It’s HR software for NZ businesses. But better.

Employment Hero is an end-to-end platform that consolidates all your HR processes in one powerful system. Manage hiring, onboarding, compliance, learning, engagement, recognition, and more—all from one place.

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Trusted by over 300,000 businesses

Centralised employee management that works for everyone

Great for leaders

Consolidate systems and ways of working with shared visibility and greater collaboration.

Great for team managers

Develop and manage performance and hiring with access to insights and easy-to-use tools.

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Great for employers

Keep your team engaged with pulse checks, reward and recognition and learning and development.

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Next-gen HR software

  • Centralised data and processes
  • One login for all employee management needs
  • AI-powered automation
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Transform the way you manage HR


Build a strong HR foundation

Simplify core HR processes and tasks like onboarding, documentation, compliance, time off, and employee data.

Use templates or create documents from scratch, share them with the teams or individuals, and get notified when they’re read so you can rest knowing that information won’t slip through the cracks.

Monitor time off, set up approval flows, and get to-do lists to improve your daily tasks.

Enhanced automation and AI tools that free up time

Let Hero AI, your virtual assistant, reply to employee FAQs so you can focus on more strategic work.

Streamline hiring, provisioning, approvals, and communications with custom workflows and checklists so you optimise day-to-day activities—from hire to retire.

Never miss a deadline with automated reminders, auto-approval flows, and an up-to-date to-do list that has your back.

Accurate time and attendance that works for everyone

Time tracking doesn’t have to be hard. Easily define rotas, delegate roles, and ensure hassle-free rota management.

Optimise management with scheduling templates. Filter by cost centre or employee, and switch between different time period views.

Employee can bid on open shifts, swap shifts, and receive email notifications when shifts are assigned to them so you never have staffing gaps again.

Hiring that works like a dream

Accelerate your hiring process with SmartMatch, AI-driven insights, useful templates, and a centralised process that works for you, your team and your new hires. Set up screening questions, monitor activity trail, send emails directly from the platform, sync your schedule with your personal calendar app, an more—so you don’t let top talent slip away.

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Don’t just take it from us…

“This system has greatly simplified and streamlined our employee onboarding procedures, significantly reducing the reliance on paper-based documentation.”

Monette Gildenhuys, Senior People & Culture Advisor at Santa Fe Shutters Limited


“The introduction of Employment Hero is a total game-changer for our employee value proposition. It has absolutely changed the world of our employees at Simba.”

Hailey Butler, Head of People and Culture Simba Global

Scale your HR processes with confidence


Take the guesswork out of decision-making

Report on a wide range of data, requests, and actions—from time-off requests to policy acknowledgements. With a clear view of your team’s activities, you can easily track progress, spot trends, and ensure nothing slips through the cracks.

For one-offs or custom reports, you can pull data from the platform to offer individualised access to information via visual graphs that suits your needs.

Expert support and advice you can trust

Establish workplace best practice with unlimited access to HR and employment law advice, representation in claims. compliance health check, and more—all from UK professionals that will work with your challenges in mind.

Safeguard payroll compliance with an allocated payroll partner. Tackle complex calculations and action unforeseen changes with advice and services tailored to your business needs.

Intelligent payroll that gets your business

Ditch error-prone handovers, confusing spreadsheets, and repetitive manual entry with a payroll system that’s truly integrated with your HR platform.

Submit PAYE data seamlessly to the Inland Revenue and eliminate the manual file upload process.

Automate pay runs and generate payroll reports on employee earnings, leave, deductions, Kiwisaver and PAYE payments.

Employee engagement that does the job

Employees can use the company feed to give shoutouts and reward high performers with Hero Points that can be exchanged for perks.

Enable past employees to self-serve important documents like payslips, contracts, policies.

Measure employee satisfaction with happiness and engagement surveys. Nurture talent.

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FAQs

What is HR software?

Human resources software, also commonly known as a Human Resources Information System (HRIS), is a tool that helps businesses streamline and supercharge their human resources operations. It can automate and support a range of HR processes, such as recruitment, employee onboarding, people management and leave management, while also offering powerful reporting tools and helpful people analytics.

Which is the best HR software?

