The Most User-Friendly HRIS Systems in 2022 (with screenshots)

One of the biggest priorities for an HRIS buyer is finding a system that is intuitive, so that their employees and managers can easily navigate the system and take on more self-service tasks. However, it's not always easy to figure out which systems are best from a user interface standpoint. Here's the top 10

Brett Ungashick
OutSail HRIS Advisor
July 4, 2023
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OutSail works with hundreds of businesses every year to help them select the right HRIS system. And while companies always have different needs and requirements, one commonality is that user interfaces matter.

Buyers want to ensure that the system will be navigable and intuitive for their tasks, but it's also equally important to ensure the system is straightforward for employees so that admins can offload more work to their team through employee self-service.

In this article, you can learn about the 10 best HRIS vendors of 2022 from a user interface perspective, and you can see some recent screenshots of each platform.

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BambooHR

Average Customer Size: 25-350 employees

Founded in 2008, BambooHR has steadily risen to become a market leader in the SMB and Mid-Market. Bamboo offers a modern user interface and a wide breadth of modules - performance, recruiting, onboarding - all at a competitive price point. While Bamboo owns a payroll company, called Trax, many customers will use their own payroll / ben admin tools and use Bamboo for more employee-facing activities. Bamboo is also open to integrating with a variety of 3rd party HR tools

  • Modules Offered: HRIS, Payroll, Time & Attendance, ATS, Onboarding, Performance, Engagement
  • Not included: Ben Admin, Learning, Compensation
  • Price range: $8-14 PEPM



Hibob

Average Customer Size: 50-500 employees

Vendor Snapshot: Hibob is a great solution for modern companies that want culture at the center of their organization. Unlike most HRIS's that began as payroll vendors, Hibob started with performance, engagement and compensation at the core of their product. The emphasis on employee engagement leads to high usage from employees and better reporting for companies. Additionally, Bob is a global company and their solution is a strong fit for multi-national companies.

  • Modules offered: HRIS, Performance, Engagement, Onboarding, Time & Attendance
  • Not included: Payroll, Ben Admin, ATS
  • Price range: $8-14 PEPM


Rippling

Average Customer Size: 25-300 employees

Vendor Snapshot: Rippling is the fastest growing companies in the HRIS industry today. Rippling takes a very modern approach to the market by emphasizing employee experience, integrations and people management. Rippling's integrations go beyond HR point solutions and can also work with tools like Slack, Teams, Salesforce and more. This can save IT hours of headaches, especially at companies with white collar workforces that use many business apps.

  • Modules offered: HRIS, Ben Admin, Payroll, Onboarding, Time & Attendance, Learning, ATS
  • Not included: Performance, Engagement
  • Price range: $21-30 PEPM

Gusto

Average Customer Size: 3-50 employees

Vendor Snapshot: Gusto is the modern leader in small business payroll. This space has been dominated by ADP and Paychex for years, but Gusto's modern user interface and ease-of-use have made them a popular choice for new companies. In the last few years, Gusto has adding benefits admin, time tracking and onboarding capabilities to the system to provide more value to clients

  • Modules offered: HRIS, Ben Admin, Payroll, Onboarding, Time & Attendance (limited)
  • Not included: Performance, Engagement, Learning, ATS
  • Price range: $10-22 PEPM

GoCo

Average Customer Size: 20-250 employees

Vendor Snapshot: GoCo provides sleek, easy-to-use HR tools with some surprisingly robust capabilities under-the-hood. GoCo's strengths are around onboarding, benefits admin and leave management, but they have also developed unique expertise to facilitate payroll integrations and have rolled out a workflow builder tool that allows HR teams to build automated processes from scratch.

  • Modules offered: HRIS, Ben Admin, Onboarding, Time & Attendance (limited), Performance
  • Not included: Payroll, Engagement, Learning, ATS
  • Price range: $6-12 PEPM

Paylocity

Average Customer Size: 50-500 employees

Vendor Snapshot: Paylocity started off as a payroll vendor and has the second most payroll clients (behind only ADP). Over time, however, they have developed a full suite HRIS system that can serve as a one-stop-shop for companies. The system is designed for mid-market companies and gets above average reviews for ease of use. Paylocity is strong in integrations and can support companies with global workforces too.

  • Modules offered: HRIS, Ben Admin, Payroll, Onboarding, Performance, Time & Attendance, Learning, ATS
  • Price range: $17-24 PEPM

Zenefits

Average Customer Size: 200-250 employees

Vendor Snapshot: Zenefits offers a sleek, easy-to-use HRIS platform that is used by many growing, modern companies. Zenefits' platform can cover all Core HR needs including payroll, HRIS, onboarding, time and performance. And the only modules they don’t make in-house are an ATS and LMS, where they partner with market leaders instead.

  • Modules offered: HRIS, Payroll, Ben Admin, Onboarding, Time & Attendance, Performance
  • Not included: Engagement, Learning, ATS
  • Price range: $15-22 PEPM


ADP Workforce Now

Average Customer Size: 50-2,500 employees

Vendor Snapshot: ADP Workforce Now is a full suite HRIS system that has end-to-end capabilities, covering everything from payroll, benefits and HR to recruiting, onboarding, performance and learning. Workforce Now is utilized by companies of all shapes and sizes, but their strongest audience is in the Mid-Market. ADP is known for their strengths around payroll and tax filing, and also provides expertise to support virtually any business scenario. ADP also has a unique outsourced service, called Comp Services, that allows companies to put their payroll processing and benefits management on auto-pilot.

  • Modules offered: HRIS, Ben Admin, Payroll, Onboarding, Performance, Time & Attendance, Learning, ATS
  • Price range: $22-27 PEPM

Namely

Average Customer Size: 50-350 employees

Vendor Snapshot: Namely was built with the employee experience in mind and designed their HRIS from the ground up to be mobile-first, employee-centric and on-par with other consumer apps that younger workforces use outside of work. Their solution covers a large portion of Core HR functionality and, where they can't offer certain functionality, they have integrations with leading 3rd parties.

  • Modules offered: HRIS, Ben Admin, Payroll, Onboarding, Performance, Time & Attendance, Learning, ATS
  • Price range: $19-28 PEPM

Workday

Average Customer Size: 1,000+ employees

Vendor Snapshot: Workday is a full suite HRIS system that can serve as a one-stop-shop for companies, covering everything from payroll, benefits and HR to recruiting, onboarding, performance and learning. Workday is primarily an enterprise solution and they have become the vendor-of-choice for a large portion of the Fortune 500. The primary strength for Workday is their strong enterprise architecture which allows the system to be configured to meet any client's requirements, without sacrificing the continuity of the entire system. In addition to being a highly configurable tool, Workday also has a very approachable user interface and a number of advanced capabilities on the HR / Talent Management side.

  • Modules offered: HRIS, Ben Admin, Payroll, Onboarding, Performance, Time & Attendance, Learning, ATS
  • Price range: $55-70 PEPM
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Brett Ungashick
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Brett Ungashick, the friendly face behind OutSail, started his career at LinkedIn, selling HR software. This experience sparked an idea, leading him to create OutSail in 2018. Based in Denver, OutSail simplifies the HR software selection process, and Brett's hands-on approach has already helped over 1,000 companies, including SalesLoft, Hudl and DoorDash. He's a go-to guy for all things HR Tech, supporting companies in every industry and across 20+ countries. When he's not demystifying HR tech, you'll find Brett enjoying a round of golf or skiing down Colorado's slopes, always happy to chat about work or play.

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