Best HR Tools For Small Business

Deciding on the best HR tools for small business when you can only fund one comes down to a simple ordering. Obligations before experience.

Obligation tools cover the things you can be asked to produce. Employee records and terms. Leave and pay records. Policy issue and acknowledgement. Training assignment and completion. Incident capture.

Experience tools cover engagement surveys, recognition, org charts and career pathways. All genuinely good, none of which anybody can require of you.

Buy the first group first. Not because experience does not matter, but because a gap there costs you goodwill and a gap in the first group costs you a defence.

Once obligations are covered properly, the experience tools also work better, because the data underneath them is accurate.

The Fair Work Ombudsman sets out what must be kept. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s workplace compliance system and HR software.