HR moves to the cloud

Outsourced HR services are growing and the cloud is a convenient platform, writes Leslie Faughnan

HR people are starting to lean towards the cloud technology Pic: iStock.com

Does anyone remember the Personnel Department? It has long been replaced in our terminology by Human Resources (HR) and in many organisations has mutated to today’s Human Capital Management (HCM). Perhaps some part of that is driven by political correctness, but there is an important truth in thinking of employees as assets and resources.

In many respects, it places the emphasis precisely where it should be – on the people and their abilities ...