Basic HR Systems
HR can be an enormously paper-intensive process. For example, just recruiting and hiring an employee might require a Notice of Available Position, a help wanted advertising listing, an employment application, an inter- viewing checklist, and a telephone reference checklist. You then need an employ- ment agreement, a confidentiality and noncompete agreement, and a hiring authorization form and employee background verification. To keep track of the employee once he or she is on board, you'd need-just to start-an employee change form, personnel data sheet, and daily or weekly time records. Then come the performance appraisal forms, notice of probation, and dozens of other, similar forms and this list doesn't even scratch the surface. Where do forms and systems like these come from? For a start-up business, office supply stores such as Office Depot and officeMax sell paper-and-pencil forms. For example, Office Depot sells packages of individual personnel forms, including an employment application, performance evaluation, and weekly