There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question – choosing the best HR software for your business will depend on your specific needs. You’ve got a long list of HR requirements to fill, such as:

  • HR software that makes the basics simple and adds the right value
  • Automation and access to an employee self-service portal for you and your team
  • A solution which is easy to implement and doesn’t interrupt BAU
  • A system that prioritises security, visibility and streamlined HR processes
  • Great service and support, right from the very start

If you would like to learn more about how Employment Hero can help your business needs, book a demo with us.

How do I choose an HR software platform?

HR systems can seem overwhelming at the start. However, when choosing HR software, it’s important to consider your specific needs as a business. If you’re looking for a comprehensive people management platform that covers all aspects of HR, then Employment Hero is the perfect choice.

Does HR software include payroll management?

Employment Hero can offer a comprehensive and fully integrated payroll solution suitable for your business. If you would like to keep an existing payroll software, our platform can also integrate with a range of popular software providers.

Do I need an HR team to use this software?

No, you don’t need an HR team to use our software. With Employment Hero, you can manage all aspects of HR yourself, without any existing HR team.

How secure is my data with Employment Hero?

We take protecting your data very seriously at Employment Hero. We use the latest security technologies to protect your data, and our team is constantly monitoring our systems to ensure that your data is always safe.

We’ve achieved ISO 27001 compliance and use the same level of encryption standards that banks use to manage the security of your HR data.

How can HR software improve employee productivity?

1. Create a culture of reward and recognition – Reward and recognition motivate teams. Employees that feel recognised are more engaged, leading them to be more productive and being 20% more profitable than those that don’t. An effective HR Software should assist you in creating a culture of peer-to-peer recognition, and Employment Hero’s tools can help you do exactly that.

2. Deliver effective feedback – Any good manager knows that constructive feedback is an essential part of keeping employees on the right track. It can easily be forgotten, however, it’s vital to provide it consistently and keep easily accessible notes to refer back to. Employment Hero’s One-on-One (1:1s) tool solves this issue, creating a solid feedback structure between your managers and their direct reports and storing all the data automatically.

3. Define OKRs and goals – Objectives and Key Results (ORKs) are a high-impact goal-setting framework. OKRs consist of an Objective, which defines a big goal to be achieved, and up to 5 Key Results, which measure progress towards the objective. We wanted to reimagine OKRs for easy use by small businesses, and our user-friendly OKRs tool makes it easy for you to set and assign OKRs to your team within the platform.

4. Encourage learning and development – When you invest in learning and development (L&D) for your team, you give them the tools to work smarter and more efficiently. Well-trained employees show both quality and quantity in performance – leading to less wastage of time, resources and money. With Employment Hero’s Learning Management System, you can build custom learning pathways to ensure that your team’s knowledge is always expanding.

5. Free up time from HR admin – Self-service functionality allows your employees to perform routine HR tasks. This includes updating personal details, as well as acting upon HR documents. By reducing your employees’ reliance on you to perform administrative support tasks, you cut costs and response times while improving efficiency, productivity and compliance.

6. Manage employees remotely – Cloud-based HR software allows you to save an enormous amount of time across a range of HR tasks 100% remotely. This includes everything from hiring and onboarding, to managing time and attendance, to processing payroll, and even administering employee benefits. With accurate reporting at your fingertips, you’ll save so much unnecessary administration time, not to mention double handling costs.

7. Reduce time lost from data breaches – Although data breaches should be a rare occurrence, they can have a high impact on employee productivity as the team will need to spend time and resources investigating, resolving, and fixing the issue. Employment Hero offers considerably better security than having your sensitive data locked away in filing cabinets or even password-protected on your computer. We use the same level of password protection, encryption standards and firewall security that banks use.

Can Employment Hero support a small to medium-sized business?

Absolutely! Our platform is designed specifically for businesses of all sizes. We believe that every employer should have access to cost-effective HR and payroll tools, regardless of business size. It’s not just big businesses that should reap rewards of great HR, people management, and payroll!

How do I demonstrate the ROI of HR software to my business?

We understand that calculating and proving ROI can sometimes be tricky and that’s why we’ve put together this guide on how to build a business case for your new human resource management solution.

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From hired to retired, all in one place.

Bring HR, recruitment and payroll under one roof. Employment Hero is the only platform to do it all.