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Employment Hero
What Is Employment Hero?
HR, Payroll and People Management, from anywhere. Connecting employers and employees in the new world of work. With native integration to XERO, MYOB & Keypay, you can streamline admin heavy tasks and spend more time on the things that are important to you.
Over 200k organisations use Employment Hero and together we collectively manage over 1m employees.
Who Uses Employment Hero?
Business Owners, HR Managers, Payroll Managers, People and Culture Managers, CEOs, GMs, Payroll, HR and Business Advisors
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Reviews of Employment Hero
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Our first 6 months utilising Employment Hero
Comments: Overall it has been an important tool that has made growing our team a lot easier and ensured we are supporting our team ensuring we are following all the best practices of HR.
Pros:
Employment Hero was the first time we were introducing an HR Platform within the business. The fact that it has a rewards program was very exciting to the team and created buy-in which allowed us to create engagement through the team. Having a great policy and performance review templates allowed us to create processes around how we engage with our team and set standards.
Cons:
Not being able to customise colours on the UI to match branding.
Employment Hero Response
2 years ago
Hi Dayna, Thank you for your lovely review- we really appreciate your support! I've passed on your feedback about UI colour customisation to our Product Team. Many thanks, Rosie
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Employment Hero was supposed to make our life easier...
Comments: Overall, the platform has decreased the amount of time we were spending on the HR & Payroll function, our biggest win was the automation of the onboarding process.We are still struggling (nearly 18 months down the track) with some of the Rule Sets in the payroll function that do not work how they need to - we are manually adjusting some payslips every week.The support team are not very supportive in the first instance. We have been left high and dry and missed the bank cutoff on our pay day on several occasions because of their lack of response - which has meant that 150+ people got paid a day late - not ideal. Once you actually get in contact with a support person, they are generally quite helpful, however, I am still waiting on a response to a support ticket that was placed over 4 months ago - seems its too hard, so they are just ignoring me. Even the Customer Success Manager has not followed it up.New features are rolled out without proper testing - for instance, the paid break feature. It seems that they are intent on creating new features that are not crucial to our business and leaving the core functionality behind.Should have gone with Elmo.
Pros:
The automation - onboarding, leave requests, timesheets, payroll.The app - mobile HR on the go.
Cons:
The implementation phase - we completed as many checks as we could, but as a manufacturing business that has hourly paid & salaried staff, with multiple shifts across 2 sites & a specific Enterprise Agreement, we could not identify every single scenario, so after we rolled it out, there we unforeseen issues that we were just left to deal with. Once the implementation team completed the implementation to their satisfaction, they wiped their hands of us and handed us over to the support team, who never answer the phone and take their time to respond to your queries.The system is not flexible - there are several feature requests that we have put through because it just doesn't work as we need it to. The reporting needs to be better - the graphs are pretty, but I would like to be able to download the data behind them - some reports you can, some you can't. The goals module may work for professional services businesses, but not for manufacturing.The payroll platform reporting also needs to be more flexible - you can only create custom reports on certain things. We need to slice & dice information and the only way to do that is to manipulate it in Excel.The integration of the HR & Payroll platforms. Leave requests & expense reimbursements do not integrate from HR to Payroll. Neither do terminated employees integrate from Payroll to HR - if you terminate someone in Payroll, you have to replicate it in HR, so double-handling.That stupid app SWAG - should never have changed it.
Employment Hero Response
7 months ago
Hi Charlie, Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with Employment Hero. I'm truly sorry to hear that the implementation phase did not meet your expectations and that you've faced some challenges with our support times too. I've passed on your feedback to our team, who has been working to address and resolve these challenges with you. We take all customer feedback seriously and appreciate your honest review. I wanted to assure you that behind the scenes we're implementing a number of initiatives to improve your overall experience, and feedback like this is crucial to the success of these initiatives. If you have any further concerns or feedback, please do not hesitate to reach out to us. We value your business and appreciate the opportunity to serve you. Many thanks, Anna @ Employment Hero
Employment hero is amazing payroll end to end software, Only when it works
Comments: Experience with "key pay" was great and I myself configured and rolled out the new payroll system. It performed very well and now I have to look for something else has since "Employment hero" took over, it has been very slow and unreliable. Sometimes my staff do not get paid just because the payroll system is so slow that the pay run is not finished, and we do not meet cut-off times. Pathetic.
Pros:
Customizable. user friendly interface, Ease of use and easy to coach to new payroll person.
Cons:
Too slow, almost every Monday. Therefore, no matter how good your product is, if it's slow and frustrating, then it has already failed. It was good when it used to be called "key pay". I guess expansion cannot necessarily be sustained.
Employment Hero Response
last week
Hi Rajesh, Thanks for your review and feedback. I am glad to hear that you find using our platform easy-to-use and intuitive. I'm interested in your feedback about speed, as I haven't come across this before. Please note that status updates for our platform are always available at: https://status.employmenthero.com/ If you continue to encounter this issue, please reach out to our support team. You can do this by logging into the platform as an admin, clicking the support button in the bottom right corner, and following the prompts. I hope we can work together to turn your overall experience around. Many thanks, Rosie @ Employment Hero
Think twice.
Comments: If a seamless user experience and reliable software that's easy to use is important to you, do not choose Employment Hero. It has been working OK (just) since ironing out most of the problems but not work the time and money to get to this stage. The HR and Payroll software are clearly sold separately because the look and feel is different and you need to instruct managers to perform actions in one platform, despite being able to do it in another, causing confusion.
Pros:
The ability for employees to update their own personal information. Contract templates are helpful for those who don't have an internal legal or large HR department.
Cons:
The integration between the two products - HR and payroll is awful. They often don't communicate with each other seamlessly and you are required to learn by trial and error due to the poor deployment processes and cumbersome workflow regarding setup. Customer Service is helpful most of the time but you will be passed through numerous people who do not explain the fundamental use of all the features. Too much emphasis is on knowing the hundreds of pages of instructions and features. Timekeeping apps (Clock Me In/Workzone) are simply terrible.
Employment Hero Response
3 years ago
Hi Kim, Thank your for your feedback. We're sorry to hear that your experience with Employment Hero hasn't been as seamless as we'd like it to be. We'll be reaching out directly to reach a resolution and hope that we can get things back on track. Thank you again, Anna from Employment Hero
Great HRIS!
Comments: Great automation of what used to be heavy processes
Pros:
One stop shop for all your recruitment, HR records, payroll, and talent management!
Cons:
Would like all managers to be able to access more in the talent management
Employment Hero Response
last week
Hi Jen, Thanks for your review of Employment Hero! It's so wonderful to hear you're getting so much value from the platform. We truly appreciate your support. Many thanks, Rosie @ Employment Hero
