For Sodexho Marriott, technology plays the dual role of cutting administrative costs through systems automation and providing a helping hand with more strategic tasks as well. He also relies on technology to suck the costs out of those pesky yet necessary administrative chores. People would rather have you spend money on the benefit than on its administration. My goal here is to pull money out of administration and put it into content and strategy. We've got to be familiar with it and know how to invest it in the business.
HR technology cuts across the entire enterprise.
Internal Web sites post HR policies and procedures, and employees use intranets to check out the latest benefits and change their addresses. For HR managers, the challenge remains to effectively combine technology trends and business requirements into a vision that contains elements of both. But in today's world, it's a little bit of both. And that's not so terrible. By blending business needs with technology, HR folks have come to rely on IT to hire and retain good workers as well as to automate the administrative function.