The HR industry expert, Josh Bersin, recently described how the multi-billion dollar HR software market is moving in a new direction (‘The HR Software Market Reinvents Itself‘). This will be of interest to anyone pondering how to grow an HR tech company.

Bersin is well-known for mapping and monitoring the development of the HR tech industry.

It would appear that we’re moving towards an era of ‘HR in the flow of work‘ and HR tools will play a starring role.

I was interested to note Bersin’s comments about the proliferation of HR tools:

“As organizations become more agile and team oriented, these tools are moving in a whole new direction. Now we need software that facilitates teamwork and agile goal management, helps people give each other feedback, and helps facilitate continuous performance management and self-improvement.

These tools are consumer-like, easy to use, and mobile by design.”

Josh Bersin

I recently spoke with a co-founder of one of these new HR tools – the tool is clearly ‘consumer-like, easy to use, and mobile by design.’

Meet AttendanceBot

AttendanceBot is an HR Tech tool with a specific focus on using any enterprise instant messaging platform like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, etc, for attendance management.

Why base an HR tool an an instant messaging tool such as Slack?

You may not use Slack but millions of other people do and AttendanceBot is riding that rocketship as well as growing with the other instant messanger services.

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