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Performance Review or Performance Appraisal is a commonly used method by a company’s management in order to track employee performance in work tasks over a certain period of time.

In addition to tracking and "measuring" performance, a performance review also focuses on setting goals, providing feedback, identifying weaknesses vs. strengths, and developing employee skills. Currently, there is a need for more frequent and reduced dimensions evaluations where the manager's focus is on providing immediate and continuous feedback to the employee (Read more).

Oraroo facilitates the entire Performance Appraisal process from the perspective of a formal review and also punctually throughout the period for which the appraisal is carried out.

HR departments have always faced the difficulties of managing files and documents in physical form. However, the current digitization trends open up new ways of simplification in this area.

In Oraroo can be generated administrative documents (eg. certificates, contracts, etc.), based on a predefined template, for a larger number of employees at the same time – ”bulk” generation of documents.

 Performance Review or Performance appraisal is a valuable tool for the management of a company. Due to it, a manager can track, maintain and develope the work performance of an employee over a period of time.

By definition, performance appraisal has three basic functions:

1. To provide adequate feedback to each person on his or her performance;
2. To serve as a basis for modifying or changing behavior toward more effective working habits;
3. To provide data to managers with which they may judge future job assignments and compensation.

The COVID-19 pandemic situation has significantly impacted most professional areas globally. As a result, new challenges and concerns have appeared on companies` ”to do list”, challenges that are closely related to the transfer of workplace activities from the real plan of a traditional office to a digital plan of a home one.

Therefore, in addition to the concrete changes related to the way that employees were supposed to fulfill their tasks at work in this new situation, their ability to adapt, their work engagement and social skills are just some of the psychological aspects that were challenged too.

There are 248 working days in 2023. The average working days per month is about 21 working days. Out of 15 legal holidays, 12 are non-working days. The number of working days in a year are useful for purposes of planning activities within the company. They are also very important for accurate estimates or calculations of revenues and costs. The calculation formula is based on various categories of days. These are calendar days 2023, rest days and days off 2023 (paid days off, respectively public holidays).

No system will always be the perfect solution. Over time, deficiencies in a solution begin to become apparent. When they have become obvious, is time to seriously consider a new solution. Clarifying your organization's requirements, evaluating alternatives, choosing a solution, and making an implementation decision is a process that requires time and involvement. In implementation it matters how you manage data change and migration, as well as the implementation team.

In order to maintain the balance between professional and personal life, as well as being included in the budgets, working overtime is an exceptional solution. The usual way of rewarding is through paid free hours. Managing these types of recoveries manually is difficult. Oraroo helps you explicitly and transparently manage the overtime flow, but also recoveries, easily made for the employee and manager. The integration with the Projects timesheets allows triggering the direct flow from project management.

The pandemic has accelerated the widespread adoption of technological developments and changed the concept of work with social impact. The large-scale feasibility of working outside the office has been demonstrated. This pattern remains up to date and will be maintained even after the health situation is resolved. The flexibility of work widely adopted lately refers to the work schedule or the place of work. In addition to productivity, it brings employee satisfaction and loyalty

Establishing the place of work of the employees is an operational need as well as an obligation of conformity. A collection and centralization process based on calculation sheets and manual control inherently generates data errors, as well as constraints in consulting this information. Oraroo structures the process of collecting this data, can take into account the capacity of the workspace (hybrid work models) and automates the access to information by providing visibility to the entire team.

For employees, the process of processing expense reports is not always known or clear. Finance teams frequently receive expense reports with filling errors, and approvals and processing require a lot of manual effort. Automation is the best solution for both categories of process participants. Not even the best spending policy can prevent bills from being a bit of a hassle. But managing the process successfully with an app can make things much less painful.

Look at the project invoice as another service that your service company provides to clients. This is how you make sure that the invoices related to the projects are as good as the services you provided. Integrated digital solutions for workflow automation, project tracking and invoicing support accurate, complete and timely invoicing processes. Sloppy invoices with mistakes are bad for a business. Accurate, clear invoices tell customers that the company values professionalism.

The organizational chart graphically presents the roles, responsibilities and working relationships between the organizational structures. Their composition is detailed in the digital version of the function chart. All structures are visible in such a way that each employee can know in what way he is part of the teams or the entire organization. And you, as a manager, have the whole picture in one place. Oraroo allows the creation of these structures with flexibility and, at the same time, in accordance with legal requirements.

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Bucharest, 1.11.2021

With the growth of the business comes the need to unify the way projects are managed in the company: operations, business or human resources. Crowe Romania will achieve this goal using a single platform: Oraroo, simplifying and automating time-consuming operational processes. Thus, Crowe has an integrated operational management tool to optimize profitability, improve customer relations and workforce management.

