KnowHR grew out of a couple simple ideas - pay decisions are abdicated and turnover is backbreaking. Here's what we talked about:
- The peanut butter approach to pay. Thousands of managers spend tens of thousands of hours each year working on merit budgets and increases. To what end? Great performers get 3.1 percent increases while spotty performers get 2.9 percent increases. And nobody's happy. That's what we call the peanut butter approach to pay increases. Smear pay increases evenly across everyone. It's the easy way out for managers. But it is also what drives top performers to take the easy way out… out the door.
- Why'd they go? You gotta know. Your most valuable assets walk out the door every night. And every day, some of them don't come back. Which means your revolving door keeps spinning: recruit-train-say goodbye, recruit-train-say goodbye. You need to know why your people are leaving. You need to know it now. And it's gotta be easy.
So, we worked on a set of simple fixes. Simple online tools. Tools that model. Tools that measure. Tools that analyze. Tools that communicate. Designed to be so simple that the excuse Our managers can't do that is obsolete. As we say: People are complicated. Your HR tools shouldn't be.
And it's not just people who are complex - HR processes can be complicated too. So we've added a few extras - knowBenefits, knowStatements, knowPlanB - and we're continuing to build tools that simplify your life. At its heart, knowHR is all about simplicity. Let's leave the complexity to human behavior.
The KnowHR Suite
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Quick jumps to the KnowHR modules
- Know Pay
- If you think people don't work for money, see what happens when you stop paying them.
- KnowTurnover
- If you lost a twenty, you'd retrace your steps. If you lost your keys, you'd look for them.
- KnowStatements
- Remind employees 24/7 all the things you do for them.
- Know Plan B
- Nobody plans to fail, they just fail to plan.
- KnowPerformance
- Performance reviews come once a year, but manager feedback is needed 365 times as often.
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Consumers as a whole want simple and reliable things they understand.
- Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO, Netflix
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
- Hans Hofmann
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacker
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
- Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO, Netflix
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
- Hans Hofmann
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacker
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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by FrankRoche
I'm a partner at iFractal LLC, where KnowHR was created. I specialize in organizational communication and have worked with some of the biggest and mos...
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