An HR mobile app empowers your employees to answer their own questions. Instead of pestering you with everyday requests, employees can view and request time off, goals, documents etc. To improve staff productivity and enhance customer satisfaction, most organizations have started to adopt mobile strategy into their business plan.
Work can happen any time, anywhere. With a mobile app, employees gain instant access to all the information they need to get their job done, even when they aren’t in the office.
This article addresses the five features and benefits of Self-Serve HR mobile application; we consider is advantages to enterprises.
1. ‘Absence Request’ Speeds Up the Approval Process
Enabling ‘Absence request’ feature, managers are able to view employee leave request and process it from any mobile device. Employees can also view full details of their leaves & apply for leave which is directly delivered to the manager for approval. With ‘push notification’ supported for this feature, allows managers to process pending requests instantly.
2. ‘Team Calendar’ Improves Collaboration
Enabling ‘Team Calendar” feature in the mobile application allows managers and co-workers to view other employees’ leave request. Full visibility into team’s absence, helps team collaboration and resource planning for any project.
3. ‘Employee Profile’ Management Provides Flexibility & Convenience
Ability to manage self-profile, contact details, qualification, competencies and other critical data from mobile from anywhere, at anytime provides flexibility and convenience to all employees. This helps HR to keep record of latest employee details.
4. ‘Employee Directory’ Enhances Employee Communication
Many times employees would need their co-workers’ contact details. Enabling ‘employee directory’ with search functionality and parameters such as phone number, address, email ID, designation, location, supervisor, emergency contact etc. provides faster communication with the other person. The ability to ‘Star’ commonly used contacts will be a value-added feature.
5. Quick Access to ‘Payslip’ Improves Employee Satisfaction
In most organizations, employee payslip is the most common request received by the HR team. Ability to view and download the payslips from the mobile device provides convenience to employees and saves time for the HR team.