The employment platform for business services
Your people are your service. Employment Hero helps consultancies, agencies and professional services firms manage HR, payroll, onboarding and compliance in one connected platform, so your team can stay focused on delivering great client work.

Trusted by business services organisations globally.
What’s making it harder for your team to deliver?
PAIN POINT 1
Multi-entity operations create data silos
When you’re running multiple entities or service lines, employee records get scattered. One team is in a shared drive, or HR is stuck manually reconciling data across systems instead of supporting the business. That leads to slower decisions, avoidable errors and compliance risks.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Employment Hero centralises people data across entities into a single platform, so your HR team can see everything and your managers get the visibility they actually need.
PAIN POINT 2
Onboarding inconsistency costs you time and exposes you to risk
Business services firms onboard frequently, across different roles, locations and entities. Without a repeatable process, new starters wait too long for contracts, submit paper IRD forms and start work before critical compliance steps are completed.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Employment Hero automates onboarding from offer letter to first day, with digital contracts, IRD tax code collection (IR330), KiwiSaver enrolment and policy acknowledgement all handled in sequence.
PAIN POINT 3
Manager self-service is non-existent, HR becomes a bottleneck
In a distributed business, managers need to be able to act independently to approve leave, access team information, track performance and manage their direct reports without waiting on HR.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Employment Hero gives managers real-time visibility into their teams through a clean, mobile-friendly interface, so HR can focus on work that actually moves the business forward.
Still wasting billable hours on manual admin?
Automate leave tracking to protect your project timelines

Stay on top of who’s available and who’s away, without the back-and-forth email chains. Consultancies and agencies rely on team capacity, so a surprise leave clash can throw client deliverables off track. With Employment Hero, employees request leave in the app, managers approve it in a tap and balances update instantly across your team calendar.
Centralise performance tracking to save hours on manual paperwork

Run consistent, meaningful reviews that link individual growth to client outcomes. In a services business, your consultants and account managers are the product, so their development directly shapes what you can deliver. Employment Hero lets you schedule review cycles, set goals tied to billable targets or client KPIs and capture feedback in one place.
View your headcount costs instantly instead of manual data entry

Turn your people data into the numbers that actually drive retention. When your costs are mostly headcount, you need to see where time and money are going. Employment Hero surfaces trends across turnover, leave, headcount and salary spend through clear dashboards. An outsourced services firm can spot a rising attrition rate in one division early and act before it dents delivery and client confidence.
Use automated hiring tools to fill billable roles faster

Fill billable roles sooner with an AI agent that handles the heavy lifting in hiring. Growth in business services often hinges on how quickly you can bring on the right talent to meet client demand. Employment Hero’s AI recruitment tools help you write job ads, screen applicants and shortlist strong candidates in a fraction of the usual time.
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Focus on team delivery. We’ll handle the employment side
Employment Hero gives business services organisations the compliance confidence, workforce visibility and people management tools to run their teams efficiently without the administrative overhead slowing delivery down.
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