How to Scale & Automate Smaller HR Departments

Smaller HR departments are common, with an average HR staff-to-employee ratio of around 2.57 for all organizations. With each added employee, there are more responsibilities to manage. These tasks are often time-consuming, involving manual processes, multiple systems, and manual data entry.

However, running an HR department successfully with one to three people is possible, even when experiencing an employee count increase. It can be done with proactive planning and strategic use of human capital management technology to automate specific HR and payroll tasks. In this guide, you’ll learn about:

• The importance of automating HR processes and how it helps ease the burdens of a smaller HR department.
• The benefits of automating HR and payroll processes and how it can empower smaller HR teams.
• A real-life case study of a company with a small HR department that automated its HR and payroll tasks by partnering with APS.