{"id":2485,"date":"2020-02-21T12:13:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T12:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2020-02-21T12:13:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T12:13:48","slug":"how-hr-robotics-can-be-good-for-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/how-hr-robotics-can-be-good-for-people\/","title":{"rendered":"How HR robotics can be good for people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By SA Mathieson<\/p>\n<p>Organisations can use software-based robotic process automation (RPA) to make staffing cuts, but this is not the style favoured by Norwegian hairdressing chain Cutters.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which started with one salon in Bergen in December 2015, had 92 in five countries by the end of 2019. It offers 15-minute haircuts at a fixed price of NOK299 (about \u00a325) in Norway, about half the usual price. This means taking a buzz-cut to overheads, with just 25 of the company\u2019s nearly 500 staff not working as hairdressers.<\/p>\n<p>Cutters initially got the manager of each salon to work out shift patterns. \u201cIt was OK for the first 30 salons,\u201d says chief digital officer B\u00e5rd Str\u00f8m, but the company reckoned it could do better centrally. \u201cWe saw that we could use RPA to add capacity,\u201d said Str\u00f8m.<\/p>\n<p>Read More &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/feature\/How-HR-robotics-can-be-good-for-people\">https:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/feature\/How-HR-robotics-can-be-good-for-people<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SA Mathieson Organisations can use software-based robotic process automation (RPA) to make staffing cuts, but this is not the style favoured by Norwegian hairdressing chain Cutters. The company, which started with one salon in Bergen in December 2015, had 92 in five countries by the end of 2019. It offers 15-minute haircuts at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[372],"tags":[642],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-robotics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/robot.jpeg?fit=318%2C159&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vlXG-E5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1271,"url":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/heres-a-round-up-of-major-hr-tech-news-in-july-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":2485,"position":0},"title":"Here\u2019s a round-up of major HR tech news in July 2018","author":"admin","date":"August 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The month of July opened with news from Oracle and Future Workplace announcing, based on survey of 1320 US based HR leaders and employees, 93% were ready to trust orders from robots but organizations seem to be doing too little in this area. 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