Personio Reviews: 4.3/5 — Solid Choice

From all the tools that I have used and implemented in the past, with Personio I had by far the most support throughout the implementation. I love that you can assign different work schedules to different employees, which makes it so much easier to calculate vacation days correctly for everyone. I also love that all general settings are best practice settings which was perfect to get started right away.

Personio does require a time investment. It's a tool covering many different aspects and you need to invest time to learn to how to properly adjust those. It took us about 6 weeks to migrate from sage.hr BUT, once you get it, it's easy. One thing that I dislike the calendar integration doesn't show the event type but just says "busy". It would also immensely benefit us if we could have all employee vacations synced to one calendar.

We are solving a bunch of problems like vacation day calculation for employees switching their hours or automatic on- and offboarding. We have yet to look into things like performance management but this is something of great benefit.

Currently finalised implementation stage and the transition from our old HRIS went smoothly thanks to our implementation specialist. We choose Personio for it's automation, data tracking and their customer scentric mindset.

Personio just entered the Dutch market so there is no integration with our payroll provider.

One source of truth for all our employee data, faster and smoother onbaording.

For me personio is entirely helpful but especially onboarding, recruitment and document templates. It will help my company to gain time.

360° evaluation is missing and it's a key in HR nowadays.

Our work is more organized, we gain time and productivity. We have a proper process to follow follwoing the employee life cycle.

the list of employees and the organization chart

the registration of the day and the visualization of the schedule

the employee documentation signature

I think having recruitment, staff details, onboarding, holidays all in one place and easy to navigate is the best thing about Personio.

there are some features that we can't amend, so a few times we've had to 'work around'

unbias and equal assessment of canididates during the interview process. We realised this after the very first interview through Personio! It made a difference immediately. We're also solving our onboarding process - hiring managers are involved at the right stages and we're already saving time and providing a better experience.

The Absence inquiry and confirmation flow.

Some small bugs here and there, for example, when revising/re-requesting a day off: - if you wanna push it in time, you have to first change the 'to' date, and then adjust the 'from' date: at least for me is intuitive to change the 'from' date first and then the 'to' date.

Absence overview, Key HR Related Task Managment(reminders, checklists)

The information is clearly presented. The document folders are very helpful. Its easy to allocate the correct access permissions.

The bulk upload of documents is a little difficult. This could be improved and a setting which allows you to upload multiple files at once to a single employees file. It would be good if we could customise how the dashboard looks too.

The only issue we have ran into is the bulk upload of documents and that all of the documents we need to upload (roughly 16,000) have to be renamed which is a mammoth task. However, the support we have received from personio for this problem has been great and they are helping us to process these documents.

The design plus the recruiting overview.

The little pop-ups that show you've changed something. Useless.

Demonstrate our candidate pipeline to the management board plus valuable HR insight into numbers and figures of our workforce.

Very complete tool, responsive team, intuitive user experience

Setting up the tool could also be done quickly if there were more guidance via the tool itself (via popups for example)

Disorganized and unefficient HR spreadsheets, easier overview with accounting and payroll

It is very user friendly and easy to implement

The fact you can't have two career pages links. If this was possible, you could use the iframe option twice.

1. clear overview and history of all applicants 2. automation of replies and mailing

I like that the experience has been so familiar for me, just because I also work in a Tech company so we have the same cycle of the customer. The attention of the onboarding team especially the onboarding and training with Paloma Sánchez Lucas, but also the first contacts and the hole negotiation with Manuel López (from the Business Development Team). I also like the product itself, mainly the parsing of resumees, I think that is the most helpful about Personio and the Use Experience in general.

Some requirements we have needed are not possible to develop from Personio (for example to have notifications in the webpage, not only by email, just to ensure you do not have messages without an answer), and I would like to have more training calls between the onboarding team and all the hiring managers of my company just to ensure a good comprehension of the product.

At this moment we are not solving anything, but all the problems I had they've tried to solve in a fastly way. Also, the recommendations I have made (for example the change from "Send" to "Save" in Spanish) have been taken into account even if I have not use the form to add them. I have realized the benefits of the parsing, the digital signing, and all the connections with different job portals such as Infojobs, Linkedin, Infoempleo, etc

We like the holistic approach from recruiting to managed onboarding and finally to clean offboarding

The loading speeds are sometimes a bit slow

Automatic Recruiting processes to a lot of external recruiting channels

Recruiment Section, best services, always available if help needed, able to adjust for several countries

Missing mails, need to adjust manually upfront

HRM System, saving so much time compared to excel

I like most the reporting tools, the Onboarding and Offboarding framework that is comletely adaptable and the Payroll function

Thats its pretty difficult to make changes in batch. That the multi upload function still needs manual steps

We are automating the onboarding and offboarding processes We have a better payroll

Especially these features are fantastic: the ATS, the administration of each employee (e.g. personal data overview, digital file), absence calendar and the new e-signatures.

the org-chart could (should;) be better and a salary planning tool is still missing

We save a lot of time due to the fact that we harmonized our data landscape (we used many different tools for our hr data administration)

Easy to use, straightforward system, nice designs.

Personalization of exports are sometimes limited.

Personnel cost tracking. Good overview, all details can be added to the system.

That all employees easily can request absence and the process is automatically followed up by the tool. The absence will then show in the calendar without showing delicate information, which we really like. The app makes it so easy and everything is very user-friendly.

Parts of the implementation was very tedious and manual. The tool itself is lacking some features that I understood will be launched in the close future (Like approval from the app). We also would like to see some more options for reporting in the future.

