HR is in the Cloud

The advent of Cloud-based software solutions has placed many organisations in a conundrum as, over the past number of years, huge investments have been made in order to get on-premise style solutions in place. This entailed huge costs associated with the purchase of the software, the purchase of the required hardware and, of course, all those costs associated with the implementation and training for optimal use of the selected solution. Once all these once-off costs were absorbed or capitalised, an additional budget had to be set aside for the annual maintenance fees of the system. In essence, companies have spent loads of money on their current installed systems, and are not too excited about spending more money to change. When we then add to the fact that the Human Resources team is a cost centre within the organisation, the challenges they have faced and will face to receive additional budget for moving systems will be difficult to say the least.