Swine Flu: will your HR systems help you cope?

According to the Government's Chief Medical Officer a second wave of swine flu is on the way, and whilst the impact of the virus on individuals is thankfully mild in the majority of cases, the impact on businesses could be severe if they're not properly prepared.

Organisations are being urged to make contingency plans to cope with the possibility of high absence levels over the coming months. At times like this having the right management systems and processes in place can make a massive difference to your ability to continue effectively. A good HR system could have a significant impact.

• Is your current system fully web-based, enabling users to work from home with secure access to data, documents and functionality?
• Does it provide your line managers and senior executives with easy access to employee information, HR documentation and guidance, enabling them to manage effectively in the event of your HR team being laid low?
• Does it enable you to easily keep track of absences and holidays and quickly identify gaps in the organisation?
• Does it help you provide guidance to front-line managers about how to manage staff at this time, both the sick and the 'worried well'?
• Does it enable you to identify employees who have transferable skills who could be re-deployed to fill a gap?
• Does it enable your employees to have secure access from home to update their own details or access company documentation?
• Is it a fully-managed, hosted service and therefore not vulnerable to internal network constraints or the absence of key IT staff.

If you have any concerns about the ability of your current HR system to help you deal with swine flu then maybe you should take advantage of activHR Consulting's unique Scrappage Scheme for out-of-date HR systems and realise a saving of 40%.

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Best regards,

The activHR Consulting team

activHR Consulting's Online HR Toolkit provides line managers and HR users with all of the tools, information, processes and up-to-date guidance that they need to manage effectively from anywhere- in one easy-to-use solution.