Monday, July 13, 2020, 07:08
The vast majority of business success stories in the United States have a pattern in their origins: a garage. The US is the country of the great technological, of the successful business career.
The germ of the large European unicorns is diffuse. We know from Spotify that he was born from the association of the two passions of the founder Daniel Ek, music and computers. Or that of Cabify, when the maker traveled to the Southeast Asia and realized that he had problems paying a taxi.
Perhaps the next European business success originated in a yacht. According to the GP Bullhound report, Personio is one of the most promising startups by 2021 and it can become the next unicorn on the old continent, that is, it is worth more than 1,000 million euros.
Hanno Renner is at the head of this company. His professional career starts on board a yacht. “It was fun, but I had many responsibilities with the crew and tourists,” Renner emphasizes this newspaper. “Actually, it was quite a student -task to make money and pay my training university of Munich.”
As Daniel Ek of Spotify, Renner had two technological passions and helping people. “In addition to wanting to build a company where I would like to work alone, the main reasons were why I decided to find my own company.”
Persoio currently has more than 450 employees with four different locations, one of them in Madrid. “We are working on our goal to become the RRHH software leader in Europe for SMEs.”
The platform offers a series of tools to help and automate everything in the company, “from monitoring work applications to payroll administration and feedback from employees,” the CEO of the company surrenders.
“We cover a very real and tangible need that is very difficult to arrange with pencil and paper and an Excel sheet,” he says.
In Spain, 99.8% of companies are MKB. They assume 66% of the total employment and 62% of GDP. «However, most SMEs in Europe have not yet digitized their HR processes. Some work with Excel sheets, but this still means a lot of work manual for administration, “says Renner.
According to their figures, seven out of ten small and medium -sized Spanish companies have not digitized their human resources processes. “In Spain it is potentially huge,” he adds.
HR in the cloud
The rise of SARS-COV-2 has a boost of technology in companies and a boost for the implementation of software in processes such as Human Resources. “We believe that there is a change in the role of HR professionals,” explains Renner.
In the case of person, the data of their tools in the cloud ‘centrally in Germany’ are housed, he says. “Before the AVG, we focus on the issue of data protection, especially to distinguish ourselves from the competitors from abroad,” says the CEO of Personio.
“Especially in times like this, companies need HR
