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HR software to help your business grow

Outdated HR processes can hold your business back. Modern HR software streamlines how you attract, develop, and retain talent. With the right tools, watch your team become more engaged and productive, driving the growth your business needs.

Sage HCM

Cloud-based HR and payroll platform to confidently manage your workforce at scale. 

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Sage HR

Easy-to-use HR software that connects you and your people.

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What are the benefits of HR software?

Streamline HR tasks with software that enhances employee experience, supports career growth, boosts productivity, and provides insights into people operations.

Streamlined HR processes

Our HR systems automate tasks like vacation approvals and expired document alerts, minimizing manual effort and preventing costly errors.

Empower employees with self-service

Employee self-service empowers staff to own and manage their data, reducing reliance on HR teams and ensuring more accurate, up-to-date information. Our HR software promotes engagement, improving the employee experience by providing better access to HR data.

Clear insights from HR reporting and analytics

Sage HR systems provide powerful insights, enabling HR teams to make informed, data-driven decisions backed by accurate, actionable data.

Centralized employee data

Our HR management software centralizes all employee data and documents in one secure location, making it easier to access, update, and analyze information. This streamlined approach strengthens data protection and compliance with relevant laws and regulations, safeguarding your business.

HR software features

HR management software gives businesses the tools to efficiently manage employee-related tasks.

HR reports and data

Use reports to help your business make impactful decisions backed by accurate people data.

Leave management

Track and manage employee time off with our HR solutions. Automate requests, approvals, and vacation balances.

Performance management

Streamline reviews, set goals, track progress, and foster development with real-time feedback.

Recruitment

Use HR software to post jobs, filter applicants, schedule interviews, and onboard new hires.

Timesheets

Automate time record submissions, ensure accurate tracking, and process payroll accurately.

Automated workflows

Our workflows automate HR tasks like creating, scheduling, and collecting employee survey responses.

Access our HR software anytime, anywhere

Mobile HR software allows managers and employees to access and self-serve at their convenience.

Help your staff thrive with HR software solutions

Sage HCM

Empower your team with a modern, cloud-based HR and payroll platform. Take control, get real-time visibility, and confidently manage a growing workforce. 

  • Manage your workforce lifecycle in a single system.
  • Get real-time visibility into workforce costs and performance.
  • Ensure compliance with built-in controls and local expertise.
  • Empower employees with simple self-service and mobile access.
  • Make faster, smarter decisions with connected people and financial insights.
 

Sage HR

Solve your HR challenges. Onboard your employees, automate your HR processes and get meaningful insights.

  • Achieve full visibility of your remote workforce, with an online employee database that’s your single source of truth.
  • Give your employees instant and remote self-service access to everything they need, like company policies, updates, absence to time-off requests, schedules, and more.
  • Enable your people to request time off, check vacation balance and see who’s away, any time, anywhere.
  • Share goals and priorities to unite team efforts while you can’t be in the office. Align with your company vision, and keep track of progress.
  • Easily handle receipts without unnecessary trips to the office. Employees submit expenses simply by photographing the receipt directly from the mobile app.

Sage HRMS

A complete on-premise HR management solution that will help you maximize every dollar you invest in your employees.

  • Save time with accurate, in-house, and flexible payroll processing
  • Collect, analyze, and manage employee time and attendance data
  • Go paperless and eliminate time-consuming clerical work
  • Manage your employee benefits and open enrollment process  seamlessly
  • Make smarter decisions about your people with interactive analytics
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Sage People

Great people make a great business. Unlock the potential of human resources to bring out the best in your talent.

  • All your people information in a single, secure system of record, with access on any browser or device
  • Get accurate and reliable analytics for smarter people decisions
  • Hire the best people, faster, with paperless onboarding
  • Empower your people to manage their own HR tasks
  • Engage your workforce via a tailored and branded self-service portal
  • Benefit from unparalleled reliability and security, while meeting global and local compliance requirements

Anthony Cummings 
Director of Infrastructure and Operations, Tenth Revolution Group

“Sage People enables us to improve the way we do things and make our employee experiences even better.”

HR software FAQs

HR software is a suite of applications that helps businesses deal with employee administration, making life easier for HR staff, but also catering to the needs of the employees. At a minimum, it covers core HR tasks like tracking time and attendance, managing employee databases, and distributing important internal announcements. Popular solutions also provide self-service options so employees can update their own data.
 
However, an HR management system can go far beyond that, often including modules that handle talent management, recruitment, onboarding, performance reviews, and career development.

The software interconnects with various systems storing employee data, such as payroll and performance, to accurately retrieve up-to-date information. This information can then be displayed in a user-friendly format, processed through advanced analytics, and used to guide critical workforce decisions.
 
In effect, repetitive, admin-heavy tasks are automated, allowing HR staff to focus on more strategic tasks like employee engagement, talent development, and building a positive workplace culture.

Solutions like Sage People and Sage HR are designed to support your compliance journey, helping you adhere to US employment laws and regulations. We simplify the management of staff, leave (like maternity/paternity), and reporting requirements (such as W2s).
  
These tools are especially suitable for Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), making them ideal for organizations with limited HR staff. Additionally, Sage HR meets the preference for affordable, user-friendly tools among smaller companies.
  
Sage People offers a customizable portal experience for both your business and employees while delivering powerful insights for data-driven decision-making. This product streamlines HR processes, boosting productivity, and supports agile business practices with configurable workflows. You can manage talent, track performance, and control the workforce experience within one unified system, no matter where your people are located.

All companies can benefit from HR software, because all companies are in a battle to save costs. The challenge is to ascertain how much budget you have and look for a solution that addresses your particular pain points within that price range. 
 
One of the most common challenges in HR is dealing with the growth of the business, which has obvious implications on recruitment but also in the day-to-day administration of greater numbers of employees. 
 
A particularly successful business area may trigger high employee turnover, as professionals assess better opportunities in the market. Additionally, companies with remote or geographically dispersed employees have an extra layer of complexity that HR software can keep in order.
 
Businesses may also see a need for HR software in handling the complexities of labor laws, tax regulations, and reporting requirements.

By automating most HR processes, this kind of software saves time and minimizes errors, reducing the HR team’s administrative burden. A key feature is centralization of employee data, which ensures that information is accurate, up-to-date, and easily accessible.
 
These solutions allow the HR team to spend more time addressing the needs of individual employees and devising motivational activities. Investing in employees’ career development is beneficial to the company in the long run, fostering employee engagement and a positive atmosphere in the workplace.
 
Another way HR software makes employees feel more engaged is through self-service portals, where they can request time off or enter insurance details.
 
The HR system also gives management teams instant access to key metrics like employee turnover, performance trends, and training effectiveness. This helps leaders optimize company resources and adjust business strategies accordingly.

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