Employment Hero vs Info-Tech

Scalability looks different depending on where your business is headed. If you’re planning to grow headcount, enter new markets or hire across borders, ask your HR software provider directly how the platform handles cross-border payroll. You’ll also want to know what recruitment looks like at scale, and whether there is a pathway for international employment.

Employment Hero is built to scale with you. Automated onboarding gets new starters productive faster and built-in payroll handles Australian compliance including award interpretation without manual workarounds. You can also access integrated recruitment tools that let you source, screen and hire in one place. For businesses with global ambitions, Employment Hero’s Employer of Record service covers hiring in over 180 countries without needing to set up a local entity.

Before committing to any HR platform, ask how integrations work in practice. Do native connections exist for the tools you already use, or does data movement require middleware and developer support? What happens when your accounting software needs to talk to your payroll system? The real cost of a platform often lives in the answer to those questions.

Employment Hero is designed to work standalone, so you can choose whether you want integrations or a single tool for the full employee lifecycle. For integrations you choose to keep, Employment Hero connects natively with the tools Aussie businesses love like Xero and QuickBooks. Because these connections are built in, your team spends less time reconciling data across systems and more time on work that actually moves the business forward.

When evaluating HR platforms, ask what sits beyond the basics. Does the platform give employees a reason to engage with it, or is it purely a back-office tool? What does it offer around wellbeing, learning and day-to-day experience?

Employment Hero covers the self-service essentials, but it doesn’t stop there. Employees can access perks and benefits from day one, including discounts, wellness support and Earned Wage Access for those who need flexibility between pay cycles. Built-in learning tools mean development happens inside the same platform, not in a separate system.

Getting a new HR platform off the ground takes real time and internal resources. Ask any provider how long implementation actually takes for a business your size, who manages the process on their side, and what happens when something isn’t working after go-live.

Employment Hero is an all-in-one system, so HR and payroll are configured together from day one rather than pieced together module by module. A dedicated implementation specialist guides your team through the setup, and because everything lives in one platform, there’s no reconciling separate systems or troubleshooting gaps between them.