Time is of the essence when you found a startup. Not only might you be trying to get products and services to market ahead of competition, you’re also beating a path into the unknown, with blind alleys and false starts ever-present risks. As well as developing your business’s core functions, you might also be a salesperson and a finance expert. Have you really got time to add HR guru to your list of skills?
It’s a familiar problem for startups. The initial flurry of interest means that growth comes more quickly than expected, and suddenly you have to start employing people, people with holiday requirements, sick days, training, disciplinary records … It’s no wonder that this stage is one of the most difficult for startups who might have no skills or experience dealing with employees.
A simple solution is to equip your startup with hronline. It’s a simple cloud-based application that keeps a record of all your human resources needs.
Give each member of staff a profile and you can allocate holiday entitlements to them, and they’ll be able to log in and book days off themselves – which you or an intermediary can accept or reject depending on your workload and other granted holidays. And the employees will be alerted to your decision instantly. They’ll also be able to see how many days they have left.
Sickness, timekeeping issues and disciplinary proceedings can all be logged against employees and the statistics can be used to create reports on their effectiveness when it comes to appraisals and reliability.
And if you decide to use the Plus or Premium services, you’ll be entitled to advice from our employment law experts, a brilliant extra that’s gold dust to startups, for whom employment law might not necessarily have been on their radar when they started out.
In short, hronline frees up time to let you get on with building on your dream – and it lets your staff get on with helping you to get there.
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