A Beginner’s Guide To
HR Software

ON/OFF BOARDING

Create a simple yet active employee onboarding process that captures high-value data. Store and retrieve up-to-date, and employee-related data (basic information, employment history, education, performance, role, etc.) from a centralized database that can be accessed from anywhere, anytime. The online solution makes the off-boarding process less painful and a more professional.

Key Features

• Speed up offer creation with custom workflows that help you manage complex contracts, policies, tasks, and back-office processes for onboarding
• Pre-built training programs for new hires help in their effective integration into the organizational system and make them a part of the organizational structure
• New hires will have to enter details only once - the solution uses these details to automatically fill out all the necessary information in their tax forms, induction checklists, employee contracts and more
• Automate the process of collecting and managing new hire information and documentation to increase compliance, accuracy, and efficiency
• HR managers can easily track how an employee’s career graph is moving, and find opportunities to place them elsewhere, where they can make a difference
• Employees can sign and submit all the mandatory documents digitally. New hires can complete and submit the necessary documents prior to joining the organization if allowed
• Easily take steps to protect sensitive employee data and control access with customizable user management and visibility features
• Exit surveys give you an opportunity to learn from leaving employees and address any workplace issues you may not have known about

DOCUMENTS

The online document storage solution simplifies the management, processing, and protection of employee and business-critical HR data. It allows efficient management of employee files, enables automation of workforce procedures and gives greater control over forms, policies, and more.

Key Features

• Upload key documents such as contracts or pay slips to employee records so that they can be easily found
• Categorize and store documents in a traditional folder-based filing system. Share crucial documents with employees and provide access based on their role
• Automate the process of collecting and managing new hire information and documentation to increase compliance, accuracy, and efficiency
• As all documents are stored online, information can be appropriately shared across groups or with individual employees with the click of a button
• Attach files from your system or other cloud storage services directly
• Set permissions for employees to access documents, so you have control over the information and documents they can see or edit
• The integrated e-sign solution makes document signing seamless. Send documents to multiple recipients with just a click and stay updated through the entire process

TRAINING

The training module offers a centralized source of learning that can help you improve employee performance, ensure compliance, engage your workforce, and support business goals.

Key Features

• Create and manage all of your training programs in real-time from a secure web-based platform
• Create and store test questions in a centralized question bank so they can be saved and reused across multiple tests in multiple courses
• Web-based content authoring tools helps trainers create courses quickly and easily. It supports multiple formats, such as documents, presentations, videos, and images
• Create user groups based on job titles, roles, departments, facilities or locations, and schedule training requirements to these groups
• Keep training schedules on track and drive their completion with automated email notifications sent to employees and their managers for upcoming and overdue training
• Create and manage unlimited assessments online. This makes training consistent and convenient, business-wide
• Easily integrate quizzes into your online training courses. Create custom surveys online and get detailed reports that help you accurately understand the results
• Enhance your training tracking program with real-time insights. Automated reports give you unprecedented access to your employees' training performance metrics

EMPLOYEE SELF SERVICE

Allow employees to view and modify their data, submit time off requests, communicate with colleagues & your HR team, and view schedules. The online HR portal with self service capability is accessible through any mobile device, increasing convenience and timeliness for employees and HR professionals.

Key Features

• Employees have access to the latest company announcements and news shared by the HR department, as well as those from their teams
• Employees can view or update their information without having to communicate with HR team or their managers to do so
• Managers can access employee information as needed
• Enables managers to view projects assigned to their team, make smarter decisions by monitoring project costs & budgets, as well as analyzing HR reports
• Managers can approve/reject employee time off requests, attendance, and reimbursement requests via an intuitive and responsive online portal
• Time off requests can be submitted via the employee portal, and employees are notified as soon as time off is approved
• The online solution allows your employees to fill in their timesheets anywhere at any time
• Empower employees to stay on top of key activities with automatic alerts, and easy access to up-to-date team information, calendar, and more

TIMESHEET & ATTENDANCE

The web-based solution makes tracking employee shifts, breaks, and time approvals easier than ever. The software can be configured to fit your unique business needs; including time arrived on site, hours worked, business unit, or type of project. It can also connect to your payroll system easily.

