NewNow Live

The HR module your team will actually use.

Employee records, time off, onboarding, org chart, performance, payroll exports — included with your Workestra workspace. Built for European SMBs who outgrew the spreadsheet but don't want a BambooHR bill.

Everything HR

The full employee lifecycle, in one place.

Hire, onboard, develop, retain, offboard. Workestra People covers every milestone with the depth a Belgian SMB needs and the polish a Stripe team would expect.

Employee directory

One source of truth per person — contact details, contract, role, department, manager, start date, employment type. Searchable, filterable, exportable.

Org chart

Auto-generated from reporting lines. Drag to reorganize, snapshot before reorgs, share branded read-only links with the whole company.

Time off requests & balances

Vacation, sick, parental, custom policies. Per-country accrual rules, carryover, multi-level approval, calendar integration. Balances shown live.

Onboarding workflows

Day-1, week-1, month-1 checklists. Auto-assign onboarding tasks across IT, manager, and the new hire. Templates by role and department.

Documents & e-signature

Contracts, NDAs, policy acknowledgments. E-sign with audit trail. Per-employee folder with retention policies and access control.

Performance reviews

360 reviews, self-assessments, manager check-ins. Cycle templates, goal-setting (OKRs), competency frameworks, review sign-off.

Training & certifications

Track completed courses, mandatory compliance training, expiring certifications. Auto-remind employees and managers before expiry.

Compensation history

Salary, bonus, equity by employee with effective dates. Promotion log, raise approvals, blind compa-ratio benchmarks.

Payroll exports

Generate per-period payroll files for SD Worx, Acerta, Securex, Partena (Belgium) plus generic CSV for any provider. Time-off and overtime included.

Engagement pulse

Lightweight pulse surveys, anonymous feedback, eNPS. Roll up by team or department. Trend over quarters, alert on dips.

Birthdays, anniversaries, milestones

Surface upcoming birthdays and work anniversaries on the home dashboard. Automate the message — or post to a Slack channel.

GDPR-compliant employee data

Granular access control per field. Right-to-erasure on offboard, audit log on every PII access. EU data residency by default.

Built into the suite

People doesn't live in HR's silo.

HR tools fail because the rest of the company never opens them. Workestra People is wired into the modules every team is already using.

Time off rolls into capacity planning

Approved vacation reduces a person's available capacity in Projects. Sprint plans see who's actually around. No double-booking the planning poker.

Employee changes flow into payroll exports

Salary updates, role changes, terminations — every change is captured with effective dates and lands in the next payroll export automatically.

Onboarding tasks auto-assigned

New hire created in People triggers task templates across IT (account provisioning), manager (1:1 setup), and HR (paperwork) — all in Projects.

Time tracking, approvals, overtime

Hours captured in Time module roll into employee timesheets. Manager approvals, overtime calculation, and feed into payroll exports.

Built for European HR

GDPR by default. Belgian payroll natively.

Most HR SaaS treats Europe as a localization tier. Workestra was built where the regulation was written.

Belgian payroll providers native

Direct exports for SD Worx, Acerta, Securex, and Partena. Plus generic CSV for any provider in the EU.

Field-level access control

Salary visible to HR + manager only. Personal info gated by role. Audit log on every PII access — EU DPO-ready.

Document retention

Per-document-type retention policies. Auto-archive on offboard. Right-to-erasure flows respect statutory minimums.

Multi-entity support

Run BV and SAS and GmbH in one workspace. Per-entity policies, holidays, leave types, payroll providers.

vs BambooHR, Personio

A modern HR tool without the modern HR bill.

BambooHR and Personio are excellent — and priced like a finished category. Workestra People is the alternative for SMBs who want depth and integration, not a third subscription.

Standalone HR tools

  • EU coverageBambooHR is US-first. Personio covers DACH. Belgium and Benelux fall through.
  • Cross-module integrationStandalone HR. Projects, Finance, and Time live elsewhere.
  • Pricing modelPer-employee SaaS pricing on top of your existing toolchain.
  • Onboarding automationChecklists in HR. IT and manager tasks live in another tool.
  • Performance + payroll loopReview in HR tool. Compensation change in spreadsheet. Payroll re-keys it.

People in Workestra

  • EU coverageBelgian payroll providers native (SD Worx, Acerta, Securex, Partena) + EU-wide.
  • Cross-module integrationTime off → capacity. Compensation → payroll. Onboarding → tasks. One graph.
  • Pricing modelIncluded in Workestra. Adding HR doesn't add a vendor.
  • Onboarding automationTemplates fan out across IT, HR, and the manager — one click on hire.
  • Performance + payroll loopReview → comp change → effective date → payroll export. No re-keying.
Replace your HRIS without replacing your stack.

People is here. Free up to 5 seats.

Migrate from BambooHR, Personio, or your spreadsheet in minutes. Belgian payroll exports included. GDPR-aligned by default.

Free forever for teams up to 5. No credit card required.