The story of HR tech and its changing nature

The growing relevance of the HR function in recent years can be pinned down to the adoption of new age technologies within its processes. Always a critical arm of organizations, the HR function has been at the helm of making talent decisions. But traditionally, what all this translated into was to undertake transactional, ‘by the book’ activities which were thought to create necessary changes within the workforce, all aimed solely at meeting the business demands. Business leaders were often found to be treating their HR initiatives at best as activities with low and unpredictable ROI, or at worse as meaningless attempts to make the workforce more motivated and efficient. But the changing nature of modern day businesses meant that this trend doesn’t remain unaffected.