HR staff leasing: opportunities in the digital economy environment (case of Russia)

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 29, Polytechnicheskaya Str., 195251, St. Petersburg, Russia

^* Corresponding author: evseeva_sa@spbstu.ru

Abstract

The informatization of managerial activities, the growing importance of IT technologies, providing the processing of an extensive amount of information that is necessary for making decisions in the field of HRmanagement,areconsidered.Itleadstoachangeintherequirementsfor the skills and abilities of future employees. Also, the requirements on the part of companies for HR specialists change in the direction of their complexity, orientation on friendly environmental production, which leads to the need for intellectual capital in the organization. Modern information and communication technologies lead to the transformation of forms of employment and affect all subjects and all institutions of the labour market. In this situation, companies, especially industrial ones (such as agricultural, engineering, machinery), should also follow the rules of ecofriendly environmentthatcouldbesupportedbydigitalization.Thereistheformation of an ecosystem of personnel in the world: management of employees outside the enterprise. Since HR functions in many companies belong to thoseservingthemainprocess,itseemsappropriatetousealternativeforms ofemployment,forexample,staffleasing.Advantagesanddisadvantagesof HR staff leasing were described. Despite the recent development of staff leasing in Russia, there is a good future, as it will allow many companies to take a balanced approach to resolve the issue of optimal use of personnel in the organization’sactivities.