Key Features

• Manage your employee attendance, track clock-in/clock-out time, and calculate the total number of hours worked
• Can easily integrate with biometric devices and has the ability to read various input formats
• Automatically track overtime and paid time off rules, save time, and reduce payroll errors
• Web clock-in/clock-out makes it easier for your employees to clock their hours from anywhere, anytime
• Track and analyze employees across various time off types. Examine carryover balances and trends to enhance time off policies
• Easily track employee hours and costs and export timesheets for seamless payroll processing
• Automate overtime rules, configure pay rates, and set complex overtime calculations for easy, accurate payroll
• The online platform makes it easy for you to manage remote workers. Employees can clock-in remotely, and the system will log their work sessions
• With the geofencing feature, employees can record attendance within predefined coordinates set for your organization or on-site client locations
• Create employees' schedules in minutes and manage time off, availability, and shift swap requests
• Robust reports will give you attendance summaries by day or week or month. Set custom date ranges, shifts, and more to get better insights into attendance reports

TIME-OFF MANAGEMENT (Leave Management)

The time off management module offers an easy way to submit, approve, and manage employee leave and availability. The advanced functionality offered by the solution makes leave management simple for both the employee and the employer. The system eliminates work involved in time off administration and employee follow-ups, saving time and operation costs.

Key Features

• Customize time off types and set up multiple time off policies as per your business needs
• The team calendar provides a quick overview to help managers make informed decisions regarding time off requests and approvals. It keeps employees informed about each other whereabouts and check who is on leave at any given time
• Employees can easily submit time off requests through their self-service dashboard. They will receive an automated email when their request was approved and updated in the work scheduler
• Managers can act on a time off request via email. Their response is automatically sent to the employees, so they know whether their request was approved or not
• Easily track employees’ time off information with detailed reports. Employees and managers will know how many vacation days are left and how many can be carried forward
• Automatically calculate time off accruals, carry-forwards, and lapses for employees, according to your organization's time-off policy
• Easily manage holidays, time offs, and events in a handy calendar environment

GOAL MANAGEMENT

Goal management module allows you to set goals with KPIs and align employees to the business goals. Define role-based templates for goals and competencies for the organization or a specific department.

Key Features

• A set of default goals help you quickly create and set clear employee objectives. Managers can set cascading goals and view individual, team, or business-wide progress
• Create goals from the existing templates and make changes as required. Each template provides a detailed action plan that gives you an idea on what to do to reach your own goals
• Automatic email notifications to managers/employees about upcoming and pending tasks. Empower managers to follow-up on overdue tasks that their team has to complete
• Easily align and review goals to ensure employees are focused on the right projects at the right time
• Real-time reports provide quick insight into goal progress and alignment for your entire team

PERFORMANCE REVIEW (will include 9BOX GRID)

A robust solution that dramatically simplifies the employee performance review process by providing easy-to-use features. It allows you to manage performance development, goal setting, and alignment of your employees with the tactical plan to drive better performance development.

Key Features

• Design, evaluate, and analyze reliable and accurate survey questionnaires, which unveil the relationship between a particular question’s characteristics and overall question quality
• Default review templates provide everything you need to accomplish employee performance evaluation. You can also customize them to suit the needs of your organization
• Develop high-performing employees and stronger teams with 360-degree appraisals that drive growth, productivity, and engagement
• Easily attach, monitor, and manage goals to employee performance reviews. Improve employee engagement with self-assessments, engage in continuous feedback, and track individual or business goal progress
• 9 box reporting helps rate employees’ leadership qualities based on their performance and potential scores. Plan the progression of each individual or plan for your organization’s future leadership positions
• Set data-driven goals and track the right metrics. Advanced reporting tools allow you to assess performance at multiple levels – the projects, teams, business units, individual employees, and more
• Use more current and accurate review scores seamlessly integrated with your compensation management systems to build a great pay-for-performance program to reward and retain your top talent
• Identify and address critical skill gaps and talent requirements at an organizational level, develop learning and development plans accordingly

COMPENSATION/REWARDS

Create and manage complete employee compensation plans across multiple teams, departments, and business units equally. Sync compensation with performance and business objectives, aggregate compensation data to view/edit it anytime. Ensure that your performing employees are rewarded fairly and in the most cost-effective way for the organization.

