Digital Workplace - Step 3: productivity & growth

After streamlining your HR processes and enhancing the user experience, the next step is to shift your focus towards work tech that fosters worker growth, engagement, and productivity. This includes learning and development programs, well-being and skill mapping apps, collaboration platforms, and more. By providing the right tools, employees can perform tasks more effectively, grow professionally and personally, and ultimately increase organizational productivity.

By creating a digital workplace equipped with the right tools, employees can perform tasks more effectively, develop professionally, and grow personally, resulting in a more productive organization overall.

This step requires a certain level of digital maturity, a long-term vision and a workplace culture that embraces change. Because of the significant investments, human-oriented digitalisation is mainly applied in larger organisations. There, the right tech can enable deeper connections between employees, and with the organisation. However, an increasing number of tech vendors are offering affordable solutions for SMEs as well.

At a certain point, you’ll have quite a range of transactional and work tech in place. Chances are that this will result in a scattered tech landscape and a digital overload, neither great for the employee experience. The solution lies in seamless and intelligent integration, while alignment with the worker’s journey is also key.

Less than 4 in 10 European organisations claim that they’ve already reached high or full integration between HR applications, so there’s still a lot of work to be done: