The HR department plays an important role in remote working

When employees work from home, they don't have the same dialog and collaboration with their colleagues or management. This puts different demands on employees and how they communicate with each other.

For management, this also means that there is a need for an even better overview of employees, their tasks and their skills. To support the managers' overview, the HR department therefore plays an important role. Both at HR Solutions and HRM Nordic you will find many great tools to support managers in their work with employees.

Stay on top of things with an HR system

One of the cornerstones of a HR system is the employee database. This is where all data about all employees is gathered - including their skills, education and completed courses, as well as their work areas. In other words, you can quickly find the right employee for a given task.

The HR department has become a much more important strategic resource than before, and management should involve them in both large and small projects. The HR department typically has a greater insight into the different skills of all employees - even across departments. If a specialist is needed to solve a complicated task, HR will be able to help managers find the right person for the job.

Of course, a manager would also be able to search for employees in the HR system, but the manager typically doesn't have the same overview as an HR employee who works with the system on a daily basis.

When management and HR work closely together strategically and in planning for future tasks, the HR department will also be better able to plan for employee development. This ensures that the right employees receive the right training and education to prepare them for future challenges.

Collaboration between management and HR

Management and HR have become important partners when it comes to the company's strategic work and planning of employees, their skills and tasks. The HR department has an overview of all employees, whereas a middle manager typically only has an overview of their own department.

If a middle manager needs help from another department, that middle manager will need to reach out to the other department's middle manager to find the right person for the job. With the help of HR, you'll be able to find the right person for the job faster across departments.

In an HR system, it is possible to control the level of access for different people, so that a middle manager, for example, only has access to data about their own employees. This makes the HR department a partner for management, as the HR department typically has access to all employee data.

Especially in this day and age of remote working, it has become even more important to have an overview of your employees and their skills. There isn't the same opportunity to talk to another manager or an employee to find the right person for a task. Here, the HR department can be a time-saving link, as they will be able to point to the right and most competent employee for the defined task.

Get an overview with HRM-Nordic

HRM-Nordic is a modular HR system that helps you create an overview of your employees, streamline the recruitment process, structure MAS and SDD interviews and much more. HRM-Nordic can also be integrated with many other systems, which facilitates the data flow between the company's various systems and HRM-Nordic.

If you're not sure whether HRM-Nordic can help your company create an overview of your employees, you can try it for free and without obligation - sign up here. We'll help you get started within 24 hours on weekdays.

If you want to know more about how HRM-Nordic can help your company plan and assign tasks to employees at their various home offices, please contact us by phone 70 26 32 25 or send an email to info@hrsolutions.dk.