Weaken the crucial human trust between HR and candidates.

Retention

Technology like cloud computing, mobile devices, and analytics allows HR professionals to not only manage their employees but also monitor performance and bring progressive improvements in their experience, satisfaction, and loyalty.

Benefits of Technology

Technology can:

  • Give employees more feedback, recognition, rewards, learning, and innovation because of engagement.
  • Allow more flexibility, collaboration, efficiency, and well-being resulting in an increase in employee productivity.
  • Enhance employee retention by providing them more growth, development, career, and satisfaction.

Challenges and Risks

  • An employee’s private data or information could leak or get hacked, creating a culture of fear and distrust.
  • Technology can give rise to employee isolation and disconnection, negatively affecting the employee's well-being and belonging, eventually showing a regressive performance in terms of social and emotional support.
  • Technology requires clear employee skills and competencies, creating skill gaps, mismatches, and incidence of underconfident candidates needing training and reskilling.

Conclusion

Technology has revolutionized HR, so it is time that HR professionals also adapt and embrace the numerous advantages of technology for HR, and that’s not it! They also need to acknowledge the many risks that come with it. In conclusion, a top HR consultancy in Dubai needs to equilibrium the use of technology to ensure that technology serves the best interests of both the organization and the working staff.

 

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