Our Pick Of The Best Employee Management Software May 2024

As soon as a new employee joins your team, monday.com makes them feel welcome (and takes their questions off your plate) with automated onboarding. They’ll clearly be able to see their schedule of activities and tasks, and you can follow along as they complete each step in the process.

When it comes time to manage performance reviews and feedback, monday.com also excels with premade workflows that allow for direct communication between managers and their reports. You can see who’s up for review and schedule 1-on-1s all from your main dashboard.

Tracking employees’ satisfaction levels is also easy thanks to the ability to plan well-being activities and survey workers after each one. You’ll be able to find out which activities they enjoy – and which they don’t find valuable.

Paid time off (PTO) is another dreaded task to manage—but it’s a little easier with monday.com. You’ll see all leave requests come in on a specific dashboard. From there, you can sort them by department, week and date to make them easier to approve or deny. Managers can receive reminders if they wait too long to approve while employees can get notifications after their pending request is finalised.

monday.com also lets you create your own workflow if you have other projects or plans in mind. Switch between table, timeline, Kanban, chart or calendar mode to make it easy to completely customise your employee management experience.

Learn more: Read our full monday.com review.

Paycor offers talent management, workforce management, employee experience and benefits administration tools to make managing your workers simple. Its scheduling tools let you assign shifts with a few clicks and then send real-time notifications and reminders to update your employees. Employees also have the option to set their availability and pick up open shifts in real-time.

You can ensure workers are satisfied by conducting employee pulse surveys to monitor low morale and identify potential problems. These results are collected into executive insights, which can then be shared with the leadership team. Even more intriguing is the use of natural language processing in every survey. This is meant to help you identify hidden opinions and attitudes employees might have that they aren’t sharing.

Developing and educating employees is key to improving the company, and Paycor does this by providing built-in, self-paced training modules. You can organise training programs and personalise content depending on a worker’s department or team. These modules can help you stay compliant with learning or licensing regulations.

We also like Paycor’s career progression tools. The software makes it easy to define a role’s responsibilities so you can make sure everyone’s on the same page when it comes to expectations. Action-oriented performance assessments are created based on the job description so employees see exactly where and how to improve.

Workday’s best feature is its global-friendly setup. It can help you manage employees in more than 200 countries, including helping you stay compliant with labour laws, taxes, benefit packages and more.

Not only that, but you can also help to engage and develop your employees based on their roles. Workday comes loaded with career development tools, such as job interest assessments and talent reviews so you can assess what your employees are best at while fostering new skills. You can then label what skills each employee has to make it easy to see where your company is the strongest and where you might need to improve. If employees want to transition to a new role, they can view the skills they need and pursue built-in learning experiences to get there.

We also like its integration with your company’s finances. If you choose to use this part of the app, it could help you visualise workforce costs and trends that could be bogging down your company. Of course, it also simplifies payroll, with both clock-in/clock-out and pay-on-demand features.

Full disclosure: ClickUp isn’t specifically an employee management software. But that’s what makes it so unique. As a project management software, it lets you customise your interface specifically to your needs through tasks, folders, lists and docs. You can choose from over 100 premade HR templates or build your own depending on what you want—which is handy if you want to make it heavily localised for Australian users.

In particular, we think the one-on-one template is useful for employee management. It lets you define individual roles for each employee, as well as their expectations and a meeting agenda. Along the same lines is a 30-60-90 day plan that helps you set goals for both new hires and seasoned veterans. Career pathing makes it easy for employees to see the next step in their future, while a board skills matrix helps you keep track of everyone’s capabilities.

ClickUp can also be used to conduct engagement surveys (through the Likert scale) and performance evaluations. Managers can even use daily reporting to send updates to their direct reports, record issues and share feedback across the team. All data is collected securely so it’s only seen by the people you choose.

Learn more: Read our full ClickUp review.

Rippling bills itself as a single source of truth for your HR, information technology (IT) and finance departments, and we agree. In particular, its HR software features robust automations that you can set up using an if/then infrastructure. This can be used for something as simple as PTO requests or as complicated as gender compensation inequity alerts. Time and attendance can also be highly automated, reducing the time it takes to review schedules and hours worked.

Our favourite feature of this powerful tool is the training modules. Rippling lets you build rules for all employment courses, as well as track the progress of who’s mid-course and who hasn’t started. You can upload your own Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) e-learning packages or use one of Rippling’s 1,000-plus courses, including modules on sexual harassment and cybersecurity. You can even prevent employees from clocking in before they finish certain training modules.

BambooHR lets you easily manage every employee in the company with an all-in-one database. You can access all of an employee’s historical data – including compensation raises, title changes, start dates and more – from one easy-to-read record. This database connects with every feature of the BambooHR software – as well as third-party integrations – meaning you don’t have to double-enter anything. To keep things simpler on your end, you can enable self-service edits while also limiting an employee’s access to sensitive data.

We like BambooHR’s employee satisfaction tools. Built-in surveys let you use the Net Promoter Score method to take your company’s pulse. Surveys are also totally anonymous so employees are more honest about their opinions. To help you quickly identify the main concerns, the survey software also offers intelligent keyword tagging and a most-mentioned topics report.

You can also check on employees’ well-being with surveys that use a six-point scale that eliminates neutral answers. Every question has a free-response section so they can go into more detail, potentially providing you with key insights. You have the option to send these surveys monthly, bimonthly or quarterly to monitor changes.