Your HR spreadsheet had a good run.
It was the right tool when there were five of you. It is still holding everything together, which is the problem.
- 5 employees The spreadsheet works.
- 15 employees The spreadsheet starts getting weird.
- 30 employees Everyone has their own version.
- 50 employees “Who changed this cell?”
- 100 employees You need an HR system.
Hexense HR starts where spreadsheets stop working.
Everything the spreadsheet was quietly doing, done properly, with the things that need your attention in one queue instead of in your head.
Five things the spreadsheet was doing badly.
Leave is a tab, balances are a formula, and someone asks in chat whether they can take Friday.
People request leave in the app or in Slack, the balance is calculated for them, and their manager approves from one queue. Per-country entitlements and public holidays are built in.
The start-date column is the only record that someone joined, and onboarding is a checklist you copy from the last hire.
An onboarding template runs for every new hire, with tasks for them and for you, starting before day one. Offboarding runs the same way, backwards from the last day.
Contracts are in a shared drive, and nobody is sure which version is signed.
Documents are sent, signed and stored against the person, and the signed copy is the one everyone sees.
Salary is in a locked sheet that three people have the password to, and one of them left.
Compensation lives on the profile with a history, readable by admins and the person, and never by a manager who shouldn't see it. The database enforces that, not a password.
Someone asks who changed a cell, and nobody knows.
Every admin action is in an append-only audit log: who did what, when, to whom.
The spreadsheet is the import.
One row per person, saved as CSV, is what the people import reads. Up to 500 rows per file, previewed before anything is written, with reporting lines linked from a manager email column. If it is messier than that, we'll load it with you.
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