10 Best Employee Management Systems For 2022

monday.com is marketing mainly as a workflow tool for scaling organizations, but they’ve also built in several HR features, many of which can be used well for employee management. The platform has features to build collaborative workflows and schedules, assign tasks and projects to your team, track time, report on key performance indicators (KPIs), solicit feedback from your staff, and send automated reminders for important to-dos.

Managers will appreciate the customizable reports and dashboards which can display valuable metrics needed for employee management: capacity limitations, progress tracking, time management, budget totals, and missed deadline warnings.

Part of managing your employees is making sure they aren’t bogged down in admin and data entry when they could best be using their skills elsewhere. monday.com offers automations that can handle basic, recurring tasks without live intervention, freeing up your people for more creative and complex work.

monday.com’s integrations include project management apps like Slack, Google Workspace, Gmail, Google Calendar, Jira, GitHub, Trello, Dropbox, Typeform and many more, accessible through a paid plan with Zapier.

monday.com costs from $8/user/month and offers a free trial.

Deel is a global employee management platform that enables hiring in over 150 countries. You can hire full-time employees from anywhere in the world and manage their payroll, compliance, and administration from one single platform.

Deel gives you management features for both contractors and employees. For employees, Deel works as the employer of record, handling payroll and benefits, so you don’t need to open up a foreign entity. Their full-featured UI also includes features such as contract management, expense reimbursements, and off-cycle payroll adjustments too.

Compared to other employee management systems, Deel stands out with several new offerings over the past year, including global payroll, global mobility support, integrated Slack tools, and advanced integrations. The global mobility service helps companies with visa sponsorship, allowing them to bring in candidates from abroad. The Slack plugins can be used to create an accessible organizational chart, provide self-service PTO management, and even track applicant referrals.

Deel integrates with major HR and accounting platforms and complies with SOC2 and ISO 27001 security standards, meaning it follows international guidelines for securing your data.

Deel offers flat rate pricing upon request, as well as a free demo.

Eddy is an all-in-one HR Suite built for small, local businesses. With Eddy, businesses can hire, onboard, manage, and pay employees with one easy-to-use software.

Founded in 2017 by former professional basketball player turned entrepreneur, Travis Hansen, Eddy has grown rapidly due to its simple but powerful product, highly-rated customer service, and focus on local businesses with deskless workforces.

Key features include job posting management, tracking incoming candidates, and a full-scale applicant tracking system (ATS). The onboarding system lets HR managers create custom onboarding packages, assign tasks, and easily collect digital signatures.

A core function of Eddy is people management—users can access company directories and store important employee documents, notes on performance, and training and certifications in employee profiles. You can also create custom PTO policies and approve or deny requests; tap into their time tracking tool, which allows employees to easily clock in and clock out; and navigate payroll processes using Eddy’s full-service payroll system that includes support for multiple pay periods and end-of-year W-2 preparation, filing, and distribution.

Eddy starts at $8/employee/month plus a $49 base fee, and offers a free demo.

SAP SuccessFactor is an engagement-focus HR tool that offers flexible employee surveys, role-based dashboards and reporting, customizable impact reports, event-based triggers, and employee rewards programs.

SAP SuccessFactor scored highly in regards to the Value for Cost criteria. Not only does it have a very reasonable entry price but the software also has a free trial, ensuring potential customers are only paying for a tool they are comfortable with.

There is a bit of a coherence issue with the different modules they offer, which were once separate “add on” products and which still often feel that way. The meshing from one module item to the next is often clumsy, resulting in additional menuing or log-ins.

SAP SuccessFactors starts at $8/user/month and has a free trial.

Workday has employee management systems for medium- and large-sized businesses and offers tools to recruit and develop team talent with features like head-count visualization, financial trend analysis, and support for regulations such as probation and notice periods.

Workday is both extremely user-friendly and has a smart, clean interface design. This scored them favorably in both the usability and UX categories of the evaluation criteria.

Reporting functions are a bit lackluster compared to other software in the field; the tool doesn’t do a great job of ingesting equity data, particularly vesting data.

Workday offers pricing upon request.

