{"id":7375,"date":"2020-05-19T11:13:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T09:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cbs-consulting.com\/hr-goes-digital-get-fit-for-the-future-by-digitizing-your-routine\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:39:30","slug":"hr-goes-digital-get-fit-for-the-future-by-digitizing-your-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cbs-consulting.com\/us\/hr-goes-digital-get-fit-for-the-future-by-digitizing-your-routine\/","title":{"rendered":"HR Goes Digital: Get Fit for the Future by Digitizing your Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Digitalization is setting new standards in efficiency and thinking. It is something that HR can and should take advantage of today because, by digitizing routine activities, we give ourselves the creative freedom to take on future tasks.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

If I had to decide on a career again today, HR would still be high on the list, given its importance in determining the future viability of today\u2019s companies.
\nThe world of work is changing as a result of digital transformation. As this advances, people today already require different qualifications than in the past. Employees have to be more creative, more communicative, and more team-oriented than only a decade ago. We integrate machines and artificial intelligence into our work processes and we design multi-national business processes. We HR professionals have two important tasks: to prepare an aging workforce for these changes and to make our jobs attractive to young \u2018high potentials\u2019. Unlike times gone by, candidates today want to be wooed with a working environment that is attractive to them.<\/p>\n

Excel lists and printed e-mails<\/h3>\n

For all these future tasks, personnel need a degree of freedom. Digitalization could provide us with exactly that, and the daily routine blights many creative approaches. But in the field of HR \u2013 without passing any judgment \u2013 digitalization has not really arrived yet. Of course, every HR manager today has a personal laptop. But instead of the widespread digitization of routine administrative activities, one medium has replaced the other. Instead of filling out paper forms, employees now send e-mail notification of an absence. Colleagues in subsidiaries send HR data in Excel lists. This creates more work rather than less. Added to the documents piling up on desks, we now also have overflowing e-mail inboxes. The HR representative usually prints these out and enters the data into the system manually.<\/p>\n