Best HR Systems For Small Businesses

Comparing the best HR systems for small businesses usually turns into a feature grid, and feature grids reward products built for organisations ten times your size.

A more useful test is the ordinary week. How long does it take to approve leave from a phone. How many steps to add a starter. Whether an employee can update their own bank details without asking anybody. How you correct something for twenty people at once. Whether you can get a record out in a usable format.

Then add the two Australian questions. Does it handle leave properly, including long service leave across states. And can it produce employee records for the period you are required to keep them.

Everything else on the grid is negotiable, and most of it will sit unused.

The Fair Work Ombudsman publishes the record requirements. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

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