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People and workPeople (HR and payroll)

HR with security built in: core HR, time, leave, payroll and talent, with every account opened, changed and closed as people join, move and leave.

People covers the employee lifecycle from hiring to exit: core HR, attendance, leave, payroll, compensation, benefits, performance, learning, expenses and employee services. Payroll runs move through pre-checks, approval, lock and payslips, and post to Books. Employees and managers use the same app on the web and on mobile, and HR partners see only the locations or legal entities they look after.

People home for an HR administrator: headcount, joiners and exits, attendance check-in, leave balances and the latest payslip.People home for an HR administrator: headcount, joiners and exits, attendance check-in, leave balances and the latest payslip.

Key capabilities

  • IGA Essentials: SSO, MFA and automatic account lifecycle for every employee
  • Payroll with statutory returns and bank files
  • Attendance with geo-fencing, shifts and swaps
  • Recruiting, onboarding, journeys and exits
  • Goals, reviews, calibration and succession
  • Compensation cycles, benefits and expenses
  • Self-service and approvals on web and mobile

IGA Essentials: HR with security built in

Included in every plan. The HR record drives access, so accounts follow people from their first day to their last.

  • Single sign-on and MFA for all staff
  • Accounts created automatically on hire in Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, GitHub and Zoom
  • Access changed when someone moves role, and removed on exit
  • Access requests with manager approval
  • Quarterly access reviews for managers and app owners
  • An access audit log of every grant, change and removal
  • Advanced identity governance and privileged access are available in Ciyora Fortress

Core HR and organisation

One effective-dated employee record with job history, positions and an org chart. HR partners can be limited to the locations or legal entities they look after.

  • Employee directory, profiles, dependants, documents and assets
  • Legal entities, locations, departments, job families, grades and job profiles
  • Hire, transfer, promotion, secondment, reorganisation, termination and rehire
  • Position management with vacancy ageing, freezes and headcount plans
  • What-if org design scenarios with spans, layers and annual cost
  • Contingent workers with staffing vendors, contracts, budgets and end-date alerts
  • Interactive org chart and an audit trail of every change

Time and attendance

Attendance from web, mobile and biometric devices, rostered against shifts and shown on each location’s own clock.

  • Web, mobile and biometric clock-in, with CSV import
  • Geo-fenced mobile attendance that flags or rejects punches outside a site
  • Selfie and face-match attendance, and live GPS tracking for field staff
  • Shifts, rotations, weekly-off patterns and rosters
  • Shift swaps and covers, accepted by a colleague and approved by the manager
  • Overtime, regularisation requests and monthly muster
  • Project timesheets with approval, feeding Projects

Leave and holidays

Leave policies accrue, carry forward and lapse on their own, with a team calendar for managers.

  • Leave types with accrual, proration, carry-forward and lapse
  • Half-day and short leave, sandwich rules and comp-off
  • Holiday calendars by location, with optional holidays
  • Statutory leaves from the country pack
  • Leave encashment, annual and at full and final
  • Team calendar and approvals in the inbox and on mobile

Payroll

A payroll run moves from draft and calculation to approval, lock, payment and published payslips. Effective-dated changes flow back as arrears, and every run posts to Books.

  • Pay groups, pay calendars and formula-based pay components
  • Pre-checks, variance against last month and statutory gap warnings
  • Off-cycle, bonus and arrears runs; loans and salary advances with EMI recovery
  • Password-protected payslips for employees on web and mobile
  • Bank transfer files and full and final settlement
  • Journal posting to Books by cost centre
  • Payroll country packs for India and the United States, on the same payroll engine

Compensation

Salary structures and review cycles that work from the same employee and job data.

  • Salary structures, grade ranges and compa-ratio
  • Merit and bonus cycles with budgets and manager worksheets
  • Promotion workflow and salary change letters
  • Equity grants, vesting and exercises
  • Pay equity analysis and total rewards statements

Benefits

Benefit plans with enrolment windows, life events and claims, visible to employees in self-service.

  • Health, life, accident and wellness plan setup
  • Enrolment windows, dependants and life events
  • Flexible benefit plans with claims and approvals
  • Insurance claims, e-cards and an insurer census
  • My coverage view for every employee

Recruiting

Requisitions to offers on one pipeline, with a public career site and referrals.

  • Requisitions with approvals, tied to positions and the headcount plan
  • Jobs, candidate pipeline, résumé keyword parsing and screening
  • Interview scheduling with scorecards and feedback
  • Offers with approvals and e-signature through Documents
  • Career site, internal job board, referrals and agencies
  • Background check tracking and a candidate portal before an account exists

Onboarding, journeys and offboarding

Structured tasks for joining, life and career moments, and leaving.

