Employee Self Service Portal for Empowering the Workforce
Allow your workforce to store and access varied information through the employee self-service portal, which helps create a transparent working environment.
A self-service portal developed explicitly to encourage employees
Provide your staff the authority to access and update their information, receive announcements from superiors, regularize attendance, apply for leave and advance requests, etc., for better engagement with the whole organization.
Reduces HR Burden
factoHR’s ESS portal allows employees to correct attendance, apply for leave, view payroll information, and many more without contacting HR, thus reducing their burden for the same tasks.
Increase Engagement
Authorize employees to access most of the ordinary tasks themselves without intervening HR, which motivates and engages them with the organization.
Saves Time
factoHR’s ESS portal gives HR and employees an opportunity to save time efficiently as most of the tasks can be completed by workers via the portal.
What is an Employee Self Service Portal?
Employee self-service portal is specifically designed for assisting employees throughout the organization. It is generally made to provide employee benefits and easing down HR functions. Employees can view and update their information, download payslip and IT statements, correct attendance, apply for leave or advance requests, all of these, and many more just in one software.
factoHR makes it possible for HR to share regular announcements with the employees from a single space.
Birthday and Anniversary Greetings
With factoHR, share birthdays and work anniversary events of employees with their peers and make them feel special on their special day.
Document Sharing
Share varied documents related to policies, training, updates, etc., with the employees, which they can download whenever needed.
Online Punch
Let your employees mark their attendance punches from the software, helping you to organize a hygienic environment.
Investment Declaration (Proof Attachment)
Employees can now easily and quickly upload their investment declaration attachment without asking HR to do so, thus saving enough time.
Payslip
Employees can view and download payslips with multilingual support and other salary-related information at their convenience.
Leave
It is now easy for employees to apply for leave from distinct leave types along with required attachments through the portal without asking HR and managers for the same.
Travel Application
Employees can generate travel applications mentioning the date, mode, and purpose of travel along with advance requests through the web portal, helping organizations to go paperless.
Expense Submission
Allow employees to submit expense claims for any amount along with proof attachments after their travel journey, which then can be considered for approval.
Performance Management
Employees can enter their KRA and KPIs, submit their reviews, check managers’ feedback based on the goals, and download performance review reports.
Attendance Regularization
Organizations can allow their staff to regularize missed punches from the attendance module, which managers can approve/reject and consider for salary processing.
Reporting
Various reports, including payslips, IT statements, attendance and leave summary, performance reviews, can be downloaded to reduce the manual efforts of preparing spreadsheets.
Frequently Asked Questions on Employee Self Service
What are the features of an ESS portal?
Specifically designed to empower the workforce of every organization with the use of a web-based application, the Employee Self Service portal has diverse features, which includes the following:
• Allow employees to enter, update, and access all the personal information stored in the company records. • Enable attendance correction, leave and travel application, claim request, etc., for employees. • Facilitates them in downloading payslips, IT statements, various forms, and reports. • Enable attendance punch, information sharing, and many other tasks.
How ESS portal benefits the organizations?
ESS portal empowers the workforce to manage most of the common activities themselves with unique login credentials for each employee. This makes the HR’s plate free from some of the repetitive tasks. Here are the benefits offered to an organization:
• Increased efficiency for the operational tasks. • Empowered workforce. • Improved productivity of the organizational environment. • Enhanced employee trust, morals, and engagement amongst each other. • Increased information transparency. • Decreased usage of papers in the premises. • Tightened information security. • Simplified tasks in the organization. • Reduced monotonous tasks.
How does employee self-service satisfy the business demands?
Businesses always want their employees to perform perfectly. The implementation of the ESS portal for the employees offers them a sense of trust and motivation, which helps them in achieving their goals which are aligned to the business targets. All the features of ESS boost employees to complete tasks themselves without asking HR. As they are not dependent on somebody, it saves enough time which they can use to power their and organization’s productivity.
How much does an ESS portal cost?
The price range for an employee self-service portal is around ₹ 10 per month per employee. This amount may differ from vendor to vendor and feature to feature. Most of the workforce management software sellers include ESS portals in their packages but may or may not sell separately.
Is my information safe on the portal?
I would say it is absolutely secure. The ESS portal which organizations use includes a cloud storage facility with separate login credentials for as many users as you want. This cloud storage is assured using high standards of security. As access to the data is limited to the users, a data breach cannot happen unless certainly if the credentials are shared.
That said, no outsiders (not even the colleagues) can access the data of employees.
Enhance your workforce’s productivity with factoHR today
Make your employees independent and trustworthy with factoHR’s ESS portal and boost them to work encouragingly for the firm.