In today’s fast-paced corporate environment, efficient HR processes are essential for keeping employees productive and engaged. However, generic HRMS solutions often fall short in catering to an organization’s unique policies and workflows for travel, leave, and other HR services. This inability to fully digitize and automate core processes results in tedious manual tasks, bottlenecks, and employee frustration.
PeopleStrong’s innovative Builder platform is solving this challenge by empowering HR teams to build custom apps tailored to their specific needs without heavy coding efforts. Let’s explore two powerful use cases – Travel Requests and Leave Encashment – where Builder is delivering major efficiencies.
Hassle-Free Travel Requests
Managing travel for a mobile workforce is a notoriously complex and paper-intensive process involving advance booking, travel approvals, expense reporting, reimbursements, and more. PeopleStrong has developed a dedicated Travel Request app on the Builder platform to bring end-to-end automation to this crucial function.
With the Travel Request app, employees can seamlessly raise travel requests and provide all necessary details like travel dates, boarding, lodging, cab requirements, and more through an intuitive form. This initiates a flexible, multi-level approval workflow customized as per the organization’s hierarchy and policies.
Once approvals are obtained, the request automatically routes to the company’s designated travel desk. They can then make the bookings and update all travel arrangements within the app. Employees have full visibility into the status through the process.
This app eliminates countless emails, approval delays, and manual booking efforts. It provides a standardized experience, ensures policy compliance, and seamlessly integrates data from the core PeopleStrong HRMS like employee details, leave balances, etc. The travel app can also connect to third-party systems for services like cab bookings through APIs.
Effortless Leave Encashment
Many organizations incentivize employees by allowing them to encash and monetize a portion of their accumulated leave balance as per defined criteria. However, manually keeping track of eligibility rules, obtaining approvals, calculating encashment amounts, and coordinating with payroll is an administrative nightmare.
With the Leave Encashment app on Builder, the entire process is digitized through intuitive forms that capture the employee’s encashment request. As the request moves through a customized multi-level approval workflow, the app automatically enforces the organization’s specific policies around leave balances, tenure, grades and more.
Approved requests then flow seamlessly into the payroll system for disbursing the encashment amount in the next pay cycle. Each step from initiation to pay-out is tracked within the app, providing a clear audit trail.
This eliminates the hassles of managing the leave encashment process through emails and spreadsheets. HR teams can define the exact eligibility criteria through simple rules and ensure accurate policy enforcement.
The Key Advantages
Both these apps were developed rapidly on PeopleStrong’s low-code/no-code Builder platform without heavy technical or IT involvement. This allowed the HR team to digitally transform travel and leave processes by:
- Creating custom forms and fields tailored to their exact requirements
- Defining multi-level approval workflows with automated routing and escalations
- Seamlessly utilizing and updating data from the core PeopleStrong HRMS
- Integrating data with other systems like payroll, travel vendors, etc. via APIs
- Deploying mobile-friendly apps for employee self-service
- Ensuring compliance, audit trails, and real-time analytics
The flexibility of Builder empowered HR to eliminate tedious manual tasks, minimize errors, enforce standardized processes, and deliver a modern digital experience to their workforce.
The Future of HR Innovation These are just two examples of how PeopleStrong’s Builder is ushering in a new era of rapid HR application development and process transformation. With its intuitive low-code/no-code capabilities, HR teams can truly become drivers of innovation within their organizations.
The possibilities are endless for HR to reimagine employee experiences and drive efficiencies by developing purpose-built apps on the Builder platform. With codeless app development, seamless integration capabilities, and robust workflow/approval engines, PeopleStrong Builder is empowering the future of agile HR technology.
