Problems rain on businesses every day. But, COVID -19 is one of those problems that no business anticipated and most of all, no one knows “when it would end”. The normal may take time to come back. Till then we need to adjust with the new normal. We need to find a way to work with the pandemic. These businesses need to strengthen their “internal management”. This is only possible using the Human Resource Management System or HRMS.

An HR of the organization keeps every department together and working. They are one of the most important role players. But with the pandemic out in the open, it gets hard for the HR department to manage. Which is why every business today needs an HRMS.

1. Strong Internal Communication
HR managers can keep employees informed about each and everything through announcements in HRMS. Instead of emailing each and every employee, it is best to post an announcement. This way if you have thousands of employees it saves you the trouble of making sure that the email reaches each and every one of them.

2. Leave Management
In the time where COVID – 19 is a serious health hazard. Many organizations are giving their employees the benefit of paid leave. A human resource management system allows you to manage all types of leaves. Again helping HR managers to easily ditch the manual methods of making leave entries at the same time allowing supervisors to deal with their subordinate’s leaves.

3. Attendance Management
Since everyone is working remotely. Attendance automatically comes down in the picture. Instead of employees managing their attendance with HR managers and their respective supervisors through Emails, it simply makes sense to have a system that allows you to manage their attendance. Imagine having to deal with 100’s of emails concerning the attendance of your team and you have no clue about their status. With an HRMS, managers can have attendance request at a place sorted according to their respective status.

4. Centralized Storage
All the data you require is stored in a centralized database. This includes the structure, basic information of all your employees like name, designation, phone numbers, email addresses, addresses, etc. Saves organization tons of paperwork.

5. Employee Life Cycle
Right from attracting a candidate to recruiting to onboarding to retention to separation is managed by an HR. An HRMS system helps you keep track of these things.

To cut down to the chase, the pandemic has made it difficult for every business to stay in touch with their employees. In times like these switching to advanced HRMS solutions can help the HR department to keep the employees connected to its company and at the same time maintain productivity even when everyone is working remotely.