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When your company has 300,000 employees across multiple continents, onboarding new employees can be challenging. Consider Hitachi, the global conglomerate that manufactures household products, large-scale infrastructure such as railway systems and renewable energy products.
Its HR teams were spending countless hours on menial work due to poor processes. New employees were filling out paper forms. Security access took days to get approved; phones and laptops took weeks to be delivered. Worst of all, some potential employees were withdrawing their candidacies because of the poor onboarding processes.
So, Hitachi tasked its IT department with developing a private, custom AI system to improve the process. Thanks to the new technology, HR professionals now spend 40% less time bringing in new hires, employee satisfaction with onboarding has improved, and the company is losing fewer candidates.
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Hitachi isn’t alone. Manufacturing companies globally are turning to technology to bridge the needs of corporate production and their workforces.
Unilever recently overhauled its recruitment process by leveraging AI and gamification, introducing a digital recruitment platform that includes video interviews and uses online games
