Youmanage, providers of an innovative online HR toolkit for small and medium-sized organisations, has announced an exciting partnership with Empire HR Ltd, a well-respected supplier of a full range of commercially focused Employment Law, Human Resources and Health & Safety solutions throughout the UK.

Scotland-based Empire HR, supports over 500 client organisations throughout the UK, and is the fastest growing, independent HR support business in Scotland. Their highly skilled team of experts offers guidance and advice to any business, either in-house or through their employment law advice-line service. By providing tailored solutions for individual clients they know that each business has different HR and employment law requirements. Empire also offer fully integrated Health & Safety solutions providing a complete people management service.

From the beginning of July, Empire will be providing a branded-version of Youmanage’s ‘Online HR Toolkit’, as an integral part of their service offering to all clients.

Empire HR CEO, Steve Cook, explained, “our partnership with Youmanage keeps us at the forefront of HR service provision using ‘cloud computing’ to provide this integrated service delivery platform to all of our clients. We want to ensure that our clients provide their managers and employees with full visibility and a greater appreciation of their HR processes and policies. Our new service proposition will empower HR personnel, line managers and employees by providing full self-serve capability to access employee information on-demand; users will have the ability to process administrative HR tasks, such as authorising holiday requests, undertaking a disciplinary process or a performance review, whilst providing employers with real time management information. 

We have taken considerable time to know the HR software market very well and we were very impressed when we saw what Youmanage had to offer. Because the Youmanage platform focuses on the needs of line managers, as well as HR users, we believe it can offer benefits far beyond that of any traditional HR software, helping to boost employee engagement and productivity as well as simplifying administration and automating manual processes.

The fact that it’s completely web-based was seen as an important factor for us in providing a web portal to display and publish our current products, services and documentation content to all of our clients. We’re excited about working with Youmanage to deliver great services to our clients.”

Youmanage’s online HR toolkit delivers all of the tools, information, processes and guidance that managers and HR users need to be effective - in one easy-to-use service, based on a set of rules that are in line with HR best practice. The system offers a comprehensive suite of modules that support all of the key aspects of a typical employee lifecycle, from recruiting to managing someone out of the business.

To date, Youmanage has not actively targeted Employment Law firms or HR Consultancy businesses to distribute their online HR toolkit more readily, so the partnership with Empire HR is a notable expansion of the company’s activities.

Youmanage CEO, Nick Pye, said, “We’re delighted to be working with Empire in this exciting partnership. With their commitment towards supporting their clients and maximising the use of technology to drive efficiencies, Empire has a very powerful and innovative proposition. Although some of Empire’s main competitors offer a simple HR database for the purpose of simple employee record keeping, they don’t have a technologically advanced toolkit, complete with workflow processes that guide managers through any HR undertaking, giving them a true and tangible competitive advantage in their field. With their enviable client base and commitment towards delivering an enhanced service to all of their clients, Empire is in a very strong commercial position and this is a very important strategic relationship for Youmanage.

“The fact that an established company such as Empire HR was keen to become a partner is further validation of the fact that Youmanage is a market-leading product, which offers significant advantages over traditional HR systems. I think this partnership is good news for Youmanage, Empire, and our future customers.”

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