Top 15 HR Automation Case Studies in Different Sectors [2024]
Disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) can dramatically reduce the time spent on repetitive and non-strategic HR tasks. However, according to PwC’s HR technology survey, one of the top reasons preventing HR leaders from adopting these technologies is the lack of compelling use cases.1
Finding out how other companies are using and benefiting from new technologies can help you find use cases for your business. Thus, we have compiled 15 HR automation case studies from companies that have implemented intelligent automation, and tips for selecting a vendor.
What are some examples of HR automation case studies?
Below is a list of HR automation case studies and examples that we’ve compiled from different vendors:
Customer | Customer Country | Customer Industry | Vendor | Application Area / Use Case | Benefit Type | Benefit Details | URL | Summary |
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A multinational business consultant | Global | Professional Services | Infosys | Recruitment | Time saving | -The average handling time in the process has reduced by
55%.
| Infosys | The average handling time of the recruitment process has reduced
by 55% resulting in quicker processing and better turn-around time.
|
An electronics supply manufacturer | Global | Manufacturing | NICE | Access management | Time saving | -5000 hours saved across solutions already in production. -124 hours saved annually by fully automating ticket generation. | NICE | Granting access to different systems had required tedious back-end processing
before automation. The project resulted in almost complete automation.
|
BAE Systems | United Kingdom | Aerospace | Automation Anywhere | Payroll processing | Time saving | -7x faster payroll data upload. | Automation Anywhere | The company has automated 50 processes, saving more than 2,600
hours annually, and benefiting from 7x faster payroll data upload.
|
Banque Internationale à Luxembourg | Luxembourg | Financial Services | Blue Prism | Employee assistance | Efficiency increase | -49 digital workers handles 60 processes working across the organization. | Blue Prism | The company has transferred 60 processes to digital workers, resulting
in a 100% return on investment.
|
Central England Co-operative | United Kingdom | Retail | Blue Prism | Regulatory compliance | Time saving | -Digital workers have processed and cleared more than 10,000 old
employee records.
| Blue Prism | According to UK regulations, after a colleague leaves, the employer
must maintain their records for seven years, after which it must immediately delete them. Digital workers have cleared 10,000 employee records, freeing up employees' time for more productive tasks.
|
Coca-Cola | Global | Food and Beverages | Blue Prism | HR audit | Time saving | -16 extra hours added to every workday. | Blue Prism | The company has automated more than 50 processes across multiple
SAP systems, increasing the data that could be audited to 100%.
|
Dell | Global | Information Technology | Automation Anywhere | Recruitment | Efficiency increase | -HR productivity has increased by up to 85%. | Automation Anywhere | The company wanted to remove the transactional work for end-to-end
processes such as its open requisition recruiter assignments, onboarding process reminders and status updates. Automation of 30 processes resulted in 85% efficiency gain HR operations.
|
Health Service Executive (HSE) | Ireland | Healthcare | UiPath | Employee vetting | Time saving | -Automation decreased the time required for employee vetting from 5
days to 1 hour.
| UiPath | 20,000 checks being needed to be completed every year for
new employees, which is a vital, yet time-consuming task. RPA reduced the time for employee vetting from 5 days to 1 hour.
|
IBM | Global | Information Technology | IBM | Employee promotions | Time saving | -IBM saved 12,000 hours in one quarter from automation manual
tasks. -HR team could complete work that takes 10 weeks previously in 5 weeks. | IBM | Collecting data on 15,000 – 17,000 employees to distribute promotions
in a fair and timely manner was time and labor-intensive. IBM Watson Orchestrate enabled IBM HR team to save 12,000 hours in one quarter and reduce the time to complete processing promotions from 10 weeks to 5 weeks.
|
Lenovo | Global | Manufacturing | UiPath | Payroll processing | Time saving | -The employees' time to submit expenses decreased to 10% of
what it was before automation. -HR team saves at least 6,000 hours per year. | UiPath | Manual and time consuming tasks in individual income-tax declaration, reimbursement
of business expenses, and payroll accounting were automated and the HR team has saved 6,000 hours per year.
|
NGA Human Resources | United Kingdom | Human Resources Services | Automation Anywhere | Access management | Time saving | -23 processes migrated to RPA. | Automation Anywhere | The company transferred 23 processes to RPA, and this efficiency
gain has reduced the need for virtual machines by 50%.
|
Provident Financial Romania | Romania | Financial Services | UiPath | Recruitment | Time saving | -10K hours saved each year | UiPath | 3 robots automating 10 business processes in HR and Finance
helped the company save 10,000 hours a year.
|
Santander | Spain | Financial Services | Blue Prism | Onboarding | Time saving | -Onboarding new employees now take 2 days which was 6
weeks before automation.
| Blue Prism | Onboarding process was taking 6 weeks before automation, and with
50 to 100 new employees start each month, the challenge quickly compounded. Automation decreased that time to 2 days.
|
SSCL | United Kingdom | Public Sector | UiPath | Recruitment | Time saving | -6 processes are automated within 3 weeks | UiPath | Before the automation of the recruitment process, all applicants came
into a central line-of-business system for processing, which required significant manual work for employees and slowed up the recruitment process. The new UiPath robot extracts data from the required systems and transfers this vital information into several different downloadable reports that are available to the client's recruiting team each morning before they start work.
|
Swedish Public Employment Service | Sweden | Public Sector | UiPath | Employee administration | Efficiency increase | -HR team can manage 100% of employee tickets which was
around 2% before automation.
| UiPath | Automating the employee ticket handling process enabled HR team to
increase the tickets managed from 2% to 100%.
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Getting started with HR automation
You probably use several software systems for managing your HR processes. That forces you to consider the following factors when selecting an intelligent automation solution for your business:
- Integration capabilities with all existing applications in your HR software stack,
- Scalability,
- Cognitive capabilities that you need, such as document processing or conversational AI.
Check our article on HR automation to learn more about how to assess vendors in the HR automation landscape. For intelligent automation tools, read our comprehensive article that explores different vendors’ capabilities.
For more on HR automation
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You can also read our articles on the automation of HR tasks such as:
- Recruiting AI
- Employee Onboarding Automation
- Payroll Automation
- Absence Management Automation
- Employee Offboarding Automation
If you have other questions about HR automation, we can help:
External Links
- 1. “2022 HR Tech Survey.” PwC. 3 February 2022. Accessed 25 November 2022.
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He led technology strategy and procurement of a telco while reporting to the CEO. He has also led commercial growth of deep tech company Hypatos that reached a 7 digit annual recurring revenue and a 9 digit valuation from 0 within 2 years. Cem's work in Hypatos was covered by leading technology publications like TechCrunch and Business Insider.
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