Norkart is a forward-leaning Norwegian technology company that delivers market-leading geographic IT solutions for better workflow and smarter collaboration. With 230 employees, the company supports more than 300 municipalities and 50 inter-municipal organisations every single day, and underpins the handling of more than NOK 35 billion in municipal fees.
Norkart has been on a strong growth journey in recent years, and as the spreadsheets grew the team needed better control over its HR work. After evaluating several options, they chose the Norwegian HR system Huma.
Huma — a simple and intuitive HR system
Sonja Ertik Andersen is HR consultant at Norkart, and shares how Huma works for them:
"We have saved a lot of time on administrative tasks since we started using Huma. It's also easy to add new modules as employees get familiar with the features. That made the transition manageable for both the HR team and the rest of the company."
Huma is easy to learn and easy to use!
She highlights three things she likes most about Huma:
- Master data on employees in one place
- All HR-related tasks managed from the same solution
- Useful integrations with other services, including Glede
The Glede integration makes everyday work simpler
Each individual manager used to be responsible for sending employee gifts at Norkart. That created challenges from time to time — employees could end up with different gifts, and not always at the right moment. Sonja had heard about Glede through a tip from a colleague, and when she discovered the Glede integration in Huma she realised it could save Norkart a lot of time and frustration. Here is how it felt to get started:
It was very intuitive, and I found Glede easy to navigate. The service has few features, but the right ones — so it takes very little to get going.
Sonja sends gifts to employees for milestones like work anniversaries and birthdays through Huma's Glede integration. That brings several benefits:
- She manages all gifting from the company in one and the same system
- She is notified about birthdays and work anniversaries through Huma, so she does not have to keep track herself
- It is easy to make sure employees get a thoughtful gift in line with company guidelines, at the right time
- Glede makes it easy for Sonja to give sustainable gifts to employees
After using Glede and Huma together for over a year, Sonja shares the biggest benefits the combination has brought her.
"We save time at every step by using Glede and Huma. Managers and team leads do not have to spend time on gifts, we in HR spend less time administering them, and finance has it incredibly easy handling the monthly EHF invoice from Glede."
HR, finance and managers across the company all save a lot of time now that we use Glede + Huma for employee gifts
She also points to the value of being able to use the Glede gift card anywhere.
"We have employees from 25 to 65+, with all kinds of interests and priorities. We in HR cannot know what each person wants. With Glede, they spend the gift on what they actually want, and we do not have to worry about picking the right thing."
Outstanding feedback from employees
Sonja says she has had a steady stream of feedback from employees who think it works brilliantly. They love that they can use it on whatever they want, whenever they want, and that the gift card is always in their pocket.
"It works so well that Glede has become the only gift we give to employees. Even when people know what is coming, they are still really happy with it!"
The integration simply works perfectly for us
Sonja closes with a warm recommendation of Huma + Glede to other companies.
"Honestly, I cannot think of a single thing that could improve the gifting setup we get through Huma and Glede. I'm sure many other companies would benefit from it too."