  • Onboarding checklists with tasks for HR, IT, finance and the manager
  • Document collection and policy acknowledgements
  • Journeys for promotion, relocation, new manager, new parent and return from leave
  • Resignation workflow with notice period and exit interviews
  • Clearance checklist, relieving and experience letters
  • Full and final settlement and alumni records

Performance and talent

Goals, reviews and talent decisions in one place for employees, managers and HR.

  • Goals and OKRs with weights, milestones and cascading
  • 1:1s with agendas and action items, and continuous feedback
  • Review cycles, 360 feedback and calibration on a 9-box grid
  • Performance improvement plans
  • Skills library, talent profiles, career paths and succession plans
  • Internal gigs and mentoring programmes

Learning

Courses, learning paths and sessions, with mandatory training tracked to completion.

  • Course catalogue with self-enrolment
  • Learning paths and scheduled sessions
  • Assigned and mandatory training with due dates
  • Certifications with expiry tracking
  • SCORM and xAPI course player
  • Compliance and overdue reports for L&D admins

Expenses and travel

Claims with policy limits that move through approval to payment and a journal in Books.

  • Expense claims with receipts, mileage and per diem
  • Grade-based policy limits
  • Travel requests and advances
  • Expense lines charged to projects in Projects
  • Manager and finance approvals, then payment and posting to Books

Employee services and engagement

The helpdesk, letters and listening tools HR uses to look after employees.

  • HR helpdesk with SLAs, escalation and a knowledge base
  • HR letters from templates with merge fields, self-service or HR-issued
  • Announcements, pulse and eNPS surveys
  • Manager survey results with an anonymity threshold
  • Peer recognition

Analytics and workforce planning

Standard dashboards and a report builder, scoped to what each person may see.

  • Headcount, attrition, diversity, organisation and cost dashboards
  • Approval SLA reporting and a custom report builder
  • Scheduled reports and exports
  • Rules-based attrition risk with reasons per person and hot spots
  • Headcount planning against budget

Self-service and administration

Employees and managers act in one inbox, and admins shape the processes behind it.

  • My work, inbox and my requests across every app
  • Profile, payslips, tax declarations, leave and attendance in self-service
  • Configurable approval chains with delegation and escalation
  • Custom fields, role scopes and field masking for salary and bank details
  • Single sign-on, data migration and integrations
Screens

People in the product

India

Indian rules, built in

Statutory payroll for India is built in through the India country pack, for FY 2026-27. Rates live in versioned tables, so a payroll admin can add a new rate from a date without changing earlier payslips.

How Thoshika handles Indian compliance

  • CTC-based salary structures with FBP and reimbursements
  • PF (EPF, EPS, EDLI, VPF) with the ECR file for the EPFO portal
  • ESI with contribution periods, the monthly file and the half-yearly return
  • Professional tax and LWF by state, with state return forms and due days
  • TDS under the old and new regimes, Form 12BB declarations, proofs and Form 12BA
  • Form 16 Part A and Part B, TDS challans with interest and a Form 24Q return pack
  • Gratuity, statutory bonus register, NPS file, minimum wage and Labour Codes checks
  • POSH, contract labour, apprentices, statutory registers and DPDP consent
Mobile

People on Android and iOS

Employees and managers use the Thoshika app on Android and iPhone, with the same approvals and data as the web.

About the mobile apps

On the phone

  • Clock in and out with geo-fencing, request regularisation and swap shifts
  • Apply for leave, see balances and the team calendar
  • Payslips, salary view and tax declarations with Form 12BB
  • Expense claims with receipts and a project picker
  • Goals, 1:1s, learning, benefits, recognition and announcements
  • Directory, org chart, onboarding and journey tasks
  • Approvals inbox, helpdesk cases and notifications
Who uses it

Roles in People

Every person signs in once. Roles decide what they see, and can be limited to a location, branch or other scope where the app supports it.

HR admin

Sets up the organisation, policies and workflows, and manages employee records.

HR partner

Handles employees for the locations or legal entities in their scope.

Payroll admin

Runs payroll, verifies declarations and prepares statutory files and returns.

Manager

Approves leave, attendance, expenses and timesheets, and runs goals, 1:1s and reviews.

Employee

Marks attendance, applies for leave, submits claims and declarations, and downloads payslips.

See People with your own processes

People is available on its own or as part of Thoshika One, with every app for every employee.