Simplify employee relations case management with cloud-based HR technology
Empower your team with proactive HR case management to save costs, mitigate risks, and achieve better ROI. Ready to discover how you can transform your business with empower®?
empower® simplifies employee relations case management processes
Our award-winning HR software gives HR and line managers easy access to the right employee relations case management tools, making it easier than ever to track and manage cases securely and effectively. Your team leaders become empowered to make important decisions, driving employee engagement, productivity, risk management, and data-driven strategic planning. Book a discovery call to learn more.
“It’s so intuitive. It’s built around how HR advice is actually provided. We’re not fitting around the software; the software fits around us”.
Ann Haydock, Head of HR Advisory Services, Iceland Foods
Unlock substantial hidden savings for your organisation
Find out how much you could be saving by digitally transforming your employee relations (ER) processes.
Looking to take your team’s productivity to the next level?
Empower them with award-winning case management software for employee relations
Experience the transformative power of our award-winning case management software, seamlessly enhancing productivity and communication through real-time updates and notifications, while empowering your team to achieve unprecedented efficiency. From tracking case progress to managing sickness absence, grievances and disciplinary actions, our solution revolutionises the way you manage HR cases elevating your organisation’s performance.
Equipped with advanced HR technology, your team can work smarter, improve efficiency, and deliver exceptional service to clients. By automating tasks and reducing errors, you’ll see better returns on your investment.
Simplify your HR processes
Simplify your business operations by moving away from ticketing systems and Excel spreadsheets. Streamlined workflows eliminate manual, outdated tasks, making employee relations case management more straightforward. This empowers managers to access information, complete tasks, and resolve common employee issues without HR intervention, all within a user-friendly system.
Proactive case resolution
Take charge of potential people issues early on with specialised tools designed by industry experts with over 25 years experience in the industry. Leverage data and insights to enhance decision-making, streamline processes, and efficiently handle any people matters or concerns. This creates a positive work environment which equips your organisation to navigate economic challenges successfully.
Maximise the ROI of HR
Leverage innovative HR tech to automate routine tasks, free up HR time, and boost productivity. Enable proactive conversations in areas like sickness absence, reducing absenteeism and costs. Utilise data insights for resource allocation, enhance the employee experience with self-service features, and mitigate risks through compliance tracking. Experience the benefits: an engaged workforce, cost savings, and reduced HR dependency.
Enhance business agility
Empower managers with self-service tools around the clock to enable quick responses to business demands and challenges, even outside of HR’s availability. This strategy guarantees that your business stays adaptable and responsive, prepared to seize market changes and emerging prospects, ultimately boosting employee engagement and ensuring long-term success.
Prevent HR burnout
Transform your management approach to enable your organisation to streamline processes and enhances efficiency which plays a crucial role in reducing HR burnout. By automating repetitive tasks and providing tools for streamlined case management and employee support, HR professionals can allocate more time to what they are truly passionate about: supporting the organisation’s people strategy.
Reduce risk & tribunal claims
Support your managers with secure guidance and automated tools to confidently handle people matters, minimising errors and empowering them to address people matters before involving HR. Case documentation is securely stored, ensuring compliance and safeguarding the organisation against risks. Automated workflows and templates simplify processes, and reduce case cycle times while mitigating the risk of siloed data.
Case management
At the core of AdviserPlus’s empower® technology is a powerful, purpose-built employee relations (ER) case management solution, crafted to streamline and elevate the work of ER advisers and their support teams.
With empower®, organisations can configure case management to reflect their own unique policies and processes, ensuring every step follows a clear, sequential structure and that crucial data is always captured. This efficient framework enables ER advisers to handle more cases without compromising quality, allowing them to focus on what they do best—providing exceptional advice.
Digital guided journeys
empower®‘s digital guided journeys transform employee relations management for line managers, offering a structured, step-by-step process that builds confidence, consistency and clarity. Through intuitive guidance that’s aligned with your company’s values and goals, real-time notifications, and embedded coaching, guided journeys ensure managers always know the next best step to take.
With proactive prompts and seamless support from ER advisers when needed, digital guided journeys empower managers to handle ER matters independently, reduce risk, and create stronger employee connections.
By simplifying complex processes and balancing case ownership, risk and oversight, digital guided journeys turn line managers into skilled people managers, driving better outcomes across your organisation.
Document creation
Our document creation functionality in empower® automates employee relations processes to facilitate clear and timely correspondence. The platform seamlessly generates letters from templates, integrating employee relations case data for accuracy.
- Generate auto-populated HR templates to swiftly create tailored documents for each case, ensuring consistency and compliance.
- Implement timely action triggers to facilitate efficient collaboration between managers and HR, ensuring consistency and compliance.
- Support the production of case-related documentation, such as activating a letter trigger for sickness absence.
Find out how our HR case management tools benefited our customers
Wickes case study
empower® transformed employee relations for a leading UK home improvement retailer, Wickes, with actionable insights. They achieved a remarkable 50% reduction in tribunal claims and their transformation won the Digital HR and Technology Award at the 2023 Personnel Today Awards.
