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Great businesses start with great first hires
Building a team from scratch is exciting, but the employment admin, compliance and paperwork can quickly take the shine off it. Employment Hero helps you get the foundations right so you can stay focused on building what matters.
Any of these sound familiar? Here’s how Employment Hero helps.
PAIN POINT #1
Getting your first hire legally compliant is harder than you think
Awards, tax file numbers, superannuation, Fair Work information statements, written employment contracts, the list of what you’re legally required to get right goes on. One missed obligation can mean penalties, back-pay or a Fair Work claim before you’ve had your first proper pay run.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Employment Hero builds compliance in from the start, Fair Work-compliant contracts, automated super contributions and onboarding checklists that mean nothing gets missed.
PAIN POINT #2
Every hour spent on payroll is an hour not spent on building your business
Getting payroll right matters, both for compliance and for the employees counting on you to be paid accurately and on time. Between award rates, super and reporting, there’s more to stay across than it first appears.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Employment Hero automates award interpretation, super calculations and Single Touch Payroll reporting, so every pay run is accurate and ATO-compliant without you becoming a payroll expert.
PAIN POINT #3
Top talent leaves when the basics aren’t working
Your early hires are your culture. If onboarding is disorganised, payslips are delayed or leave balances are hard to track, it can create frustration for employees and extra admin for your team. In a competitive talent market, startups lose great people to larger employers before they have a chance to build loyalty.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Employment Hero gives your team a seamless onboarding experience, a self-service app for leave and payslips and employee benefits that compete with companies ten times your size.
Built for the stage you’re at right now
Hire the right people, faster
Employment Hero’s AI Recruitment Agent scores, screens and interviews applicants automatically, so you can hire your first team member without spending your week in your inbox.
AI-driven tools cut hiring time by up to 50%
Onboard new hires before day one
Send Fair Work-compliant contracts, tax forms and policy documents digitally. New starters complete everything themselves before they walk in the door. No printing, no chasing, no admin.
Improve onboarding by 85%.
Payroll that practically runs itself
Get automated modern award interpretation, super contributions and payroll reporting. Whether you’re paying one person or ten, payroll takes minutes and you don’t need to second-guess a thing.
Improve payroll efficiency by 81%.
Expert HR Advice When You Need It
Employment Hero’s HR Advisory gives you access to employment law experts when you need them, for contract questions, a tricky performance situation or understanding your obligations before you make your next hire.
Save 42% of time on HR admin.
Big-business benefits, startup price tag
Give your people cash back at major retailers, discounted health insurance and more at no extra cost to your business. It’s one of the easiest ways a startup can compete on culture with businesses who have been in the game longer than you.
Companies using Employment Hero see 89% return on investment.
Here’s how one mission-driven startup built a global team with Employment Hero
Eden Brew
Food Technology | 8+ | Mittagong, NSW
THE CHALLENGE
Eden Brew is an Australian startup on a mission to create precision-fermented, animal-free milk. With big ambitions and a small team, they were growing fast, and the specialist talent they needed wasn’t always based in Australia. When they found their ideal creative director based in Auckland, they had no idea how to employ him compliantly as a New Zealand national. And that was just the start.
Their science team pipeline stretched across the UK, Singapore, Israel and the US, people who were right for the roles but couldn’t or wouldn’t relocate. Eden Brew needed a way to hire globally without setting up legal entities in every country.
“Rather than us spending the time working that out ourselves, or engaging expensive lawyers to do that for us, we understood that we could employ people through Employment Hero. So we got to understand the process. And it was really, really easy.”
— Anna Oxley Rintoul, Head of People & Culture, Eden Brew
OUTCOMES
International hire onboarded compliantly without a legal entity in New Zealand
Full confidence in payroll obligations across multiple currencies and jurisdictions
Global hiring pipeline unlocked for specialist science talent worldwide
Get started in three simple steps
You don’t need a three-month implementation process. Most startups are up and running within a week.
Set up in a day
Add your business details, upload your existing employee records and connect your accounting software. Our onboarding team walks you through it, you’re not doing this alone.
Bring your team across
Invite your employees to complete their own profiles via the app. They update their personal details, bank account and tax information directly. No admin required on your end.
Test, then let it run
Before going live, your first processes are reviewed to ensure they align with award settings and compliance requirements. From there, everything runs smoothly, faster, more accurate and effortlessly managed.
Employment Hero works alongside the tools you already run on
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
Not at all. Starting on Employment Hero before your first hire allows you to set the foundations right from day one, which is far cheaper than fixing compliance mistakes later. The platform scales with you, so you’re not paying for features you don’t need yet.
Yes. Employment Hero pre-loads modern award rates and calculates ordinary hours, overtime, allowances and penalty rates at each pay run. When the Fair Work Commission updates award rates, the platform updates automatically. If you’re unsure which award applies, our HR Advisory team can help you work it out.
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.
Yes. Our onboarding team handles the data migration and will make sure your existing employee records, leave balances and payroll history transfer correctly. Most migrations are completed as part of your initial setup.
Super contributions are calculated automatically at every pay run and submitted through Employment Hero’s super clearing house. You don’t need to manage separate super payments or fund relationships, it’s handled end-to-end.
Yes. Employment Hero is built with enterprise-grade security including encryption, secure access controls and regular audits. We stay up-to-date with the latest legal and compliance requirements, so you know your sensitive information is in safe hands.
Stop figuring out employment as you go
Employment Hero gives startups the HR and payroll foundation to hire right, stay compliant and build a team that actually wants to stay. Without adding a single hour to your week.