We had some issues with who to ask and communicate the absence to. With Personio this problem is gone. The settings in the tool make it possible for the employees to only request absence without thinking about who is on the other side. The right people will get the request and approve/deny it, and that is a relief for the company to know that the requests are processed at the right place at all times. After the absence is approved, all employees can easily see who is not in the office, and who is working from home from the Calendar. It will also show in the app, so it is easy to check in the morning who is gone.

- UX - Simplicity - Cloud - Good API, which we use a lot to link with other products

A downside is also the simplicity, which hinders you sometimes to set up more complex workflows

Almost everything, it allows us to fully digitalize our the daily work in our HR department

smart, easy HR software for daily HR processes and administration

missing work on behalf rights - some processes could be improved

HR Administration, more efficient, easy work flows, high data quality

Personalisation of tailored overview of staff - being able to change columns and filters for easy scanning.

Be great if it could integrate with our Google Directory and also have more UK based recruitment channels configured

Creating specific reports is wonderfully refreshing and simple. Managers now have a clear overview of their team's leave. We can also track WFH.

The simplicity of the design, I think it's going to be very easy for our employees to use.

There is no start/stop function for attenance

Holiday balance transparency (we did not have this before), one place for all HR related topics.

The easy and guided installation and handover with all the important knowledge. The program is really easy to understand and can theoretically be "installed" and run by anyone with a little understanding of programs.

Sometimes many settings can only be made individually. Here a multiple selection would be great. This would make the installation even easier and sometimes this problem is already solved by uploading Excel lists and thus being able to make several settings at once.

Most important to us is the vacation overview and the collection of documents and thus the personnel overview. So we have a nice, simple and secure overview of all important information and can easily adjust vacations etc., confirm etc.

Personio has a great user interface for the administrators and for all our employees - it is fun to log in and work with personio. Furthermore we were able to digitize all the documents of our employees, make them transparent (on the right place) and accessible for our employees and the management and have all documents in one place instead of different locations. The option of E-signatures is a really good extension and speeds up the signing process immensely. Addionally employee information can be customized what makes the HR work much easier. The reports you are able to download with Personio are very good (even the standard and not individual reports). Furthermore the approval processes are easy to implement and our on- and off-boarding processes can be easily mapped.

A few things can still be changed even if Personio is already great: Sections and attributes that are not filled for one employee should not be shown (causes confusion and looks incomplete). Furthermore it is not possible to adjust the column width in the employee view. It is not possible to share customized reports with employees who don't have access to everything (e.g. salaries). The fields that are displayed in the search bar for the employees should be individually adaptable (it is always position and department).

We have now faster, better and more transparent HR processes due to digital signatures, digital employee documents and much more...

It's very timesaving, a lot of manual HR tasks can be done by Personio like contracts, e-signatures, reminders for managers during onboarding, about contracts, and way way more. I like that you can adjust everything yourself, you are not dependent on Personio to change your setup.

Some options are not there yet, but you see they are developing very quickly. We really need bi-weekly schedules, and they update us frequently about the feature (that will be implemented soon).

- Saves a lot of manual administrative tasks (contracts, reminders about birthday + contracts + onboarding and offboarding tasks). - Managers can do and view a lot of information themselves - Saves a lot of time in payrolling, because you can already schedule changes - Saves times during onboarding and offboarding - We are ready for growth, without spending more and more time on HR administration

It is a scalable tool and it makes HR department to work better

Some items are still missing: surveys to the employees for labour climate.

All the HR info is at the same tool. All employees can have access to their documentation.

I really like the easy interface yor the employees. It is not overloaded with things you can do and it concentrates on the most relevant things you need. I also really appreciate the great customer support

Sometimes buggy when new features are updating. As an admin it needs to have a training on all the settings you can have

Its an easy plattform to collect all relevant information for all hr admin tasks and the payroll. It also helps us to get rid of a physical personal file. It saves a lot of time and information are not getting lost

Personio helps us to map our HR requirements and workflows in a very smart way and to adapt them ourselves even in an agile environment. In other words, there are well-thought-out technical guidelines, where I still have the chance to design my processes within a defined framework. Agile setup, fast implementation, regular exchange, understanding HR in a modern approach, constant drive for innovation/ new features

Performance review / personnel development area still needs fine-tuning Reporting - several visual evaluations (Manager View) / team comparison Recruiting module (recruitment) should be even better linked to the onboarding process Agile workflow setup - outside the on- & off-boarding process

monthly payroll Self-service function (manager/employee) administrative activities (absence management, time tracking, etc.) Reporting - adhoc Reporting Recruiting module rolled out and made from 2 HR tools - one solution digital personnel file introduced Template Management All the points mentioned strengthen the HR team in its daily work and enable us to focus on the actual HR topics (business partnering, training, development). Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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Personio allowed us to centralize all HR related processes at our company. It made on-boarding, payroll, contracts and absences really easy for us. We are saving a lot of time and energy with all processes, helping us to keep track of everything and not loose any relevant information.

We were not huge fans of Personio's recruiting options, as we already had better CRM's for that. Also, the distributions of "add ons" and "pluses" is not the most effective for us, as we don't use recruiting but still have to pay for most of its features.

- Onboardings are smooth and easy-going, making sure that we don't miss any important step on the process. - Filling in and signing contracts electronically is a huge plus or us! - The calendar is also really beneficial, as we cans till keep track of everything and integrate it into our Google calendar

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