| Why HR Software is NOT free? | | | | How can you get it for Free. |
| Let me begin with why there can’t be free | | | | My second argument is that there are huge number of |
| software in HR Domain. | | | | HR Processes and policies. Almost every company |
| My first argument is that it takes lots of efforts to | | | | has its own HR policies and practices. To develop a |
| develop an HR Software, because an HR Software is | | | | globally applicable HR software, the software vendor |
| not merely a plain database of employees information | | | | has to study hundreds of HR practices, analyse the |
| fields (like in an Excel Sheet or MS Access) but a | | | | data patterns, and then develop a good HR Software |
| large collection of various types of information which | | | | which can be customized to the specific practices/ |
| are linked to each other in a logical way so that an | | | | processes followed by the user. Thus a good HR |
| output can provide a Common Sense View about the | | | | Software requires thousands of man hours of effort |
| employees. | | | | before it can add some value to HR. Anything which |
| If I need to define HR Software I will say “HR | | | | requires efforts at such a mass scale cannot be |
| Software is a process for the collection, analysis, | | | | developed for free. Because there is no free lunch for |
| interpretation and presentation of employee’s data. | | | | the developers and no one else can do it! |
| It can provide tools for prediction and forecasting | | | | But there are free softwares on Internet? |
| based on data. Thus it can be used for a wide variety | | | | Yes, some of my friends will say there are free |
| of management decisions, financial decisions about | | | | softwares available on Internet. To find the truth, I |
| manpower, performance of people, succession | | | | searched for “Free HR Software” on Google. |
| planning and removal of non-performers.” Such an | | | | Look, what I got: |
| important software, which provides a total MIS on | | | | Read rest of this story on my blog Talent Junction. |
| human resources has to be created with great care. | | | | |