Next-Gen HRIS vs Traditional HRIS: How to Tell Them Apart and When to Switch Next-Gen HRIS vs Traditional HRIS: How to Tell Them Apart and When to Switch
TL;DR: A next-gen HRIS is open by design. It runs core HR, then connects through two-way integrations to your payroll, recruitment, and rostering tools. A traditional HRIS is closed instead. It expects to own every job and integrates poorly with anything else. Switch when re-keying, parallel spreadsheets, and disconnected records cost more than the move. […]
7 mins read | HR Insights
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HR Insights
Managing HR Across Multiple Entities: How to Run One HR Function Across Several ABNs
TL;DR: Managing HR across multiple entities means keeping each entity’s people, payroll, and compliance records distinct while one HR team runs them all. One HR system can do this well. The test is whether it separates entities cleanly, scopes access by entity, shares templates, and still reports across the whole group. Last updated 9 October […]
9 mins read | 24/10/2025
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Stay on Top of Workforce Documents: Tracking Contracts, Licences and Certificates with the Worknice Paperwork Page
TL;DR: Tracking workforce documents means knowing, for every person, which contracts, licences, and certificates they need, which are missing, and which are about to expire. In Worknice that view is the Paperwork page, formerly the Paperwork Overview. It counts items by status, filters by compliance group, and lets you act on many items at once. […]
8 mins read | 17/07/2025
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WGEA Reporting Software App in Worknice: How It Prepares Your Workplace Profile (2026)
TL;DR: The Worknice WGEA Reporting App prepares the employee data for your Workplace Profile, the largest file in a WGEA report. It pulls records from Worknice, annualises base salary, and includes people who left during the period. You then review a CSV and copy it into WGEA’s template. You still lodge through the Employer Portal. […]
8 mins read | 09/06/2025
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Simplify MYOB Leave Requests with Worknice: Approvals and Balances for MYOB AccountRight
TL;DR: MYOB AccountRight tracks leave balances and pays leave, but it has no request and approval workflow of its own. Worknice adds one. Employees request leave against live MYOB balances, managers approve it, Worknice calculates the hours from each work pattern, and payroll sends approved leave into MYOB timesheets when it is ready. Last updated […]
9 mins read | 28/05/2025
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How Can Companies Improve Their Gender Pay Gap in 2026?
TL;DR: Companies improve their gender pay gap by finding what drives it, then acting on those drivers. Usually that means more women in senior, higher-paid roles, fairer bonuses and overtime, and flexible work at every level. Set measurable targets, track the gap through the year rather than once, and share progress with the managers who […]
9 mins read | 27/03/2025
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Worknice and MicrOpay HRIS Integration: How HR Connects to MicrOpay Payroll
TL;DR: Worknice connects to MicrOpay so HR and payroll stop keying the same people twice. New hires set up in Worknice land in MicrOpay’s New Employee wizard for payroll to check. Leave requests and balances move both ways, and connection control decides who syncs at all. MicrOpay stays the source of truth for pay, super, […]
9 mins read | 26/02/2025
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Employment Hero Payroll Integration: How the 2-Way Sync With Worknice HR Software Works
TL;DR: Worknice has a 2-way integration with Employment Hero Payroll, the payroll also sold as KeyPay and ELMO Payroll. Personal, bank, TFN, super, and leave data sync in both directions, so HR works in Worknice while payroll keeps working in Employment Hero. Employment Hero Payroll stays the source of truth for pay, awards, and leave […]
8 mins read | 11/12/2024
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MYOB HR Integration for AccountRight: Setup, Connection Control and What Syncs Each Way
TL;DR: Worknice connects to MYOB AccountRight from Apps, imports your employees, and links each person to their MYOB card. Personal details, bank accounts, and the employee ID then sync both ways. TFN and super details do not, so payroll keys them into MYOB. Connection control and multiple company files decide who syncs where. Last updated […]
9 mins read | 17/07/2024
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Track and Manage Expiration Dates on All HR Paperwork: Alerts, Renewals and Compliance
TL;DR: Tracking expiration dates on HR paperwork means recording when each contract, licence, check, and form stops being valid, then acting before it does. Good tracking needs a date on every item, an owner, and an easy renewal. In Worknice, expiry dates sit on the paperwork itself, the Paperwork page counts what is expiring, and […]
9 mins read | 01/07/2023
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Handy tools for organising and analysing your HR data in Worknice
TL;DR: Worknice gives HR teams four tools for organising and analysing people data: data tables under Tables, the Paperwork page, the paperwork audit trail, and Insights. Tables let you choose columns, filter, sort, save views, and download to CSV. Insights add ready-made dashboards for compliance, retention, diversity, compensation, the gender pay gap, and org structure. […]
9 mins read | 16/06/2023
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Multiple Choice Questions in Employee Surveys and Forms: How to Design Them, and How Worknice Handles Them
TL;DR: A multiple choice question asks people to pick from a fixed list of answers, which makes employee surveys and forms faster to complete and far easier to compare. It works best with complete, distinct options plus an “Other” choice. In Worknice, Multiple Choice is a saved question type with its own options and an […]
7 mins read | 20/04/2023
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Approvals, integrated leave management and 47 more updates
While you were working on the Christmas left overs, we working on creating an incredible HR platform for 2023 – and shipping a record amount of updates this month. Highlight 1 – The Papercut blitz January is known as a bit of a slow down period, from Christmas through to Australia day. Our development team […]
4 mins read | 30/01/2023
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