A week after the publication of our lists dedicated specifically to digital recruitment in the Hexagon, here is our list dedicated more broadly to the French tech most innovative in HR in 2018.
As a sign of this dynamic HR transformation, Paris&Co launched in early summer 2017 an incubator dedicated to HR startups: RHIZOME. In 2018, this one will support more than 1,000 new businesses.
That's why we observed, analyzed and selected the 20 most promising companies in this rapidly (r)evolving sector.
Collaborator experience and quality of work life highlighted
Driven by digital-related changes, companies are witnessing the emergence of new ways of working and new (and legitimate) demands from employees.
So many startups have popped up with their share of innovations to support HR in this transformation.
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Find out about the20 French companies, divided into 7distinct categories, which represent, according to our editors, HR innovation in 2018.
4 - Serious Gaming
What are these companies redesigning the HR world in 2018?
Category: Employee Experience
Companies are placing increasing importance on how the daily work life of their employees unfolds. The employee experience allows companies to fidelize rare profiles, a critical issue in a talent war.
Cocoom is a "collabor'active" internal communication solution that aims to drive change effectively. Co-constructed with the client company, the platform allows to involve the management and each of the employees in information sharing promoting acculturation and commitment of teams around a project.
The HeyTeam company facilitates all onboarding tasks (onboarding) of new employees. The interface allows you to assign managers on each step of onboarding a new hire into a team. HeyTeam allows for example to automate the creation of Slack, Gmail, SalesForce, Trello accounts, etc. An efficient and intuitive way to save time and give a good impression to the new employee!
Mailoop enables the enterprise to improve the use of email, a factor of stress and loss of productivity on a daily basis. Mailoop offers an intuitive solution that integrates into the email system and allows users to anonymously qualify and express their feelings, positive or negative, about the emails they receive. It is also a solution that makes it easy to implement the right to disconnect.
Category: quality of work life
For the past few years, companies and HR departments have been focusing their efforts on employee fulfillment and well-being at work. Promoting the development of the company's attractiveness and its ability to retain employees, the Quality of Life at Work or QWL is one of the major issues of the HR world in 2018.
Thanks to its network of 2,000 partner infrastructures in France, Gymlib allows companies to offer their employees access to numerous physical activities, at a lower cost. For example, Gymlib allows employees to access, without commitment and starting at €15, sports and fitness gyms, yoga classes, boxing or golf.
Nap&Up wants to democratize micro-napping at work. In addition to offering the installation of its "Nap Cocoons", Nap&Up accompanies the company in its internal communication in order to promote this break time, beneficial for productivity and the fight against stress.
With its solution dedicated to companies, Mon Chaperon promotes copywriting among colleagues. Indeed, some employees (and especially female employees) are sometimes worried about taking, for example, the RER in the evening. Mon Chaperon is a tool for companies that want to reduce the feeling of insecurity, isolation and stress of their employees.
Kiplin Tech helps to get employees excited about physical activity again through gamification. Kiplin makes it possible, by combining a connected object with its web platform, to transform individual physical activity goals of employees into a common challenge for the entire company to meet.
Category: training and e-Learning
Thanks to the digital transformation of companies, the world of internal training is experiencing a new lease on life. Indeed, companies and their employees need to adapt to new ways of working and new jobs in order to remain competitive. Companies also express the need to innovate in this area in order to meet the expectations of rare profiles.
OSCARh enables the exchange of knowledge and sharing of experiences between employees of a large group and those of an innovative startup. From 3 days to several months, the immersion in a startup allows, for example, the employee of a large group to appropriate the new Agile work methods by exchanging business skills. In addition, OSCARh allows companies to build trusting relationships to develop common cross-functional projects.
The company Unatti has created a platform to share knowledge between employees. Unatti brings mentoring, a supportive relationship between a mentor and a "mentee", back to the forefront and addresses the transmission of knowledge in businessby connecting employees based on volunteering and a matching algorithm.
Uptale makes it simple to create "educational experiences" dedicated to employees. Using virtual reality, the platform offers interactive training tailored to the needs of the company. A great way to increase engagement through gamification.
Category: Serious Gaming
A Serious Game is an application that uses the codes and techniques of video games but goes beyond the mere dimension of entertainment. Serious Games are now emerging as solutions that foster engagement and increase motivation of employees. A fun alternative to traditional training.
The Serious Game Guild'Up, created by the company EdenQuest, is the first MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) of enterprise. With the ability to host up to 60,000 employees in a single game, this solution aims to promote onboarding, socialization, interaction and the acquisition of new knowledge in a fun and innovative way.
My Serious Game is a studio specializing in the design and development of turnkey creative training. The solutions offered by the studio are a fun and immersive alternative to traditional internal training, thanks to their ability to vary formats: 3D Serious Game, e-Book, Adaptive Learning or even augmented reality.
Category: collaborative work
The digital transformation of companies accentuates collaborative work. With the development of teamwork, the productivity of the company is improved. Collaborative work is now meant to be simpler, more efficient and more fun to adapt to employees' expectations.
Klaxoon is a presentation and meeting facilitation tool that allows sharing knowledge in a fun and interactive way with your team. With Klaxoon, facilitators and collaborators interact in real time on the same interface, take on challenges and build word clouds to bring out ideas. The tool also promotes feedback by offering employees the opportunity to express themselves via surveys.
Bubble Plan offers an easy-to-use online project management tool for easy learning. With its intuitive interface, Bubble Plan's Dashboard allows increasing interactivity and exchange between collaborators in project management.
Category: Professional Mobility
In times of growth, companies express needs for additional skills, yet lack the budget to do so. Moreover, when the need for skills is urgent, there is no time to test talent. The solution often lies in job mobility.
Shairlock takes into account the employee's professional skills and wishes (GPEC). Serving the employee, the solution promotes the organization of jobs within the company by using Big Data to ensure the optimization of skills and careers internally.
Praditus is a self-assessment and self-discovery solution. By involving employees in the identification of their soft skills through a test based on management and psychology theories, Praditus encourages the employee to drive his or her own career development.
WiserSkills maps resources and needs in terms of skills. The solution involves the employee in his or her mobility and professional project. The company is there to help them reach their goal. This tool increases the ability of HR departments to anticipate skills needs and optimize internal mobility.
Performanse is a tool for assessing and managing individual and collective performance. The solution assists HR staff in the decision making process of developing and moving talent internally based on skills assessment and behavioral dimension.
Category: HR Information System
The HRIS or Human Resources Information System, is an interface that centralizes HR information. After supplementing the tools with new features, the market is now turning to task automation and betting on ease of use.
The company Payfit offers a SaaS solution dedicated to payroll management. The tool allows HR departments to easily and more efficiently handle payroll editing and social declarations. In addition to offering considerable time savings through task automation, the solution is simple and does not require the intervention of a payroll specialist.
MonPortailRH is a platform that allows companies to customize HRIS. With 12 free features such as a secure database, a resume management system, dematerialization of HR documents and more, MyHR Portal makes it accessible to all companies to use an HRIS. The company also provides additional modules to meet the needs of SMEs.
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