{"id":15972,"date":"2025-09-11T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/15972\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:22:10","slug":"manual-hr-processes-leaving-businesses-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/15972\/","title":{"rendered":"Manual HR processes leaving businesses exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professional services firms are also struggling to keep pace with other sectors in using tech for HR and payroll.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are businesses where a team of two or three people are trying to wear every hat \u2013 and still manually manage contracts, visas, and leave,&#8221; said Sarah Garvin, Associate Director of Sales and Marketing at Smartly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scoop.co.nz\/stories\/BU2509\/S00180\/small-businesses-and-professional-services-slow-to-digitise-hr-but-the-opportunity-is-clear.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A common barrier to HR tech adoption that the report found is perception, as firms believe that these solutions are too big or too complex for their operations.<\/p>\n<p>They may also think that these tools are too expensive for them, according to Smartly.<\/p>\n<p>Accessible tools now available<\/p>\n<p>Smartly, however, pointed out that modern HR tech tools are no longer just for big firms, as accessible solutions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/nz\/news\/general\/how-digital-is-helping-john-holland-build-for-the-future\/150959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">now exist for even smaller businesses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Professional services firms are also struggling to keep pace with other sectors in using tech for HR and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18072,1144,111,43,139,69,18073],"class_list":["post-15972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-digital-hr-solutions","tag-human-resources","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tech-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}