An Employee Portal, sometimes known as an HR Portal, is an online employee engagement platform that puts a range of HR services at the employee’s fingertips. From providing employees with access to helpful HR content and self-service functionality that answers their questions, to Live Chat and case tracking, an Employee Portal enhances the employee service experience, which increases employee satisfaction and engagement levels. It is also a communications and change management tool, enabling HR to effectively engage with their employees and support the management of change and development within the organization. Additional benefits include increased workforce productivity and greater efficiency of HR operations.

Diagram 1 - Dovetail Multi-Tiered HR Service Delivery Operating Model

HR Service Delivery is the HR function responsible for providing employees and line managers with a wide range of services, including (among many others) payroll processing, employee benefits and onboarding. 

Do you use an HR Case Management or HR Helpdesk tool to enable HR to deliver services to your employees? Are you benefiting from the HR Service Level Agreements (SLA) functionality that these systems provide? If not, you are missing an opportunity to improve services for your employees and increase HR productivity.

In our previous post we mentioned how our senior leadership team have been focused on three key objectives. Towards that initiative here are the 10 ways Dovetail has improved HR Service Delivery over the past 12 months for our customers:

Today we are excited to announce the launch of our new company website and HR Blog. The new Dovetail website is part of a wider initiative that started internally here in September 2018. The focus of the program revolves around three key objectives: