An HR administrator wants to implement a HRIS to automate day-to-day transactional activities. Which activity would this primarily automate?

• A. Updating benefits
• B. Strategic planning
• C. Long-term investment analysis
• D. Market research

Answer: (A)

HRIS is designed to automate routine, transactional HR tasks. Updating benefits is a recurring administrative activity that involves entering changes, verifying eligibility, and keeping accurate records for employees. An HRIS handles these ongoing data-entry and processing steps efficiently, reducing manual work and errors.

Strategic planning, long-term investment analysis, and market research are higher-level activities that require analysis, forecasting, and decision-making beyond routine record-keeping. The HRIS can provide data for those tasks, but it isn’t primarily used to automate that kind of analysis.