None of these questions should take too long to answer. Actually, they are usually written down in your company policy, but most people don’t want to read pages of your employee handbook in order find their answer. Answering a question or two won’t take too much of your time, but when you have dozens or hundreds of employees asking them throughout the year, the time adds up and takes your focus away from your actual tasks.<\/p>\n
HR teams regularly deal with questions about leave balances, holidays, benefits, bank details, tax information, working hours, passwords, payslips and company policies. Often, the information already exists somewhere in an employee portal, policy document or intranet. The employee either cannot find it or does not know where to look.<\/p>\n
For employees, having to hunt through folders or wait for HR can make a simple task frustrating. For you, every routine question takes time away from recruitment, performance, workforce planning and the other work that needs your attention.<\/p>\n
This is where Factorial’s AI agent, called One<\/a>, can help. One connects securely to your company’s information in Factorial, so employees can ask questions in natural language and get answers based on your company’s data. Instead of searching through documents or sending a message to HR, they can ask what they actually want to know.<\/p>\n For HR teams, CEOs and CFOs, One can also help you ask questions about your organisation and get the information you need to support certain strategic decisions. Factorial brings HR, IT and Finance together in one AI business management platform<\/a>, giving One company context that a general-purpose AI tool or LLM like ChatGPT does not have.<\/p>\n HR FAQs are the questions employees ask again and again about working at your company. These questions tend to cover a variety of subjects such as annual leave, sickness, pay, benefits, policies, working hours, personal details and internal systems. HR also deals with more complex questions about grievances, performance, contracts and employee rights.<\/p>\n Traditionally, companies have tried to deal with common HR questions by creating an employee handbook<\/a>, an intranet FAQ page or folders full of policies. Those resources are still important to have so you can share them with employees during their onboarding<\/a>, for example. The problem that arises later though, is finding the right answer quickly when people actually need something.<\/p>\n An employee might know the annual leave policy exists somewhere, but they still need to find it, work out which rule applies to them and then check their own remaining balance. With an AI agent like One connected to your company information, the experience becomes much simpler. The employee can ask the question directly and get an instant answer. Better yet, One can even start automated workflows, like creating a request to update certain employee information in the employee database and forward it to a manager or the HR team for approval. Features like this save you so much time.<\/p>\n The same HR questions tend to come back again and again. We asked 1,000 managers<\/strong> which questions they hear most often, and the pattern was clear.<\/p>\n Seven in ten managers<\/strong> said they lose more than an hour every week<\/strong> dealing with these repeat questions. One in five loses more than three hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n The most common question was about missed clock-ins<\/strong>, with 76% of managers saying they hear some version of \u201cI forgot to clock in, can you fix it?\u201d on repeat. Annual leave<\/strong> comes next. More than half are regularly asked, \u201cHow many days of holiday do I have left?\u201d, while 47% hear questions about whether employees can take certain days off.<\/strong><\/p>\n Other common questions include:<\/p>\nWhat are HR FAQs?<\/h2>\n
Common HR questions and answers employees ask<\/h2>\n
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