The benefits of fleet telematics for safety, productivity, and efficiency have been spoken about a lot. What is often overlooked is how useful telematics is to HR teams.
Telematics can provide invaluable information for your HR team. This includes areas such as driver training, employee contracts, and job specs.
Here we'll explore how using telematics in HR can make that department's lives considerably easier. Which means you as a company will be better equipped to foster a positive work culture.
Improved Driver Training and Education
The HR department is usually in charge of staff training and enhancement. This is one area in which fleet telematics is becoming crucial. The information gathered from your systems can assist drivers in consistently advancing their abilities and safety. HR personnel can utilise the data as a discussion topic, or a standard that drivers can aim to surpass.
For instance, telematics data can be used to identify specific areas where drivers may need improvement, such as harsh braking or acceleration patterns. HR can then tailor training programs to address these specific issues, leading to safer driving practices and reduced accidents on the road.
Managing Driver-Related Finances
HR departments often work with accounts and their duties may overlap. Fleet telematics provide important information like hours driven, miles travelled, fuel used, and overtime hours.
HR can use telematics data to assess wages and forecast salary increases. They can use the data collected from telematics systems to accurately calculate driver pay, create accurate timesheets, and make financial predictions. By analysing this data, HR can find patterns that help predict salary increases based on performance, productivity, and other key factors.
Information for Disciplinary Action
Ideally, you should seldom conduct disciplinary hearings with your drivers. We understand how tension-filled and unsettling they can be! However, in case the need emerges, telematics data will undoubtedly be incredibly beneficial. Whether it's by providing evidence or as a means of helping staff to recognise and rectify their errors.
Updating Employee Policies and Contracts
One of the essential duties of HR is to create contracts of employment. If this isn't done correctly, it can lead to uncertainty, job dissatisfaction, and a high employee turnover rate. Fleet telematics data can be utilised to better match these documents with the actual job role. Without reliable data on which to base a contract, an organisation can end up seeming less transparent than they aspire to be!
Creating Job Specs for New Driver Roles
Employee turnover is inevitable and necessary to some degree.
Information from telematics systems can help create detailed job descriptions. For example, HR can gather data on how far employees drive each day, where they go most often, and how much city driving they do.
Including this data in job postings will give potential employees a clearer idea of what the job entails. This can help new hires adjust more easily and stay with the company longer.
The Most Overlooked Digital HR Tool
By helping your HR staff with fleet telematics data, you can boost their reach and improve your business. This data helps them ensure drivers are well taken care of, skilled, and motivated. It can also help with managing finances related to drivers and improve job descriptions for future hires. Ultimately, it helps you find the right person for the job.
However, telematics is still often seen as solely a tool for transport managers. While telematics might be invaluable to the transport department, it is also an extremely powerful tool for HR. Or, at least, it can be- when you’re working with a fully integrated, sophisticated telematics system.