Key Features

• Set compensation strategies that keep employees engaged and align to business goals
• Easily set compensation plans within the guidelines of your agreed budget
• Align award categories to behaviors you want to support, base award levels on the effort required, and clearly communicate the value of reward packages
• Easily measure total pay and calculate merit, bonus, and stock requirements. Contextual analytics help you make better decisions
• Provides information regarding the typical minimum salary in regards to years of experience, ensuring you make better decisions and supporting you with salary forecasting

SUCCESSION

Succession planning helps you find potential succession gaps and aids in planning future recruitment needs within your organization. The solution provides insight into your leaders’ natural behaviors; how they build relationships, make decisions, appraise risk, and view change. It helps you plan a road map to their leadership development plan, exclusively customized to the individual, and enables them to make a more successful transition to the next position.

Key Features

• Plan employee performance and potential using a nine-box grid that offers a simple, graphical view of high-potential employees
• Quickly spot the best performers and group the diverse skills and competencies required in your enterprise into skill profiles and talent pools
• Create a personalized development path for talent and prepare the pipeline to ensure leadership stability
• Allow every employee to drive career development with personalized profiles where they can summarize skills, experience, and aspirations
• Identify what knowledge, skills, experience, and competencies are required for specific positions that allow employees to chart their career development
• Empower employees to create a personalized career path and reach their next career milestone more effectively

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

Create multiple plans and various options to auto-define, manage, and customize a full range of employee-specific benefits in a single interface to manage the eligibility/costs associated with it easily. The solution makes it very simple for employees to make changes to benefits when life changes occur, as well.

Key Features

• Manage employee health benefits efficiently and have complete control to administer benefits all through a single platform
• Provide worth life and disability insurance for your employees by managing policies that will give them peace of mind
• Help employees save money by letting them pay for transportation and parking expenses using pre-tax dollars, loaded on an easy-to-use debit card
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) make healthcare more affordable. Employees can easily enroll, track and manage funds via their Self Service dashboard
• Allow employees to quickly sign up for HSAs during open enrollment or any time after their HSA plan begins
• Comprehensive employee wellness programs that help enhance employee health and your company’s bottom line
• Generate Form 1094-C and Form 1095-C for individual employees including active, terminated, COBRA participants, and retirees

PAYROLL

Create and automate the most complex payroll procedures with ease and run your entire payroll process with just a click of a button. The solution allows both employees and HR executives to monitor the salaries, time off taken and available, tax details, etc. ensuring higher transparency.

Key Features

• Export all the data you need in just a few clicks ready to be imported straight into a payroll system
• Create earnings and deduction components and tag them to customized employee groups. The advanced formula builder tool accommodates complex logic and gives you complete control while designing your employees’ benefits
• Automatically deducts taxes during payroll processing, generates and files 1094s and 1095s reports
• Calculate paychecks, pay payroll taxes and files local, state, and federal payroll taxes on behalf of your company
• Automatically create tax documents such as W-2s, 1099s, and more, file them with the government agencies, and sent them directly to your employees
• Ensures payroll calculations are correct, takes care of filing and depositing your employment taxes to stay compliant with local, state, and federal laws

CUSTOM REPORTS

The solution provides various reports that help you set data-driven goals and track the right metrics. Real-time reports allow you to drill down into specific periods, data points, and comparisons, so you have the data you need to make critical business decisions.

Key Features

• Easy-to-use tools for building dynamic, database-driven reports with the pixel-perfect layout
• Create custom report templates and save them for future use. Customize reports through a simple online feature that enables instant drag-and-drop of required data
• Filter reports and view the information you need; can be exported to excel, pdf, and more with just a click of a button
• Create custom dashboards with various widgets presenting preferred KPIs
• Robust design tools help you built data-rich, sharp-looking reports with drag-n-drop ease
• Create reports together with your colleagues and share with them for better decision making

PROJECT TRACKING

Project management module helps you create project plans, execute reports, track scheduled tasks, resources, risks, changes, and issues. The solution handles time and tasks efficiently and enables you to keep track of your budget. It ensures that the right tasks are completed at the right time, the best way possible.

Key Features

• The easy-to-use drag-and-drop task manager allows you to create and assign tasks to team members, add comments, and keep track of each other’s progress
• Project phases, work packages, and milestones can be assigned to employees
• Split projects into groups of tasks and subtasks. Categorize and schedule tasks, set durations, and dependencies between them
• Interactive Gantt charts help you plan and control various projects at once. Advanced reports provide managers and employees a quick and easy way to view their company’s project management performance in real-time
• Create project & personal calendars, view resources and task deadlines, view key milestones, sync to Google Calendar, and easily share & print
• Centralize, track, and assign issues on tasks and projects. Track the workflow of a project, by defining its components and giving the details like budget, duration, and dependencies