What is the Best HR Software?

Certain systems fit some companies better than others. But there are some underlying principles to consider as you weigh up what solution’s best for you.

Here are some points we think to differentiate between a good system and a great system.

What Makes The Best HR Software?

The best HR software includes:

• A simple, user-friendly, and easy-to-navigate interface. Workflows are distilled and purified rather than dumbed down. Uncluttered processes fit the widest range of company cultures and policies, from draconian, micromanaging environments to enabling maximum output and trust from modern flexi-time policies and remote teams.
• Best practice principles for the workplace of the future. Work-life balance, freedom and trust are foundational principles of future work, regardless of technology. Why? Because the most skilled workers demand it, and the best talent equals success!
• Input from HR professionals from all sides of the fence. When it comes to selecting the best HR software, it's critical to include a range of HR professionals, from recruitment, consultancy, admin, and managers who see HR as a business process, not ‘people problems’. Developing a system to enter a massive marketplace with some token consultancy from ‘domain experts’ just isn’t enough.
• Automation that allows you to unlock your team’s potential and productivity. Who wouldn’t enable their teams to be free to do their best work?
• A strong emphasis on employee self-service and shared responsibility for data integrity and training needs.
• Compliance mechanisms that ensure responsibilities are met. These aren't built purely with dodging litigation in mind – or sold with the fear of such consequences.
• Secure delivery and hosting via the cloud on any device without compatibility issues or restrictions.
• Updates and extensions in the price plan.
• Any individual or horizontal function can painlessly and rapidly deploy it, not just HR alone. 
• A system that's transparent and easy to pick up by new team members, and not something closely guarded by HR to protect their function.
• Logs actions, records, values, and reports on them quickly and easily. Data at your fingertips is critical without needing complicated slicing and dicing.
• Enables proactive lifelong learning and career development by giving a visible analysis of developmental needs and by monitoring training gaps.
• Gives peace of mind over calculations for entitlements.
• Works end-to-end from creating a job spec through the recruitment pipeline to onboarding and documenting the entire time a team member spends with an organisation – and beyond for record-keeping purposes.
• Suits any size of organisation, from small businesses, agile, growing teams, through to the most forward-thinking enterprise-level firms.
• Has scalable pricing and features models that fit with growth and expansion.
• Keep to their word with strong backup and levels of ‘human‘ support.
• Ultimately, it makes a massive contribution to making the workplace a better place to be for all!