As a small but growing business you are a tightly run ship. Sales and operations take priority. But you also want to make sure that you lay foundations that will support you as you grow bigger.
You are thinking of hiring or have already hired dedicated HR people to manage this growth on people and you wonder if this the right time to be investing in HR automation?
With growth comes the natural loss of the “line-of-sight” advantage where everyone knows what the other is doing. To keep things from get chaotic, you know you need to put in place systems and processes but you also worry about becoming “bureaucratic” and losing the nimbleness that has been your advantage so far.
Money is hard to come by and has tremendous opportunity value. Every bit you invest must pay back many times over. You want to make sure that the money you spend today will get you something that works for you for a long time to come.
There is also the question of whether you have the necessary skills to evaluate, install and run a sophisticated HR system. After all the last thing you need is a system that will need a whole lot of new skills to be hired just to make it run.