HR and hospitality, made easy.
Struggling with staff turnover, last-minute rostering and payroll chaos?
The Employment Operating System is the all-in-one HR and employment fix you need – helping you run a tighter ship with less admin and more time for service.
Your HR roadblocks. Solved.
Say goodbye to disconnected systems slow everything down
Juggling separate tools for rostering, payroll and HR means double-handling and inevitable mistakes. Our Employment Operating System connects them all – so you can onboard, roster, approve timesheets and pay staff in one seamless flow.
Make constant turnover and costly rehiring a thing of the past
Hospitality churn is brutal. Cut hiring costs with SmartMatch, get new hires started quickly with onboarding software. Attract, retain and train staff without the recruiter fees.
Take the complexity out of compliance
From public holiday pay to visa tracking, there’s a lot to get wrong. Employment Hero helps you stay on top of it with automated pay calculations, an HR Advisory service, digital audit trails and more.
Just ask Behemoth Brewing
We’re leaders in New Zealand
Trusted by thousands of Kiwi businesses. We’re G2 category leaders, and we’ve helped countless SMEs streamline HR, payroll and workforce management across the hospitality sector.
We help hospitality businesses simplify, scale and succeed
Smart, connected workflows
Rostering, timesheets, onboarding, HR and payroll – all in one place.
Automate the entire flow from roster scheduling to pay. Eliminate manual data entry, reduce compliance risk, and get a clear view of all your operations.
Mobile-first tools for a mobile-first workforce
Let your staff swap shifts, log hours and view payslips from their phones.
Give your team everything they need, wherever they are – from contracts to rosters and time-off requests – it’s all at their fingertips.
Visa and Holidays Act compliance made simple
Track right-to-work documents, visa expiry and NZ-specific pay rules automatically.
Employment Hero supports you with all things employment law, from navigating the Holidays Act to secure digital recordkeeping – helping you meet obligations without slowing you down.
Faster, cheaper, smarter hiring
SmartMatch and digital onboarding gets staff in faster – and for less.
Reduce reliance on agencies or job boards, and do away with lengthy job descriptions. Attract, shortlist and onboard your team all from the same place, whether you have one venue or several.
Head office visibility with local flexibility
Ideal for franchises, groups and multi-site venues.
Give venue managers the autonomy they need, while the head office retains central oversight through permissioned access and consolidated reporting.
Retain staff and build culture
From shoutouts to structured one-on-ones, keep your team connected and engaged.
Use built-in performance and employee recognition tools and engagement surveys to drive culture, reduce churn and support development – maintain employee engagement, no matter the staff type or tenure.
Customers that love us
“It’s so much easier to keep track of the daily wage spend and to see if we’re on budget, as well as when we need to pull it in and tighten up a bit. Rostering is so much easier as well.”
Jason Ingram, Operations Manager
“Our old way would be to fill in the form and send it to the manager to send to HR and to payroll, then going back to try and find the paperwork. It normally would take so many resources and emails and paperwork… Now we have everything on Employment Hero.”
Jen Graham, Head of HR
“It saved us the cost of hiring a full-time HR or payroll person. That’s huge for a business like ours.”
Angela Tanner, Office Manager
“I used to pay more than double for our old software. And Employment Hero does absolutely everything I need.”
Layamon Bakewell, CEO
“It saves easily three hours per person. That’s a whole day between two people. Time that can be spent building the business instead of just keeping it going.”
Hannah, Behemoth Brewing
Frequently asked questions
Hospitality HR is complicated and time-consuming. Fortunately, the Employment Operating System brings all HR processes under one roof: rostering, timesheets, payroll, hiring and employee development in one place. No more doubling up, no more compliance guesswork, just seamless human resources management. For hospitality businesses that rely on speed, accuracy and efficiency, it’s a lifesaver.
Yes. Our built-in payroll software helps interpret and apply NZ pay rules correctly – including public holiday rates, alternative holidays and time-in-lieu tracking.
We’re built for that. Whether you’re an HR manager, HR professional, founder or franchise owner, the Employment Operating System is the one tool you’ll need to manage it all. Assign permissions by venue, create consistent onboarding and reporting processes, and manage everything centrally.
Absolutely. Track visa status, expiry dates and right-to-work documentation automatically within your onboarding and HR workflows.
Yes. With mobile access, shift reminders and digital payslips, casuals can manage their employment in the same way as permanent employees: it’s all at their fingertips.
Yes – the Employment Operating System includes customisable online training modules, a built-in learning management system, and automatically notifies you when staff complete each task you assign them.
Our tools are built to encourage employee performance, through built-in recognition tools, digitised 1:1 tools, peer-review functionality and so much more.
