HR Tools For Small Business

HR tools for small business get adopted one at a time, and the result is a stack nobody designed.

A spreadsheet for leave. A shared drive for contracts. A form tool for onboarding. Email for approvals. Something separate for training records.

Each was sensible on its own. Together they mean the same person is entered five times, nothing agrees, and the answer to any question requires opening four things.

The cost is invisible because it is spread across everybody’s week. It becomes visible when somebody asks for a record and the search takes an afternoon.

The test is whether a change in one place reaches everywhere else. If it does not, you have tools rather than a system, and at some headcount that stops working.

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

See Sentrient’s HR software and records management software.