Employment Hero vs Workday

Growing businesses often find that enterprise platforms built for large corporations come with complexity that slows them down rather than supporting them. Before committing to a platform, it’s worth asking if the platform was built for a business like yours, or if you’ll be paying for functionality you’ll never use while struggling to access what you actually need.

Employment Hero is built for businesses that are growing, with end-to-end HR, payroll and recruitment tools on a single platform. As your headcount grows, the platform grows with you. And if you’re expanding internationally, the built-in Employer of Record service means you can hire globally without setting up local entities.

Not all integrations are created equal. Some platforms offer broad integration capabilities that sound impressive on paper but require significant IT involvement to set up and maintain. You’ll want to know how much technical resource you’ll be spending just to connect the tools you already use.

Employment Hero connects natively with Xero, MYOB and JobAdder, meaning your accounting, time-tracking and recruitment tools talk to each other without a developer in the room. And if you’d rather avoid the integration question entirely, the all-in-one platform covers HR, payroll, scheduling and recruitment so the need for third-party tools is minimal from day one.

A platform that’s hard to navigate or requires IT support for everyday tasks creates friction for your people, not just your admin team. It’s worth asking whether your employees will actually use what you’re paying for, and what their experience is going to look like day to day.

Employment Hero puts your people first with intuitive self-service, integrated learning and innovative features like Earned Wage Access. It’s designed to ensure new hires and existing team members all get a unified and valuable experience from day one.

Implementation complexity is one of the most underestimated costs of switching platforms. Before signing anything, it’s worth asking how long the process will take, who you will need to involve and what happens if something goes wrong during setup.

Employment Hero is designed to get you up and running without an IT team. Onboarding is guided by implementation specialists who work with you through setup, and the platform is built so that HR and payroll teams can manage the process themselves. There’s no lengthy project timeline or heavy upfront investment to navigate before you can start using it.