WEB BASED EMPLOYEE SELF SERVICE

Employee self-service (ESS) is a web based resources that enable employees to view their personal payroll, benefits, personal detail and leave information.  It also act as a win-win propositions for organizations and employees.  It allows employees to access and change their personal data like home address, salary and also their contact details.  ESS also allow employees to apply for a leave directed to the employee’s manager for consideration. 

Through the web based employee self-service (ESS), employees can view some information such as job profile, home address, salary, payroll taxes, insurance, savings and retirement  and also vacation as well as sick leave balances.  Besides that, there are some information that employees can change and update by using ESS like home address, direct deposits and also emergency contact information. 

There are some advantages that the organization get when using ESS.  This include improve the speed and quality of the services to the employees and managers.  ESS also help employees to review their personal data in anytime and anywhere whether at home or at workplace.  They also do not need to wait for the HR to call them to update their personal details.  Apart from that, ESS also enhance employee satisfaction by allowing them to control when and where access activities occur.  This will empowers employees and will increase their productivity especially for the workers who like privacy about their personal detail. 

In addition, direct deposit checking accounts are updated and change privately by using ESS.  However, if there are some errors are made to entries, employers and HR have records that shows who made the error.  It also facilitate in accessing the HR information like company’s policy and also help employees to ensure that the important personal data are accurate and current such as individual performance appraisals used by the manager in making decision about the increase in their salary and other rewards. 

ESS also make it easier for the HR to run reports on an employee records.  This is because employees have already update their current personal data or anything that the company want in the web based employee self-service.  Besides helping employees to review their personal data, ESS also can reduce the number of transactions for HR employees as well as the overall cost of HR.  This happen because by using web based application only fewer cost needed to change employee information , posting jobs and providing current pay compared by using manual tool which causes the organization to hire more workers.

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