Run people ops on autopilot with Employment Hero
Employment Hero helps operations teams onboard at speed, spot workforce trends and meet compliance requirements. It’s HR, payroll and hiring in one place.
Trusted by businesses of all sizes across New Zealand
From first hello to final payday
Workforce management built for complexity
Oversee your whole organisation with effortless workforce management. Using live dashboards and reports, you can easily review team efficiency and costs in minutes. Spend less time searching for information and lead a workforce that runs on accurate, up-to-date data.
Onboard new employees in record time
You can start onboarding team members from the moment they get an offer. Send employment agreements, policies and KiwiSaver forms for easy digital completion before day one. Our automated onboarding task checklists ensure that nothing is missed.
Keep across your biggest compliance risks
Our platform enables employees to submit their own leave requests, acknowledge workplace policies and keep their own information up to date. When it’s time for the next pay run, time off is factored into leave calculations that are designed to be Holidays Act compliant.
Employment Hero is always improving to provide you with tools
to help you work smarter, not harder
How Employment Hero supports operations leaders
Tap into insightful workforce data to drive better decisions
Spot cost blowouts before they hit the bottom line
As an operations leader, you need accurate numbers and data, not guesswork. With Employment Hero’s real-time dashboards, you can see headcount, labour costs, overtime and leave liabilities in one place. It’s also easy to create custom reports on various aspects of the business, from leave balances to attendance tracking.
Leave your new starters with a great impression
Digital onboarding that keeps up with your hiring
Replace paper-based onboarding with a fully digital process. Onboarding tasks are assigned and tracked centrally across managers, IT and HR. And when someone leaves, the same consistency applies, with termination checklists, final pay and documentation all handled in one place.
Stop reconciling. Start running.
Connect your rosters, timesheets and payroll in one platform
Approved timesheets flow directly into payroll. No re-keying, no manual exports, no chasing down discrepancies after the fact. Roster changes update in real time, missing timesheets or unusual hours are flagged before they become payroll errors, and pay runs take hours, not days.
Boost your compliance confidence
Built for NZ’s employment law, updated as it changes
Our platform automates leave entitlement calculations, PAYE and KiwiSaver deductions, so your team can operate with confidence every pay cycle. Employment changes are logged with a full digital audit trail. And as legislation evolves, Employment Hero updates centrally, so your team doesn’t have to keep up with every change.
Our Employment Operating System is built to scale with you
Software for small, medium and large businesses
Growth shouldn’t mean more admin. Employment Hero is built to handle 10 to 1,000 employees, across multiple entities and locations. With custom pay categories and workflows, the platform scales with you. And it’s super secure – we’re the only vendor in our space to hold ISO 27001, ISO 227017 and ISO 27018 standards.
Employment Hero works with your tech stack
Employment Hero integrates with a range of existing payroll, accounting and rostering tools. Whether you need full HR, recruitment and payroll in one place or just want to streamline onboarding and engagement, you can tailor the setup to your needs.
We’re proud to support businesses like Behemoth Brewing…
Frequently asked questions
Many teams do but they still spend hours fixing errors or reconciling data across multiple systems. Employment Hero automates compliance, integrates with other popular tools and gives you reliable reporting your leadership team will trust. Our implementation team will make switching to Employment Hero straightforward.
Employment Hero gives operations leaders the tools to control costs, manage compliance and work smarter. Our all-in-one Employment Operating System brings HR, payroll and data together, so you have one reliable source of truth.
With Holidays Act compliant leave calculations, certification tracking and digital employment agreements, you can reduce risk and boost your compliance confidence. Any team changes can be handled with ease, whether it’s onboarding casuals or managing shifts across locations.
Security and privacy are fundamental to how we build and operate our platform. We’re committed to protecting customer data through secure design, strong access controls, encryption and resilient cloud infrastructure hosted on Amazon Web Services.We hold internationally recognized certifications, including ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018. Find out more at trust.employmenthero.com.
Absolutely. Many of our customers are people ops leaders juggling it all. Think of our Employment Operating System like an extra set of hands that can help automate repetitive admin, give insights to guide strategy and make it easier to scale as your business grows.
We’re more than just software. We offer the world’s first Employment Operating System, purpose-built for New Zealand businesses. With payroll and compliance features, engagement tools, learning and onboarding, we give operations teams one connected system to do it all. No more disconnected tools, messy spreadsheets or whiteboard rosters.
While Employment Hero originated in Australia, we’ve quickly become New Zealand’s leading cloud HR & payroll platform. With over 70 team members based in Aotearoa, we’re constantly evolving the platform to suit the needs of Kiwi businesses.
