How the Spreadsheet Habit Survives
Companies rarely choose spreadsheets for HR. They end up there because the alternative was worse, and the reasons are consistent:
- The system was configured for a company that does not resemble yours
- Employees never log in, so managers chase them by email anyway
- Payroll is calculated somewhere else and reconciled by hand
- Leave balances are argued about because nobody trusts the number
- Implementation needed a consultant and never really finished
- Half the modules were bought and none of them were adopted