Thomsons Online Benefits Research Shows: HR Leaders are Burying their Heads in the Sand when it comes to Employees’ Technology Experience
While 51% of HR leaders label the HR technology experience provided by their organization as ‘great’, less than a third (33%) of employees would agree, a new report by Thomsons Online Benefits finds.
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The age of agility: Flexible, adaptable and resilient benefits 2020/21 surveyed 542 HR leaders and 2000 global employees to reveal a disconnect when it comes to views on enterprise technology. This is particularly concerning given the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent shift to home working, which is leaving employers more reliant on technology to engage with their employees.
Against this backdrop, and with distributed working likely to become a hallmark of our future, it’s more important than ever that employees feel connected with their workplace technology. And yet, just 39% feel it offers a consumer-grade experience akin to that provided by platforms such as Spotify and Netflix. Despite consumer technology’s capabilities constantly improving prior to the pandemic, businesses are not taking their employees’ workplace experience seriously – especially when it comes to technology.
This presents a significant blind spot for HR leaders. Four in five (81%) say that a globally consistent employee experience is a ‘high priority’, while over half (56%) highlight this as their number one priority. However, failure to improve employees’ technology experience could see them fall short against this important objective.
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Chris Bruce, Co-founder and MD, Thomsons, comments: “The current crisis has accelerated two significant shifts. Firstly, people are becoming less tolerant of bad tech experiences. When they’re interacting with intuitive technologies every day to watch movies, shop and keep fit, anything less than this is actively disengaging – and it’s shocking that HR leaders are still not taking this seriously. Secondly, employees’ technology experience is increasingly interlinked with their overall employee experience. With employee experience such a top priority, a sub-standard tech experience just isn’t good enough – especially now that via technology is often their primary method of engagement.”
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