This CPO merged her company’s HR department and IT departments and says it transformed their onboarding process

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As technology becomes a more important part of the work of human resources teams, some companies are going to great lengths to better align the two. For one software company, that meant merging their HR and IT teams. 

In August of last year, HR technology company Workleap decided to put all their seven IT employees under chief people officer Kahina Ouerdane. The move was prompted by the move to go fully remote—all 450 employees are no longer required to show up in an office.