Free Human Resources (HR) Software Download Facts

Why HR Software is NOT free?

Let me begin with why there canât be free software in HR Domain.

My first argument is that it takes lots of efforts to develop an HR Software, because an HR Software is not merely a plain database of employees information fields (like in an Excel Sheet or MS Access) but a large collection of various types of information which are linked to each other in a logical way so that an output can provide a Common Sense View about the employees.

If I need to define HR Software I will say âHR Software is a process for the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of employeeâs data. It can provide tools for prediction and forecasting based on data. Thus it can be used for a wide variety of management decisions, financial decisions about manpower, performance of people, succession planning and removal of non-performers.â Such an important software, which provides a total MIS on human resources has to be created with great care. How can you get it for Free.

My second argument is that there are huge number of HR Processes and policies. Almost every company has its own HR policies and practices. To develop a globally applicable HR software, the software vendor has to study hundreds of HR practices, analyse the data patterns, and then develop a good HR Software which can be customized to the specific practices/ processes followed by the user. Thus a good HR Software requires thousands of man hours of effort before it can add some value to HR. Anything which requires efforts at such a mass scale cannot be developed for free. Because there is no free lunch for the developers and no one else can do it!

But there are free softwares on Internet?

Yes, some of my friends will say there are free softwares available on Internet. To find the truth, I searched for âFree HR Softwareâ on Google. Look, what I got:

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Working as a Senior Business Analyst with EmpXtrack. In this profile I need to research on best HR practices, understand how technology can help organization to improve performance of its human resources, optimize search engine to rank better in Google Search Results, write for the corporate blog, network with other HR professionals through various channels and develop one of the best on demand talent and performance management system- EmpXtrack.