"Computers are not about to wholly replace human beings in the HR function, but they are about to shake it up," writes Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes contributor. "Like many aspects of cloud and business digitization, where tasks are taken away from us as humans, we are generally speaking being given more scope to direct our work towards more creative endeavors and to innovate."
One term HR professionals are probably seeing used more often is human capital management. This highlights that the digital transformation is happening in HR. What used to be done by humans, including vacation approvals, e-learning programs, employee pay and bonus remuneration, and workforce productivity analytics, will be handled by cloud-based human capital management systems.
"HR HCM managers who fail to embrace the new digital tools of the trade might just risk demoting themselves to being not a whole lot more than a human shoulder to cry on...and pretty soon there could be a smartphone app for that as well," Bridgwater writes.