Knowing the real costs and profitability of each project is the key to making optimal decisions and increasing profits. A well-organized record of project expenses and the integration of indirect costs into projects are necessary. An integrated approach to projects, with project expenses and internal costs with employees, allows tracking profitability per project. The integration of invoicing allows the recording and re-invoicing of project expenses on contracts.

Expense reports are considered, in general, purely accounting issues. But when the flow of processing expense reports in the company is difficult, involves paper forms with many unclear rules, or often causes a lot of headache for employees, it becomes an HR topic. If it impacts morale and lowers productivity, it must matter to HR. And if it's creating financial problems for employees, it's definitely a human resources problem.

The employee’s file contains all the information related to his professional life in your company. It’s harder to find the data you need in the physical file. Instead, in electronic format you can always do a search and get the result immediately. The information is already in the system, and you have access to it anytime, from anywhere, very easy, secure and fast. The integrated approach means that the file is always updated with new documents generated in HR streams. Less work for you!

Invoicing for consultants' work should be simple and transparent. At the same time, it has the greatest impact on the sustainability of the business. It is necessary to structure the process and supervise the steps of the process – creation, verification, adjustment, approval and sending of invoices. Specialized solutions must offer flexibility for an efficient process of examination and approval of invoices, which will stimulate responsibility and provide sufficient control and accuracy.

Payroll is an activity that involves considerable effort on the part of Human Resources officials, as it is sometimes necessary to consult and verify several sources. We have facilitated this journey by creating functionality in the Oraroo platform, which automates this process. The timekeeping is completed automatically, based on the working hours of the employees and the leave requests added and approved by the managers in the system. It can be exported in Excel format directly from the platform, depending on the month for which the data is to be verified.

Spreadsheets are very easy to use and flexible. But companies tend to push spreadsheets beyond their limits. And these become too difficult to manage. A specialized online platform brings processes based on best practices, updated with legislative changes and a single version of the "truth". It also facilitates the collaborative work of teams and reduces the effort with data maintenance. It is the solution for businesses that are ready to grow and need automation.

Project timesheet allows the team and project managers to get an overview of the use of working time in an intuitive manner. Periodically filling out the timesheet allows the updating of cost information and facilitates the efficient management of project delivery. For an efficient billing service having the correct completed timesheet is needed. Performing periodic analysis of timesheets can highlight efficiency and automation opportunities but also lays the groundwork for future resource estimates.

A hybrid work model combines in varying proportions office and remote work. Companies are experimenting with different combinations of on-site and remote working. Between the full office work model and the full remote work model there are several variants of hybrid models. So far, 5 types of hybrid work models have emerged as dominant variants. Evaluate your own situation and choose one of them

Are you considering the idea of working remotely, but not sure if it is the complete solution? During the pandemic, the team worked from home and are you thinking of giving up the office for good? But you seem to have some reservations. However, it sounds like your employees are enjoying their way of working from home.

If you find yourself in these challenges, we have summarized for you the essential elements for choosing your new hybrid work model.

The "product" of professional service providers is a service. The realization of the service is based on the time and expertise of the people. It is integrated with the bidding, pricing and invoicing part. It is the basis of the definition of the project activities corresponding to the delivery of the services that are part of the contracts associated with the projects. It integrates the commercial with the delivery. Oraroo responds to these specifications and offers a catalog of services completely adapted to consulting and outsourcing companies.

The implementation of a system for the management of operations, projects and human resources management is a good opportunity for developing the processes of Knowledge Management and Governance & Data Management. For the commercial, operational and HR areas, these processes ensure the organizing, structure and good functioning of the business in a controlled, efficient and profitable manner. The same processes represent the assurance of obtaining the results following the investment in the digital tools of work management

The evaluation of the maturity of HR processes facilitates a critical analysis of the actual situation, using the dimensions of the proposed maturity model. Their optimization increases the operational efficiency of the company and adds value to the business. By digitizing HR processes, basic workforce tasks can be automated and more time can be allocated to strategy and growth. Digital transformation in HR helps companies become resilient and bring competitive advantage.

Every manager of a consulting team tries to improve and maintain high billable usage. Each consultant is, at least partially, evaluated and compensated for hours used and invoiced. Obtaining visibility on billable usage or calculation mode based on manual processing is a challenge. Oraroo provides the ability to easily calculate, manage and track usage (hours used) and billability (billable hours, billable hours) metrics for you as a manager to make profitable decisions.

The workforce is opting to work from home as a choice rather than a necessity. Business management of companies is more based on results. Managers place more value on demonstrable skills. This change leads to orientation towards remote working models and working with external resources. The needs to integrate external resources into operations are different. Sometimes collaborators can even be considered interns. Other times, the collaborations are smaller, even occasional

Generating documents based on templates is a specialist help – when an employee requests a document, you have it at hand. This allows you to focus on what is really important in your business. The functionality offered by the Oraroo platform meets the need for efficiency for human resources managers. Ease and speed of completion saves time and eliminates errors.