How to Choose the Right HRMS for Your Business

How to choose the right HRMS for your business is usually approached by booking demos, which means the vendors set the criteria.

A better sequence starts with what you must be able to prove. Employee records kept and retrievable for the required period. Policies issued, acknowledged and versioned. Training assigned, completed and followed up. Leave accrued correctly, including long service leave across states. Incidents recorded and actioned.

Write those as questions and ask every vendor to show you the evidence output, not the input screen.

Then test the dull things. How many clicks it takes to approve leave on a phone. How you correct an error across two hundred people. What a manager can see about somebody who is not on their team.

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

See Sentrient’s HR management system and workplace compliance system.