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Cut HR Costs by 30 % - Without Compromising Culture

Feb 7, 2025
Cian Collins
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Cold Hard Truth
Finance wants leaner HR spend; employees crave richer experiences. Most HR teams swing between overspending on perks and slashing headcount.

There’s a smarter way.

Make HR Spend Transparent and Actionable

We start by helping clients map their true HR technology and service spend. Using simple, custom-built dashboards, we identify redundancies (e.g. duplicate licences, underused platforms) and highlight areas of low ROI. Most organisations uncover 8–12% of hidden cost in the first diagnostic phase.

Streamline Routine Tasks Through Smart Process Design

Before suggesting automation, we review how current processes run across sites. Then we identify repeatable, manual tasks like onboarding workflows or time-off approvals that can be standardised or digitised using existing tools. This typically reduces admin time by up to 60% without adding new systems.

Enable Employee Self-Service That Works

Rather than pushing transactions onto managers blindly, we help design and configure intuitive, mobile-friendly self-service portals that employees actually use. Done right, this improves adoption rates and reduces HR helpdesk volume while enhancing the employee experience.

Reduce Costs Without Damaging Culture

Cost savings are deliberately reinvested into high-impact areas like manager enablement, employee wellbeing, and data capability-building ensuring the transformation is seen as empowering rather than extractive.

Make HR Data Meaningful to the Business

We build monthly scorecards and dashboards that translate HR activity into business outcomes linking metrics like time-to-fill or attrition to cost, risk and productivity. This helps HR leaders present a credible, commercial narrative to the C-suite.

Cian Collins

Director Nova HCM