Key Features

• Mobile HR: Users can access full HR functions and communications securely on mobile devices. They can send alerts, receive information, book vacations, view payslips and connect with other workers on the go. The app supports individual configurations and localization for different languages. 
• Global Cloud Service: Sage People is built and hosted on the Salesforce cloud platform. It works without lengthy installations, manual updates or IT support. Users have access to admin screens through centralized or distributed administration. They can configure page layouts, sections and workflows by drag-and-drop functionality instead of coding.  
• Security and Privacy: Users can prevent data from being intercepted, with all connections protected with Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption (version 1.1 or higher). The system allows data replication in real time to a 100% full-scale replica disaster recovery data center. It also provides multi-factor authentication for identity verification to add another layer of protection. It complies with security standards like the GDPR, Privacy Shield and ISO 27001. 
• Talent Management: This feature helps to align individual objectives with organizational goals. It provides a channel for peer-to-peer recognition, team building and resource planning. It manages attrition by capturing potential, risk and impact of leaving. Tools like the 9 box grid and skills matrices make it easy to evaluate talent pools. Users can conduct comprehensive skill searches across the global workforce to match job roles and bridge skills gaps.  
• Succession Planning: The ability to view multiple successors and support development plans aids companies in preparing for the future. 
• Workforce Management: Users can eliminate repetitive, manual processes with workforce information consolidated in a single global instance.They can set up and manage groups of people that don’t usually work together, such as cross-functional or project teams, and manage virtual teams and contingent workers such as freelancers. 
• Performance Management: Managers can continuously communicate expectations, define duties and help employees accomplish strategic objectives.They can configure performance features to suit processes as well as define questions, participants and visibility based on business strategies. The system enables 360-degree feedback through internal team members as well as external assessors. Development plans and activities can be tied directly to competencies or set independently. 
• Payroll: Sage People Payflow enables users to easily pass salary and benefits data to one or more payroll systems. Its secure services integrate with finance and accounting systems to automatically pass workforce-related costs to accounts. On-demand reports, dashboards and analytics facilitate tracking payroll, compensation and benefits data. Multilingual and multi-currency capabilities provide an option to conduct transactions in the local language. 
• Compensation Management: This feature lets users design compensation processes that optimize budgets, improve compliance and reward high-performing employees. Performance metrics support planning and analyzing compensation packages. The system auto-generates compensation letters to local HR teams and managers for planning purposes. Managers can review, modify and approve their team’s compensation plans from one location. They can select from multiple formulas to determine salary rules, choose specific worksheet planners and have a clear view of worksheet progress.  
• Benefits Administration: Sage People supports multiple third-party benefit providers. Users can manage eligibility rules in open enrollment for benefits, enhance calculations and rate tables to make changes to benefits ahead of changes actually being implemented. Pay and benefits updates are automated via predefined workflows, with corresponding notifications sent to employees to keep them informed. 
• Attendance and Leave Management: Users can identify, manage and report on paid leave, absences and overtime for the entire global workforce. This feature monitors absence costs and critical trends such as working time lost by year or month, with drag-and-drop reporting functionality. Full visibility of all attendance and leave is available through integrated metrics, reporting and dashboards. 
• Time Tracking: Users can track time and manage policies from a single, automated system of record and be prepared for audits to meet compliance requirements. 
• Employee Portal:  This feature simplifies HR service by letting employees maintain personal data, schedule PTO and track absences. Automatic notifications let employees know when their requests are approved or not, and their remaining balances are updated in real-time. Documents such as sick certificates or medical assessments can be uploaded to team member records for auditing purposes.  

Limitations

•  Pricing is higher than similar solutions. 
•  Extensive configuration makes it challenging to utilize all the functionality. 
•  It requires extensive customization, especially for salary. 

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