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Our online self-service HR software is designed to reduce admin, increase efficiency and give you all the tools you need to drive HR strategy. The Octopus HR system is simple and easy to use anytime, anywhere, empowering employees to manage the tasks that soak up so much of HR's time, removing duplication of work and increasing efficiency.
Fully integrated into Octopus HR, you can record payments and deductions, loans, attachment of earnings, pensions, childcare vouchers - all can be effortlessly communicated to your payroll system.
Octopus Recruit makes promoting and filling vacancies simple and cost effective while powerful reporting tools enable HR to continually optimise your organisation’s recruitment strategy.
Empower your employees and their line managers to easily submit, accept, decline and track holidays and other absence requests. HR can quickly run customisable absence reports to identify trends and highlight potential issues before they occur.
With configurable expense codes and automatic exchange rate conversions, employees can quickly record expenses and submit them to the appropriate person for approval before being passed to payroll for reimbursement.
The perfect solution for managers and employees to identify skills gaps and create actionable PDPs that incorporate follow-up alerts for actions, reviews and progress updates.
Our Timesheet module makes it simple for employees to record hours worked and any overtime, submit them to the appropriate manager for authorisation and deliver them to payroll quickly and easily.
With customisable levels of access Octopus HR empowers your employees and their line managers to deal with routine admin while ensuring HR retains control of sensitive information and important processes.
Our blog showcases some of the amazing things that are going on in the HR world and is full of innovative ideas and practical advice. Our aim for HRmoz is to inspire thousands of incremental improvements across HR that, when taken together amount to huge advances in how organisations recruit, retain, motivate and manage their greatest asset.
"Octopus is one of the most user-friendly and intuitive systems I have ever used. The support provided is also first class.
Jenny Bennett
Head of HR
Acal
"Congratulations! You make my life so much easier"
Caroline Lewis
Office Manager
HPS Group
"Octopus has completely changed the way I work and saved me so much time"
Lucy Kay
Facilities and HR Manager
Rufus Leonard
"Makes monthly reporting very easy and takes half the time it used to"
Haygarth Group
"This is all so easy - it's wonderful"
Faber & Faber
Simple and easy to use
Secure hosting and data
protection compliant
Award winning self-service HR software
Access anywhere with an
internet connection
Future proof, the system can grow
with your organisation's needs
Detailed, customisable reports to aid HR
strategy development
Modular system, only pay for
what you need
No software to download and maintain
Industry leading customer service
Reporting
Run real-time reports, for example on workforce demographics, absence and turnover, from a company-wide perspective, down to more detailed levels. You get the information you need to make smart decisions and plan for the future.
Absence
Our absence management feature enables staff to easily submit, cancel and track holiday requests and other absences. Managers can quickly approve or decline absence requests, keep track of absence records and monitor trends.
Mobile Access
Employees can use our iPhone app or their smartphone browser to make managing absence quick, simple and easy, even when they’re away from a computer.
Company Handbook
Centralise your company documents and keep employees informed with an up-to-date electronic version of your company's policies and procedures.
Read and Accept
For critical documents you can record who has read, accepted or queried a communication. It’s easy to report on who has yet to accept a particular communication and send reminder messages through the HR system.
Total Reward Statement
Employees can clearly see the full value of their benefits package beyond just salary. This automatically updates when any changes to an employee’s benefits are made.
