10 Things You Can Do With Online Evaluations, That You Can’t Do With Paper

While web-based employee performance management systems aren’t new to the market, many companies have yet to automate their appraisal process. As we look for ways to improve efficiency and reduce costs to help weather the current economic downturn, HR Professionals may be tempted or encouraged to delay technology investments. But that could be shortsighted. We thought it might be worth reiterating some the benefits:

1. Always know exactly where every performance appraisal is, in every step of your process, and who is holding things up. An automated process with intelligent automatic email reminders and instant reports ensures employees and managers are held accountable to complete their tasks on time.

2. Save time and money – As Josh Bersin reports, “reductions in cost” are a top priority among HR and L&D executives for this quarter. Moving to web-based evaluations is one of the quickest ways to pare significant time off your performance evaluation process – up to 75% – and save money, with a quick and significant ROI.

3. Show employees how their goals are linked to corporate goals and let them see progress updates on those goals so they see how their efforts contribute to the organization’s success.

4. Make sure employees are working on the right things – Let your leadership see everyone’s goals, and the progress they are making, to ensure employees are working on the right things, and supporting strategic goals.

5. Instantly generate strategic reports – view current and historical data on performance scores, critical competencies, goals and development plans so you can better manage your workforce.

6. Access performance appraisals and supporting materials anytime, anywhere – web-based evaluations are available to managers and employees anytime and anywhere they need them. There’s never any paper to forget, misplace, or lose. Everyone who needs to has access to the employee performance review and any supporting material, like performance journal notes, goals, past appraisals, and more..

7. Get instant fingertip access to feedback and ratings from multi-rater reviewers – for faster, richer feedback with no need to retype.

8. Check for language sensitivity –so you can eliminate questionable words or comments that can lead to legal headaches.

9. Speed up the writing process for managers with Comment Helper text and development tips, for more consistent and detailed feedback and coaching.

10. Automatically calculate appraisal scores – so you never have to worry about adding or averaging mistakes.