HR Management

HR is the part of a company where the most paper, spreadsheets and gut feeling come together - and at the same time where German labour law has the most merciless say. Leave entitlements under the Federal Leave Act, maximum working hours and rest periods under the Working Hours Act, maternity protection, public holidays that differ from state to state: all of it has to be right, and all of it costs nerves when you tackle it with tables. HR Management brings it into one coherent suite.

The heart of it is the digital personnel file. Particularly sensitive fields such as IBAN, tax ID and social-security number are encrypted field by field. Instead of binders and scattered files, every person has one structured record that the other areas use as their shared basis.

The leave planner calculates under the Federal Leave Act: entitlement, pro-rata claims for mid-year joiners and leavers, remaining leave and its expiry. Time tracking follows the Working Hours Act and checks break and rest periods too, so statutory limits do not slip past you. Shift planning helps with staffing, and the built-in public holidays per state plus school holidays keep planning and reality aligned.

Legal entities, locations, departments, positions, work schedules and assigned supervisors map the organization. Employees enter through personarium.de with their linked Werkzeu.ge account. They can see their leave balance and payslips, request leave, record time and submit expenses with receipts from the file cabinet. Total and remaining leave entered during employee creation stays transparent as an adjustment to the calculated balance.

Recruiting, development goals, review cycles, learning assignments, compensation planning, employee surveys, workforce planning and reusable workflows extend the operational HR core. Onboarding checklists guide new hires, while payroll preparation prepares hours, surcharges and one-off payments for the payroll bureau or tax advisor.

An important point on scope: HR Management is a tool for HR work, not legal or tax advice. It calculates statutory claims according to the relevant rules, but in a dispute it does not replace a legal review, and the actual payroll with social-security filings stays with the tax adviser. It takes the grind off your hands and keeps the rules, while responsibility for the individual case stays with you.

The suite is team- and server-based, opens from the Plus tier for smaller teams and adds employee logins and the complete process modules on Pro. It is intended for German small and medium businesses that want software shaped around German HR workflows without adopting a heavyweight international system.