Best Core HR Software For Small Business

Choosing the best core HR software for small business is easier once core is defined, because vendors use the word loosely.

Core covers the employee record, employment terms, leave, documents, and the ability to produce any of it later. It is the part you have obligations about.

Outside core sits recruitment, performance, learning, engagement and analytics. All useful, none urgent at small scale, and each one adds configuration work and another thing to keep current.

Buying core first and adding later is a workable path. Buying everything at once and switching most of it on is how a small team ends up with a system nobody maintains and reverts to spreadsheets alongside.

Ask what you can turn off, not just what you get.

The Fair Work Ombudsman covers the records you must hold. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s HR software and records management software.