Here are the latest insights fresh from our HUG 2024 keynote ?

At Personio, we understand that people are at the heart of every organization. When listening to HR leaders over the years, I always hear a consistent message: they want to help people succeed, develop and drive impact in their organizations. These are the reasons they chose to make a career in HR.?

Sadly, for many HR leaders, these are not the goals they find themselves working towards. Instead, their days are filled with manual busy work, juggling inflexible tools and struggling to understand even basic people trends. These are not the reasons they wanted to be in HR and at Personio, we are determined to change that.

During our annual HUG conference in Munich today, I was proud to showcase our Intelligent HR Platform and how it helps HR teams get back to why they entered HR, to focus on people.

The Intelligent HR Platform achieves this in three ways:

• Smart Automations analyze how you work, detecting areas to automate and suggest workflows and best practices relevant to your organization.
• Dynamic Adaptability takes customization to the next level with highly advanced access permissions and ability to add people workflows as you need them.
• Proactive Insights go beyond standard HR reporting by monitoring trends in your people data and notifying you so you have time to address issues.

Let's explore each of these a bit more!

?? Smart Automations to guide you in your work?

With Smart Automations, we wanted to go further than just digitizing manual tasks by first actually understanding how you work and your specific processes. This allows us to detect repetitive, low-value tasks that you are performing often and then suggest workflows that you can automate.

As an example, Smart Automations are able to monitor your inbox and detect tasks that are time sensitive requiring immediate attention. Rather than have you go through your inbox one message at a time, we’ll recommend which tasks to tackle first, automating your workflow.

If you don’t know where to get started on your automation journey, our platform also provides workflow templates based on industry best practices. These include popular workflows like setting up absence policies for global locations, work anniversaries and more.

“I am blown away by the digital documents that allow digital work contracts to be automatically filled out using the saved profiles and then signed digitally."

— Robin Seidel-Doetsch , Head of HR at interaktiv . Perspektiven

Some exciting new features we announced today include location-based time tracking, automated approvals, and some cool mobile enhancements.

?? Dynamic Adaptability responds to your unique needs

While working with thousands of customers over the years, we’ve learned that no two organizations set up their people workflows in exactly the same way.

With Dynamic Adaptability, we wanted to offer HR teams maximum flexibility so they could design their processes exactly the way they want. A good example of this is the ability to define detailed access permissions, so all people managers can see promotion history while being limited to only direct team compensation data.?

We also recognize that your needs aren’t fixed, they evolve as your organization matures. For instance, you might want to move from the occasional surveys using general purpose survey tools to a more formal approach, one where you continuously capture employee feedback. With 200+ native and partner applications, you’ll be able to add new people workflows as you need them.

"Scalability is easy with Personio, and the additional costs are transparent, which helps with our planning."

— Dave Birchall , Chief People Officer at Node4

Today’s new features announcements include a beta release of our very own Workforce Planning solution. This will help manage your headcount planning, associated recruiting workflows, visualize impact to org charts, and more.

?? Proactive Insights to uncover hidden trends

Finally, the ability to gain insight from people data and make data-driven decisions has long been a challenge for HR teams. With Proactive Insights, we’re providing an entirely new way to learn about trends in your people data.

For example, perhaps there has been a recent increase in attrition rates in a specific department or an unfavorable trend in gender equity. With Proactive Insights, you’ll be notified of such trends well in advance so you’re able to respond quickly.

"I love how intuitive Personio’s system is and how the help it offers is available in different forms. As an HR manager, I want to be able to customize reports and export the data at the click of a button. It’s amazing how easy it is to do this with Personio."

— Julie Anne Gajudo , Talent Management at Polaroid

In addition to being notified of key trends, you’ll be able to leverage a new feature we’re calling Personio Assistant! You’ll be able to ask Personio Assistant questions as well as request tasks such as “show me a summary of all hires in the last year organized by location & level”. It’s truly amazing and will be available later this calendar year.

?? Build the future with us!

We’re committed to building The Intelligent HR Platform together with HR teams. That is why I would love to invite you to join our co-creation council to share your insights and help shape future features. If you’re a current customer of Personio, please start by reaching out to your Customer Success Manager.?

For those considering Personio for your own organization, there’s no better time to join our early adopter program and build the future of HR together.

?? Finally, to get a front row seat at HUG 2024, including exciting demos to see for yourself, simply watch back the recording of today’s keynote at your leisure.