{"id":560,"date":"2020-11-07T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sage-people-scraping.local\/?post_type=sage_glossary&p=560"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:34:02","slug":"what-is-hr-digital-transformation","status":"publish","type":"sage_glossary","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/glossary\/what-is-hr-digital-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"What is HR digital transformation?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t
\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlossary definition<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat is HR digital transformation?\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t
\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t min read<\/span>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

This transition is part of an overall move in many organisations from HR to People, in People Companies<\/a> that know the critical importance of investing in their people and attracting and retaining the best, to drive business growth and success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People Companies and their People Marketing teams have moved from working on manual policies and processes that deliver little strategic value to an insight-led, digitally enabled team that generates strong strategic value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Survey data shows that 94% of HR leaders intend to complete this transition in the next three to five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key characteristics of a digitally transformed HR or People function include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having a single system of record and fully automated HR processes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Many organisations have invested in leading HRMS<\/a> technology to provide this capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using analytics, these organisations are able to make data-driven People decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re able to access data and insights whenever they need them, to respond to continually changing business, workforce and market conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harnessing sophisticated digital analytics to drive HR decision-making<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not just about collecting data and reporting it. It means analysing it and finding solutions from it by modelling future scenarios and testing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inviting and acting on employee feedback<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In Transformational HR, the ability to continually gather and monitor performance data and employee opinions using digital tools is key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulse surveys, delivered on mobile devices, help People Companies to stay in touch with employee sentiment and reactions to initiatives and to understand how they can further improve employee experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enabling self-service<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Make it easy for employees to manage their own records, preferences and admin. Provide information on demand through digital apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Automate onboarding and induction so new employees feel included and valued, and can hit the ground running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This helps attract and retain talented employees and enables them to contribute their skills fully and creatively.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n\t
\n\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

Subscribe to the Sage Advice newsletter<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Join more than 500,000 UK readers and get the best business admin strategies and tactics, as well as actionable advice to help your company thrive, in your inbox every month.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Digital transformation in HR means using technology to automate routine admin and processing. It means marshalling employee and workplace data in one database to create a single source of HR truth, then using powerful analytics tools to reveal insights and trends that can help shape the future workforce experience. This transition is part of an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1660,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_sage_video":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-560","sage_glossary","type-sage_glossary","status-publish","hentry","tag-hr-process"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Sage Advice UK","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/sage_glossary\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/sage_glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/sage_glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/sage_glossary\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}