Employment. Intelligently Run.

Employment Hero is the world’s first AI-powered Employment Operating System, serving over 350,000 businesses and 2.5 million employees worldwide, it brings payroll, HR, recruitment and benefits into one platform, with AI agents powered by Hero AI handling the admin while you stay in control. Alongside the platform, HeroForce gives businesses the legal infrastructure to find, hire and employ people in 180+ countries without setting up a local entity. Whether a business runs its own team or scales through HeroForce, Employment Hero handles contracts, payroll and compliance.

Employment Hero supports small and mid-size businesses (SMEs) across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, childcare, education, construction, accounting and more. Plans start from a minimum of 10 employees and scale as a business grows.

Yes. Employment Hero connects with 30+ platforms, including accounting software like Xero, Sage Intacct, FreeAgent and QuickFile, job boards including Indeed, LinkedIn, Reed, Totaljobs and CV-Library, workplace tools like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Slack, and automated pension submissions through PensionSync. Available integrations vary by product and plan. See the full list on Employment Hero’s integrations page.

Employment Hero will help manage the implementation process and there are two main routes. With Guided implementation, businesses run the setup themselves with Employment Hero’s team supporting at each step. With Managed implementation, Employment Hero’s team does the heavy lifting, including data migration and configuration. Timelines depend on the size of the business and the state of its existing payroll data, and most switches include a parallel pay run to check everything balances before going live. Everything a business needs to get started is in the Implementation Hub. There are also detailed guides to HR implementation and Managed Payroll implementation.

Employment Hero holds ISO 27001 certification, the international standard for information security management, and a SOC 2 Type II report. Employment Hero complies with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act, and maintains a UK Data Processing Agreement covering cross-border data transfers. Customer data is protected with encryption in transit and at rest, multi-factor authentication, strict access controls and regular independent security audits and penetration testing. Certifications, audit reports, security policies and the full sub-processor list can be requested through Employment Hero’s Trust Centre. Visit the Trust Centre..

Employment Hero offers a range of plans to suit different business sizes and needs, from a free payroll option through to tailored enterprise pricing. Plans can be combined or bought separately, so businesses only pay for what they use, with a minimum of 10 users on HR and payroll plans. Current pricing and what each plan includes is on the pricing page, and Free Payroll can be used at no cost.

Hero AI is the technology Employment Hero built to power every AI capability in the platform. It runs Employment Hero’s AI agents, including the AI Recruitment Agent, which screens, scores and interviews applicants and takes a role from job post to shortlist in minutes, and the AI HR Agent, which answers employees’ HR and policy questions and drafts everyday HR documents. Employment Hero designed Hero AI as glass box AI: users see what it did and why, and approve anything significant before it happens.

Yes. Employment Hero built Hero AI so the business stays in control. Employment Hero’s employment law and payroll specialists define the compliance rules the agents work within, and the agents show their working and hand decisions back for human approval rather than acting alone. Hero AI gives teams more capacity. It doesn’t remove human oversight. Employment Hero’s AI Services Statement sets out the detail.

Yes. Employment Hero Payroll is recognised by HMRC for reporting PAYE online, and handles Real Time Information (RTI) submissions, PAYE and National Insurance, along with automated pension contribution submissions through PensionSync for auto-enrolment. Employment Hero updates the platform as legislation changes, including under the Employment Rights Act.

Yes. Employment Hero’s Accounting Partner Programme lets accounting firms and payroll bureaus manage unlimited clients with HMRC-compliant automation. There is also a Referral Partner Programme with lifetime commission on successful referrals, and a Certified Partner Programme for firms reselling the Employment Operating System alongside their own services.

HeroForce is Employment Hero’s Employer of Record service. It lets businesses find, hire and employ people in 180+ countries without setting up a local entity, with Employment Hero taking on the contracts, payroll, tax and local compliance as the legal employer. Businesses keep full control of their people and their work.