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Current market trends in online document verification solutions Complygate’s Online Document Verification solution uses AI and machine learning tools along with robust document verification processes in order to not only verify documents with the person’s photo and built-in security features, but also documents such as electricity or gas bills, bank statements, etc. Over the years, proof of address (PoA) fraud has become a serious challenge for financial institutions and other businesses, COVID-19 has accelerated the fraud related to the address proof doctoring. These documents can be easily altered as they lack basic security features and there are many occasions when a temporary address was submitted to imitate the permanent address. These are few of the reasons why banks and government need proof of address (PoA) and needs to ascertain their authenticity: To prove address and verify identity know your customer (KYC) requirements To comply with ‘The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financ...

  Essential HR Software Features for 2021 According to statistics, the key features for an online HR software to have are: - Employee experience - Performance & engagement - Applicant Tracking System - Effective Onboarding In the field of human resources, progressive growth and increase in size of an organization introduces various complexities and intricacies in various processes and tasks. Attendance reports, hiring processes and various other processes that once used to be swift and delivering instant outcomes have now become slow and rather cumbersome. However, a availability of the right set of digital tools and software can alleviate inherent bottlenecks, ease up processes and propel your organization towards instant and rapid growth. HR software assists the HR team in handling the most complex, cumbersome and time-consuming tasks and workflows with seamlessness and ease and transform the workplace by empowering the workforce to perform at their peak. Today’s best HR soft...

Employee engagement in the new normal With the new normal, and the announcement of a new Lockdown in the UK on the 5th of January, driving employee engagement and motivation has become a key focus area for HR professionals. Learn what are the key factors to employee engagement in the new normal on our last blog post. Click here to read the full article.

Diversity At Work: What Is It And Why Is It Important? Diversity At Work: What Is It And Why Is It Important? © - Complygate, Jan. 2021 Professor Chris Rowley Kellogg College, University of Oxford & City’s Business School, University of London The topic of ‘diversity’ at work is an important issue for businesses and management as well as practitioners and policy makers for a variety of reasons. There are both ‘push’ and ‘pull’ forces within these factors. These range on a spectrum from the minimalist - just doing the bare, legal compliance, to business strategies and opportunities, such as marketing, enhanced sales as well as PR image, to better decision making and even contributions to the bottom line, financial returns and enhanced corporate performance, all the way through to moral and ethical reasons. An initial issue concerns the concept of diversity itself in terms of meaning, definition, coverage and measurement. Exactly what is meant by diversity, where and how is it gauged...

Key Core HR Competencies for Future Core HR Human Resource functions are constantly reinventing themselves with time through new visions, strategies, processes, technologies and systems. However, sustenance of transformation of the human resource functions requires the HR professionals to develop and implement a new set of competencies required to fulfil the transforming roles and responsibilities. Depending on the factors which are most likely to influence the future of HR, experts propose a competency model which encompasses both generic and specific HR competencies for general and specialised roles and businesses, respectively. Core HR is a blanket term that constitutes the basic functions of an HR department. Core HR functions include recruitment, payroll, administration, training, compliance etc. Alternately, core HR also encompasses Human Capital Management. Core HR also includes personnel information for candidate employment and administration as well as organizational data. The...

What are the best practices of Performance Management? Today’s remote worker require an incredibly unique approach to the performance management. With the new normal there is always a need to monitor expected behaviour and tracking results, as new business models and challenges are emerging. Most organisations were not prepared for this pandemic, people should feel free to act, and making mistakes should be acceptable. Line managers should be able to support employees and help with their development. Cascading goals to individual worker Passing organisational goals from higher management to each employee and refine them at each level so that the original goal is retained. This idea of managing by objectives dates back many decades. HR practitioners who support this argue that this helps people understand how work is related across different organisational levels, and what are the priorities? To them this is vital to reduce attrition and turf battles. However, creating, and cascading go...

Performance Management System: Has Covid-19 made the broken system worse? Performance Management Systems have been criticised for decades, as new practices and use of technology have failed to bridge the gap. However, the management of employee’s performance remains one of the biggest challenges for line managers and leaders in this new normal. 35 years ago Edwards Deming described the idea of evaluation of performance, merit rating or annual review as alluring, and the result of the process is exactly what the word means. Many other followed Edward Deming and got on the bandwagon as performance reviews are not done often enough or too often managed poorly. Constructive and unbiased feedback is like finding water on mars. Covid-19 has changed business models, workplace, and the workforce needs to adapt, so how we evaluate performance needs to be carefully considered. It is especially important to plan for the competency development for the new normal. Organisations invest mountains of ...