Are spreadsheets losing its utility to analytics?

Are spreadsheets losing its utility to analytics?

From serious faces to fun parties, HR has enough clichés linked with HR’s role. Even though it is true or not, this is a well-known office rumor. The HR cliché is perceived as work from spreadsheet to spreadsheet. The spreadsheet has always been the standard management tool for HR professionals all around the world, from the introduction of VisiCalc in the 1970s to SuperCalc, Multiplan, Lotus 1-2-3, and most recently Microsoft Excel.

Many think spreadsheets are a blessing. If the company is small, then there is not much complexity involved. The most used spreadsheet is MS Excel which is free, but as the organization grows, proper paper records of attendance payroll or leave management should be maintained on a large scale.

For a while, this managerial strategy is effective. However, HR procedures also develop and grow as small and medium-sized enterprises scale up and extend their operations. Spreadsheets struggle to provide the data and analytics the organization may require in real-time or otherwise as HR activities get more complex. Calculation and analytic tools that were once simple to use and adaptable would gradually become unreliable and prone to serious mistakes.

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The inefficiency of spreadsheets

1. Poor control restrictions

A spreadsheet is dependent on the user's skill and familiarity with how to use view, and modify it. There is no firewall so files can only be viewed by managers or selected personnel. If alterations arise, data is vulnerable to overwriting and files get to the email chain and there are chances to get corrupted.

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2. To humans is to err‍

Large organizations manage complex and enormous calculations on spreadsheets, and human errors are bound to happen. Also if several people use the spreadsheet, the chances of manipulation are high.

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3. Slows down decision-making‍

Getting data on spreadsheets is just the first step but analyzing spreadsheets requires a long time. The bulk of decisions taken is overwhelming. With tasks like report preparation, processing information, and making analysis, the process needs a lot of time to analyze and an unclear way to make quick decision making.

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4. Doesn’t support automatic reporting‍

The manual intervention of standard reports can be dealt with while delivering daily reports on a consistent basis. Sometimes sending manual emails is the only way to reach the right minds.

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5. Unreliable for scalability and accuracy‍

Having a large team of HR personnel can reduce results. As the working of business and HR management become more collaborative, spreadsheets become unreliable databases for error-free information.‍

However, it's true that free, widely accessible, and user-friendly spreadsheet tools have been a huge help for small businesses, which led to more popularity.

The familiarity and comfort are also harmful to the company. It is not capable of handling a change of HR procedure or personnel, also considering the case of the majority of the workforce working remotely.

HR needs to quicken its process. Once paper records were switched to spreadsheets, the time arrived to completely transition to cloud-based people analytics solutions.

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