Currys case study
empower® has facilitated 88% of all tasks related to managing employee relations to be self-served by line managers. Line manager empowerment was achieved within 3 months of launch and with more time to focus on strategy, HR was able to complete an Equality Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy overhaul.
Sainsbury's case study
Over a 12-month period, line managers successfully managed 63% of employee relations cases without HR intervention. 70% of short-term sickness cases are now self-served with automated tasks and alerts, ensuring a proactive approach to sickness absence management, improving efficiency and reducing the cost of sickness management.
Frequently asked questions
Transforming employee relations involves implementing strategies and practices aimed at creating positive relationships between employers and employees, with responsibilities shared among HR professionals and line managers.
Managers are often promoted for their technical knowledge rather than their people management skills, and training in this part of their role is often inadequate. A vital part of any transformation strategy is to ensure line managers are provided with the resources, training and support to manage people effectively.
This can include implementing dedicated employee relations technology – such as empower® – to simplify your people processes. By enhancing manager capability, empowering them to self-serve employee relations matters, such as grievances, disciplinary procedures and sickness absences, organisations can drive a positive culture as managers become more confident and effective people leaders. Find out how we can help support accidental managers here.
With empower®, you gain valuable tools for transforming workforce data into strategic advantages. empower® provides visibility of people metrics such as sickness absence rates, patterns in grievance and disciplinary matters, and case resolution times, into comprehensive, user-friendly HR analytics dashboards that help you to easily identify insights within large data sets.
You can view high level case metrics, break down activity into trends, events and outcomes and even drill down to line-by-line detail in employee relations cases.
empower® utilises this data to provide you with internal benchmarking, revealing comparisons and contrasts between elements of your organisation, so HR leaders can proactively identify and address problems. This highlights areas for improvement in conflict resolution, communication, and overall employee satisfaction.
With the dashboards refreshed as frequently as daily, as well as insights into problem areas in the organisation, you have real-time visibility of key people metrics at your fingertips to inform your decisions and HR strategy. Find out more here.
By utilising the data and people insights you get from empower®, you gain valuable tools for transforming workforce data into strategic advantages. Our external benchmarking capabilities enable comparisons with similar organisations, helping you evaluate your context against industry standards. This empowers you to develop targeted strategies that improve case management processes and outcomes, driving positive business change.
Our team of expert insight analysts analyse your employee relations case management data to uncover valuable insights to enable you to identify emerging trends. They also provide actionable insights and can help you to identify the root cause of issues that may be exacerbating issues such as grievances, disciplinary procedures, and performance issues, enabling proactive interventions to enhance employee relations.
We appreciate that HR teams are under more pressure than ever to find cost savings, without impacting their delivery. Achieving these cost savings and providing strategic value comes through working practices that have efficiency at their heart.
empower® enables you to fully digitalise employee relations case management, moving away from emails, spreadsheets and paper trails. This enables you to securely interact with managers, ensure that processes are being followed in a timely way and significantly reduce the risk of expensive non-compliance.
With empower®, managers self-serve employee relations issues within a controlled and supportive framework, reducing employee relations case advisory costs by up to 65% and reducing the amount of time HR teams spend on routine matters, enabling them to focus on strategic, added value activities. Find out more here.
Improving compliance and reducing risk are essential to protect your business from significant distraction, unbudgeted costs and reputational damage.
Ensuring that there is confidence in the application of policy and processes, that employee relations policies are well understood and not overly complex, and that there is a consistent application of processes across your organisation can all improve compliance and reduce risk.
empower® aligns with your policies to reduce the risk of misapplication and non-application of your processes. Managers and HR alike are guided through employee relations processes to ensure compliance at every step of the way. Find out more here.
empower® is configurable and handles this with ease:
- We can either configure different processes relating to the same policy, or branch a process to handle more subtle nuances. We can also ensure that a manager navigates the right process and views the appropriate content aligned to the employee case subject.
- We can host different views of the content and configuration in different brands, and ensure that users view the solution in the appropriate brand for them.
We have designed empower® to support an HR transformation journey and we recognise that each organisation starts in a different place in terms of its confidence in giving managers control of cases. We fully expect the configuration of the service will evolve as your:
- HR strategy changes;
- HR service operating model evolves; and
- Line managers show greater confidence and capability in managing people matters independently of HR.
We work in partnership with you to make sure we evolve the configuration of the system over time to support these aims. Such change is quick and easy to achieve.
There are multiple ways businesses can choose to empower managers. Equipping them with the right digital guided journeys, for example, and ‘in the moment’ knowledge and guidance to enable them to self-serve more employee relations matters in a confident, consistent way. This not only frees up HR to focus on more strategic goals, but improves employee relations by giving managers, those closest to their teams, the capability and confidence to oversee employee relations cases in real-time.
empower® provides managers with digital guided journeys and support so they’re able to navigate people matters at any time in a way that’s compliant with regulations and your policies. Find out more here.
empower® is typically accessed via a form of single sign-on (SSO) for optimum user experience.
We support most forms of SSO, including SAML 2.0 and AD. If, for any reason, you are unable to set up SSO, we can provide access through manual login (username and password).
Find out more about how empower® connects with your technology, here.
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