Implementing effective Employee Self Service Options can significantly boost employee engagement and streamline business operations. By providing employees with a user-friendly platform to manage their own HR tasks, companies can foster a sense of autonomy and trust, leading to increased productivity and reduced turnover.

Employee engagement has become an increasingly popular topic of discussion between business owners and their HR teams in recent years, and it’s easy to see why. Having an office full of involved and enthusiastic workers almost assuredly leads to increased productivity, reduced turnover and an improved work culture. And yet, only 33% of employees in the U.S. consider themselves to be engaged in their workplace. It’s up to management to bring that percentage up, but how?

There are several methods a company can use to improve employee engagement (check out our blog: Four Ways to Improve Your Company’s Employee Engagement), but there’s one tactic that really has HR teams cheering: adding an employee self-service (ESS) platform to their automated HR processes. (Full disclosure: the cheering isn’t just for the employee engagement benefits…but we’ll get to that in a minute!)

What Are Employee Self Service Options and Their Benefits?

An Employee Self-Service portal is a secure, cloud-based application that gives employees web or mobile HR access, anytime, anywhere. It allows your workers to handle a variety of HCM tasks on their own, including:

  • Editing their personal information
  • Tracking their time and attendance
  • Managing their benefits and compensation
  • Accessing company policies and development opportunities

Accu Data has offered a version of this HR self-service tool for over 20 years and the feedback we get from clients is always positive. Managers will tell us how their employees enjoy the level of autonomy they experience when managing their personal and work-related information, whether it’s printing paystub, changing their 401k contributions or request time off.

In short, ESS promotes independence, instilling a level of trust in your workers that not only empowers them, but builds loyalty as well.

How Employee Self Service Options Benefit HR Teams

As we hinted to earlier, installing self-service HR features doesn’t just benefit your employees. Your human resources team also comes out ahead, freed from the substantial administrative workload that can eat up days at a time. Now, instead keying in each employee’s new personal data, PTO requests and benefit changes (plus all of the email chains and paperwork that goes with them), HR reps can now focus on more strategic initiatives and long-term objectives for their company.

Ensuring Compliance with ESS Solutions

Inaccurate employee information, especially on paystubs and W-2 forms, can lead to tax penalties and regulatory fines. An integrated ESS greatly reduces compliance worries, because staff members will be able to review their information and correct all inaccurate and outdated data.

Why Choose Accu Data for Employee Self Service Solutions

Are you looking to add employee self-service to your workforce management solutions? Accu Data’s ESS portal offers your workers mobile, 24-hour access and a user-friendly interface. It’s simple to use, and it’s safe, with all sensitive employee information securely stored and managed.

Contact Accu Data to learn more about how our ESS solution can help improve employee engagement and improve your company’s efficiency!