Meet 10 partners helping businesses transform their workforces to survive.
When historians look back at seismic changes in the workforce, they may find the COVID-19 pandemic led to the most rapid transformation. Other changes altered our work – the industrial revolution, higher education, labor laws – but none with the speed of the Spring of 2020. COVID-induced changes seemed to happen overnight, with Zoom calls, businesses going digital, and employees quickly adapting to work-from-home environments.
As the world transitions to a new normal, we’ll see more changes in the workforce, in the human resources (HR) function and the technologies that support them. Trend watchers like Gartner, Forbes, and HR organizations are already making predictions.
SAP partners embraced the initial COVID-19 challenge with speed and innovation to help businesses survive and thrive when the pandemic began. Now they’re working with customers on solutions that benefit workers and employers. These partner technologies integrate with SAP solutions to complement or expand the capabilities for customers.
Embracing the Hybrid Office
COVID-19 drove a massive shift to virtual, at-home work. Now companies are grappling with what comes next: Do we stay home? Go back to the office? A hybrid model seems most likely. A Gartner poll predicts 48% of employees will probably work at least part of the time remotely after COVID-19.
Keeping employees engaged, recognized, and trained is the goal of workforce management tools. Here are some ways SAP partners are supporting businesses to address these challenges.
JobsPTS, an SAP endorsed app from Semos Cloud, lets employers create workplaces to attract top talent, retain high performing workers, and increase employee productivity while delivering a personalized experience. Solutions include internal communications, surveys, and feedback management.
Gathering employee feedback is crucial for professional development, engagement, and team performance. 5Feedback developed Feedback for Employee Development, a tool that lets employees request and give anonymous and confidential feedback on 24 soft skills, like motivation and flexibility, as well as on specific events.
The Go1 Content Hub, a huge eLearning library from top training providers, is SAP certified for integration with cloud solutions from SAP and available on SAP Store for trial or purchase. Quality training allows businesses to upskill, re-train, and retain employees.
Collecting Data and Using Analytics
According to AIHR Academy, an online training provider for HR professionals, “profit margins of firms with an advanced people analytics function are 56% higher than less data-driven competitors.” Analytics help employers track employee success from a distance, including learning and development.
SAP partners are meeting the needs of customers with HR-specific tools that collect and crunch data to influence action, reduce overhead, and hire right.
Team training presents a special challenge, whether the team is across the globe or in the same town but with everyone at home. The Team Coaching solution from SAP partner Cloverleaf uses employee data to provide insight into increasing team effectiveness and reminds users how to improve team performance.
More than 50% of HR capacity goes into administrative tasks with a lot of documents. Employee File for SAP Solutions from Centric Cloud Solutions brings together documents and data for each employee into one view, streamlining HR so a business can find all relevant employee info quickly.
Screening potential employees often starts with data. The J-One Integrated Employment Screening & Drug Testing platform from Employment Background Investigations (EBI) is SAP certified for integration with cloud solutions. It lets businesses quickly order EBI’s screening services to evaluate and determine hiring decisions based on background, drug tests, and other data.
Supporting the Contingent Workforce
As we move closer to a post-pandemic world, many highly skilled and specialized contingent workers find themselves in high demand. Customers of SAP Fieldglass solutions saw a 16 percent increase year-over-year in hiring contingent healthcare workers. Healthcare isn’t the only growing sector. Gartner research finds that 32% of organizations are saving money by replacing full-time workers with contractors.
Tools for HR and procurement to source and manage a non-permanent, external workforce give businesses flexibility to handle peaks in demand. SAP partners deliver tools to effectively manage this unique, increasingly strategic workforce segment.
CEIPAL provides a Software as a Service platform that automates front- and back-office business operations of staffing companies. The company added its contingent workforce management solution to SAP Store in January. The AI-powered recruitment and talent management tool streamlines operations for staffing companies, managed service providers, and corporations.
Making background checks simple for both applicants and employers reduces frustration and can improve onboarding. HireRight’s background check tool for SAP Fieldglass solutions screens external workers against company standards. The solution includes electronic consent and authorization using e-signature.
The SniperAI extension for SAP Fieldglass solutions uses technology like machine learning to match resumes and CVs with job specifications with improved accuracy, which helps reduce the time to hire and cost to hire. This means businesses using SAP Fieldglass solutions can cut time scanning resumes by 53% and reduce sourcing costs by 37%.
Growing a sustainable pool of external talent can be time and resource intensive. Talent Pool and Direct Sourcing from WorkLLama is a mobile-first engagement platform that uses automation and artificial intelligence to make it easy for candidates to apply for jobs and ask questions, and for current employees to refer friends.
Preparing for What’s Next
In their rapid response to the challenges of COVID-19, SAP partners proved to be innovative and flexible. Those well-honed skills have prepared them for whatever changes 2021 has in store.
Learn more about partner’s responses to the pandemic in 2020 and find additional partner solutions specifically addressing COVID-19 here on SAP Store.
Find more exciting news about SAP partner offerings on the partner news site on SAP.com.
