AI for HR Teams: What to Automate, What Works, and When to Go Custom
At 300 employees, a typical company spends $160,000 to $220,000 per year on HR coordinator salaries. McKinsey estimates roughly 40 percent of that time – $64,000 to $88,000 – goes toward work that follows repeatable rules: answering the same policy questions, coordinating the same onboarding steps, pulling the same headcount reports from systems that don’t talk to each other. None of that requires human judgment. All of it is automatable. The question is whether to automate it with the tools already inside your HRIS and ATS, with a mid-market AI platform, or with a custom build – and which choice delivers a return inside 12 months. ...