Leapsome’s all-in-one platform helps companies strengthen their employee satisfaction through a comprehensive suite of tools focused on employee engagement, performance and learning & development. Their performance review system includes modern elements like 360 degree feedback, agile project reviews, and anonymous leadership reviews, to give employees a voice during the feedback process. Goal setting is also well-integrated into the system so employees always know what’s expected of them, and how their goals are contributing to the bigger picture.

To help with employee upskilling, their learning and development module can create learning paths using customized curriculum, or curated third-party content from their built-in learning library. Knowledge acquisition can also be measured using short quizzes with a variety of question formats. Their learning path dashboard also makes it easy to keep track of internal enrollment numbers, progress status, and completion rates for individuals or at the company-wide level.

Leapsome integrates with 15+ common HR software applications including Personio, BambooHR, Bob, Workday, Rippling, PayFit, ADP, Active Directory, SFTP, Okta, OneLogin, GSuite, Slack, Jira Software, Microsoft Teams and common calendar apps.

Leapsome costs from $8/user/month. A 14-day free trial and free demo are also available.

Used by Spotify and HubSpot, 15five is designed to build an engaging work culture through weekly check-ins, dedicated 1-on-1s, self-review tools, and a recognition system whereby employees can pass along “High Fives” for good work.

15five’s array of mood and wellbeing tests make it stand out as an HR tool with a purpose. The UX is colorful, easy to use, and many functions are gamified, making it ripe for user adoption.

This employee management system lost a few marks in the evaluation section for Features – Reporting, as there was no way to prioritize or sort manager-assigned “High Fives” in order to better draw out top performers.

15five starts at $4/user/month (billed annually) and has a free trial.

Zenefits has created an HRIS platform that alleviates common HR headaches by integrating core HR functions like payroll, benefits, and time-off tracking, all within one system. In their higher service tiers, modules are also available for compensation management, performance management and several in-depth employee engagement tools.

Their automated and fully digital onboarding process supports offer letters, background checks, e-signatures, and employee self-onboarding. Once new staff enter their personal details, the information is automatically synced to benefits and payroll without the need for additional HR admin support. The platform is also accessible via mobile devices, making it easy for new staff to get up-to-speed even before day one.

Zenefits integrates with 45+ applications including Google Suite, Office 365, Slack, Salesforce, Expensify, Bonusly, BetterWorks, Zapier, and many others.

Zenefits costs from $8/user/month. A 14-day free trial and free demo are also available.

Gusto is an all-in-one HR solution with scalable pricing and features that work for smaller businesses with simple salary structures all the way up to complex, sophisticated international teams. Their Core level functions primarily as a payroll system with hiring and onboarding tools, with additional support for benefits management included. Their platform really comes alive at the Complete level, which includes team management tools, performance reviews, time-off management, and employee engagement features.

Gusto’s full-service payroll automatically files your corporate taxes with each payroll run, and includes a helpful AutoPilot feature to make submitting payroll even faster than most other systems. In today’s work-from-anywhere world, it’s common to have a global workforce, rather than all employees residing in the same place. Gusto has you covered there too, as it supports payments to international contractors in over 80 countries. As well, it also has a built-in device management tracking system that helps with inventory control, network access, and keeping your company data secure.

The list of integrations for Gusto is very comprehensive, with over 135 options to choose from. Commonly used options include Asana, Bonusly, ChartHop, DropBox, GitHub, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Sage Accounting, Salesforce, Shopify, Slack, Webex, Zipbooks and Zoom.

Gusto costs from $6/employee/month plus a $39/month base fee. A 30-day free trial is also available.

With over 33 million users to date, Saba is an HR solution that focuses on ways to decrease turnover, optimize the workforce organization, prepare succession planning, and build the employer brand in a way that attracts top-quality talent.

Saba scored well in the Usability section of the evaluation, simply because of the vast number of resources they offer for training and learning. They have eBooks, guides, templates, checklists, webinars, product tours, How-Tos, and case studies.

Software navigation is not entirely intuitive. For example, user data is split into multiple centers in the backend, the User Center and the Appraisal Process, which can be a bit confusing.

Saba offers pricing upon request and has a free demo.