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Your business has outgrown the tools you started with
At this stage, the employment side of your business has probably grown faster than the systems supporting it. Disconnected payroll, manual onboarding, compliance tracked across spreadsheets. Employment Hero consolidates all of it.
Any of these sound familiar? Here’s how Employment Hero helps.
PAIN POINT #1
Your HR and payroll systems don’t talk to each other
At your scale, most businesses are running HR in one place and payroll in another. Every pay run requires manual cross-checking. Every headcount report means pulling data from three different places. The information exists, it just takes too long to get to it, and by the time you have it, something has changed.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Employment Hero brings HR, payroll, leave, recruitment, onboarding and performance into a single connected platform. When something changes in one place, everything else updates automatically.
PAIN POINT #2
Your HR team is buried in admin instead of doing HR
One HR generalist managing 80 people means most of the day goes to approvals, contract requests, onboarding paperwork and payroll queries. Other important areas, like performance, culture or workforce planning, can fall to the bottom of the list.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Automated workflows handle the repetitive tasks like onboarding checklists, leave approvals, contract generation and payroll processing, so your HR team can redirect their time to the work only they can do.
PAIN POINT #3
You’re making workforce decisions without the right data
At this size, leave liability, headcount trends and turnover patterns start to matter, but getting reliable numbers means manually compiling reports from disconnected systems. Most teams at this stage know what they want to measure, but don’t have the tools to do it efficiently, so decisions get made on gut feel instead.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Employment Hero’s reporting and analytics give you real-time visibility across your workforce from leave balances and headcount, to performance trends and payroll data. All in one place, ready when you need it.
One platform for every part of employment
Connected HR and payroll
HR and payroll share a single source of truth. Employee details, leave balances and pay records stay in sync automatically. No manual reconciliation, no duplicate data entry, no end-of-month surprises.
Improve payroll efficiency by 81%.
Automated onboarding at scale
As hiring volumes increase, onboarding consistency becomes harder to maintain. Employment Hero automates contracts, compliance documents and induction checklists so every new starter gets the same experience, regardless of who’s managing the process that week.
Improve onboarding by 85%.
Performance management that actually gets used
Move performance reviews out of Word documents and shared drives. Employment Hero’s performance module gives managers structured review templates, tracks goals across the business and surfaces data leadership can act on. Without waiting for HR to compile it.
Save 42% of time on HR admin.
Insights and workforce reporting
Real-time visibility across headcount, leave liability, turnover and payroll. Employment Hero surfaces the workforce data your leadership team needs so decisions get made on facts, not estimates.
Companies using Employment Hero see 89% return on investment.
Learning and training
Roll out mandatory compliance training, leadership development and onboarding modules across the whole business from one dashboard. Track completion, set reminders and maintain a clear audit trail.
Training content from over 250 global providers.
Here’s how one business owner automated their manual administration
Gilmour Space Technologies
Aerospace & Rocket Technology | 150+ employees | Gold Coast, QLD
THE CHALLENGE
Gilmour Space Technologies is at the forefront of Australia’s aerospace industry, building rockets from the Gold Coast. When HR Manager Carly Allen joined four years ago, the team had around 60 people and was growing fast. Timesheets were printed and signed by hand. Onboarding was manual. Performance reviews lived in Excel spreadsheets that had to be compiled and presented to the CEO by HR. As headcount pushed toward 150, it was clear the existing approach wouldn’t scale. They needed a single system that connected payroll, HR and performance, and that would grow with the business without creating more work for the team managing it.
“Having information readily available and streamlining processes are the biggest benefits for us. Nothing integrated seamlessly with payroll like Employment Hero did.”
— Carly Allen, HR Manager, Gilmour Space Technologies
OUTCOMES
Timesheets moved from paper to mobile, saving an estimated 10 minutes per employee per day
Performance data accessible directly by leadership
Onboarding fully automated as headcount scaled from 60 to 150+ people
Mandatory compliance and safety training managed and tracked across the whole business
Get started in three simple steps
You don’t need a three-month implementation process. Most businesses are up and running within two to four weeks.
Migrate your existing data cleanly
Our implementation team manages the transfer of your employee records, leave balances and payroll history. You’re not starting from scratch, and you’re not doing it alone.
Configure for the way your business actually works
Set up approval workflows, leave policies, onboarding checklists and payroll settings to match how your team operates. Employment Hero is built to fit the way your business operates.
Hand the day-to-day back to your managers and employees
Once live, employees manage their own leave, timesheets and details through the app. Managers handle approvals and performance reviews directly. HR stops being the middleman for everything.
Employment Hero fits into your existing tech stack
Xero
Payroll figures sync to Xero automatically after every pay run, no double entry, no manual reconciliation at month end.
MYOB
If you’re already on MYOB, Employment Hero connects directly, keeping your accounts and payroll aligned without extra work.
Deputy
Build your roster in Deputy and have approved hours flow straight into Employment Hero payroll, no re-keying, no errors.
Square
For businesses taking payments through Square, employee hours and sales data connect with your HR records in one place.
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Frequently asked questions
No. Employment Hero integrates directly with both Xero and MYOB, so your existing accounting setup stays in place. Employment Hero adds the HR, onboarding, performance and compliance layer on top, and syncs payroll data automatically so there’s no double handling.
Implementation is handled by our team alongside yours. We manage the data migration, configure the system to match your existing policies and provide training before go-live. Most medium-sized businesses are fully live within two to four weeks without the HR team carrying the heavy lifting.
That’s one of the biggest shifts Employment Hero enables. Managers handle leave approvals, performance reviews and onboarding tasks directly in the platform. HR sets the rules and has full visibility, but stops being the bottleneck for day-to-day requests.
Yes. Employment Hero pre-loads modern award rates and calculates ordinary hours, overtime, allowances and penalty rates at each pay run across multiple awards simultaneously. When award rates are updated by the Fair Work Commission, the platform updates automatically.
Yes. Our implementation team handles the migration of employee records, leave balances and payroll history from your existing provider. We’ll map out the process before anything moves so there are no surprises.
No lock-in. Employment Hero is a monthly subscription and you can cancel at any time. We’d rather earn your business every month than hold you to a contract.
Employment Hero’s performance module lets you run structured review cycles, set goals at an individual and business level and track completion across the whole organisation. Leadership can access performance data directly rather than waiting for HR to compile it, which frees up significant time on both sides.
Let employment run the way it should
Employment Hero gives medium businesses a single, connected platform for HR, payroll and performance, so your people team can stop managing systems and start leading people.
