Human Resources Document Control and Management

Is your Human Resources department drowning incontrol over every document that is converted to a
paper? Human Resource departments are notoriousdigital format. You can give admin rights to certain
for tremendous amounts of paper due to the primarypeople in your company allowing them access to only
processes they maintain such as Recruitingcertain level files, and give the managers increased
documents, Hiring and Job Applications, Employeeaccess. And when an employee changes positions
Reviews / Writeups, I9 Forms, and Benefityou can immediately revoke their access.
Documentation to name a few.4. Regulatory document compliance - Regulatory acts
But most importantly with the onset of a multitude ofcan be integrated in the system as they are created
regulatory acts to comply with, such as HIPAA,without having to duplicate and move heavy paper
FERPA, FACTA, FMLA the Human Resourcesfiles to a different secure facility. You can require 'need
department needs to know all of that documentation isto know' verification access as well.
secure from theft or intrusion. And having these asImagine having a desk that is not covered in paper, and
paper documents can open a company up to loss inbeing able to respond to employee requests with the
other ways as well, like for instance a fire of theuse of your keyboard. That is the daily objective of
facility. If there is no external archive of every singledocument conversion and management, because
document that company has lost valuable information.converting paper documents is only part of the solution.
There is a better way to meet these requirementsThe HR department needs to have ultimate control
AND insert efficiency for your HR department using aover every document for individual security as well as
document conversion process. You can take all ofmeeting regulatory compliance.
those invaluable documents holding the personalSelecting a document management system should
information of all you present and past employees andaccount for the applications and processes you
putting them in to a digital format that is more readilycurrently have in place. Because the new system
available and archive-able.should integrate in to your current work environment
1. Reduce your storage costs - Open up the spaceapplications and allow you to easily transfer your
you are currently using to file all of these documentscurrent process in to a more efficient system. If you
and either make is more productive or no longer payare having to recreate your entire process for the
the monthly rent.department to fit a new document management
2. Reduce you document retrieval costs - An averagesoftware I would highly recommend that you continue
of 7 minutes is spent every time you have to look forto research or verify that you NEED to make that
a paper document, reduce that time to seconds bychange. Some companies do ... but in general, most
using an internal, secure, search feature.companies have a smooth HR process transition.
3. Increase document security - You have unlimited