Symbiosis HR covers core employee records, a governed onboarding agent for accounts, equipment, forms, and week-one schedule, leave and attendance with regional policies, and payroll-input pipelines while execution stays with your provider. Performance cycles, letters and e-sign, benefits and document vaults, offboarding with access revoke, plus bridges to Recruit, Learn, Flow, and Agent Cloud. HR earns trust when balances are right, letters generate, and access is gone on exit day.
HR systems earn trust through correctness on boring days: leave balance right, letter generated, access revoked on exit. We optimize for that reliability first.
The wedge is the onboarding agent. Day one actually works: accounts, equipment, forms, and first-week schedule under Agent Cloud policy, not a ticket pile and a Slack scavenger hunt. Recruit closes into employment; HR opens into belonging.
Payroll execution stays with your provider or accountant by design. Regional complexity is real. Symbiosis HR prepares clean, reconciled inputs and evidence. Compliance trails survive inspection because they were built as architecture, not audit-week panic.
Core people records
Single employee record with org chart, roles, locations, contracts, and field-level visibility - one truth, not five spreadsheets.
Onboarding agent (wedge)
Governed orchestration of IdP accounts, tools, equipment, forms, and week-one schedule - day one works; audit every step.
Offer → employee handoff
Accept from Symbiosis Recruit (or ATS) creates the employee, triggers onboarding, and preserves the hiring evidence trail.
Leave & time-off policies
Policy-rule engines with regional variants, accruals, carry-forward, approvals, and balance correctness you can defend.
Attendance & shifts
Clock/roster, shift swaps, overtime rules, exceptions queues - mobile-friendly for floor and field.
Payroll input pipelines
Clean inputs and reconciliations to your payroll provider/accountant - we don't pretend one global payroll engine fits all regions.
Compensation & banding
Bands, increments, letters, approval matrices - history that finance and HR can both read.
Performance & calibration
Cycles, templates, goals, calibration workflows, and history - dissent capture, not hallway consensus only.
Letters, docs & e-sign
Offer/confirm/experience letters, policies, acknowledgements - generated, signed, vaulted with retention.
Benefits & deductions admin
Enrollments, life events, deduction flags for payroll inputs - not a full insurance marketplace.
Offboarding & access revoke
Checklists, asset return, IdP/tool revoke via governed agent, final settlements inputs, alumni knowledge capture hooks.
Org design & positions
Positions, headcount plans, vacancy flags linked to Recruit reqs - planning meets hiring.
Employee self-service & manager OS
ESS/MSS for leave, letters, team attendance, approvals - Slack/Teams nudges optional.
HR case / Flow bridge
ER cases, policy exceptions, and investigations on Symbiosis Flow with privacy controls.
Learn & skills bridge
Mandatory training assignment, skill gaps from reviews → Symbiosis Learn paths.
Knowledge for people ops
Cited policy answers for employees/managers - no invented leave rules.
Compliance & audit packs
Access logs, change trails, retention, regional labor evidence exports for inspections.
Multi-entity / multi-country
Entity-scoped policies and calendars; shared services with local overrides.
Integrations fabric
IdP/SSO, email, ERP cost centers, Recruit/ATS, payroll providers, badge/time clocks.
People analytics
Headcount, attrition, leave liability, onboarding SLA, time-to-productivity - Analytics handoff.
PEOPLE CORE
Employee records, org chart, positions, contracts, permissions.
ONBOARD & OFFBOARD
Governed day-one agent, checklists, access provision/revoke, asset trails.
TIME OS
Leave policies, attendance, shifts/rosters, overtime, exceptions.
PAY PREP
Payroll inputs, reconciliations, comp letters, banding approvals.
PERFORM & GROW
Reviews, calibration, goals, Learn skill bridges.
DOCS & COMPLIANCE
Letters, e-sign, vault, retention, inspection evidence packs.
EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE
ESS/MSS, Knowledge policy answers, HR cases via Flow.
ECOSYSTEM BRIDGE
Recruit handoff, IdP/ERP/payroll connectors, Agent Cloud automations.
Investment is bespoke to estate size, compliance needs, and deployment shape - book a demo and we'll map the right fit.
STARTER
- → Core employee records
- → Leave + basic approvals
- → Letter templates
- → ESS for leave
- → CSV payroll-input export
BUSINESS
- → Everything in Starter
- → Onboarding agent (Agent Cloud)
- → Attendance & shifts
- → Performance cycles
- → Recruit offer handoff
- → Payroll provider connectors
- → Manager OS + e-sign
ENTERPRISE
- → Everything in Business
- → Multi-country policy packs
- → Offboarding revoke automation
- → Flow HR cases / ER
- → Learn mandatory-training bridge
- → Compliance evidence exports
- → Private deployment options
HR, answered
Does it run payroll?
It prepares and reconciles payroll inputs; payroll execution stays with your provider or accountant - by design, given regional complexity.
What is the onboarding agent?
A governed Agent Cloud workflow that provisions accounts, requests equipment, collects forms, and schedules week one - so day one isn't a scavenger hunt. Every step is policy-checked and audited.
How does it work with Recruit?
Offer accept creates the employee record and starts onboarding, preserving hiring evidence. Recruit ranks humans; HR employs them.
Is this a full benefits marketplace?
No - enrollments and deduction flags for payroll inputs are in scope; carrier marketplaces stay adjacent with connectors as needed.
Can employees get policy answers from AI?
Yes - via Symbiosis Knowledge grounding: cited policy passages, or honest 'not found' / escalate to HR - never invented leave rules.
Multi-country?
Entity-scoped policies, calendars, and pay-input formats; shared-services models with local overrides are first-class on Enterprise.
See it against your reality.
A 30-minute walkthrough with an engineer who builds it - your use case, not a script.