What Is a HRMS

What is a HRMS? A human resource management system, and beyond that the term means whatever the person using it needs it to mean.

There is no standards body defining the acronym. One vendor uses it for a payroll engine with an employee portal. Another uses it for a recruitment and onboarding tool with no payroll at all. A third uses it for everything including learning and performance.

That matters when comparing products, because a feature comparison across three vendors is often comparing three different categories of product.

The practical response is to stop comparing acronyms and list the processes you actually need to run. Then ask each vendor which of those it does natively, which it does through an integration, and which it does not do.

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

See Sentrient’s HR management system and employee management system.