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ELMO 2026 HR Industry Benchmark Report — Australia
The AI capability gap: trends, opportunities and challenges for the year ahead
Unify Data, HR, Payroll and Workforce Management
From time-saving to strategic
To shift from firefighting to strategic HR, time-saving software is no longer enough.
With ELMO, you can run your workforce brilliantly today, and gain the confidence to design the one you’ll need tomorrow.
Built in and for Australia’s mid market. Trusted by 1.2M employees.
The Complete AI Workforce Platform
ELMO brings HR, payroll and workforce management together on one employee data foundation, adds native AI that turns connected data into answers teams can act on, and pairs organisations with local ANZ experts who guide the change.
From running the workforce today to designing the one you will need next, on one platform.
From automation to strategic planning
Solutions for the entire employee lifecycle
HR Core – Including AI Insights
Find out moreCentralise employee records from hire-to-retire and automate your people management.
Layer ELMO’s AI-powered natural language insights engine to inform workforce decisions in real time, no spreadsheets or data analysts required.
Recruitment
Find out morePost once to key job boards, then use custom application forms and AI Screening to quickly attract, filter and shortlist the strongest candidates.
Use gen-AI to write descriptions, automate posting to multiple job boards, centralise candidate data, and generate offer letters in one workflow.
Onboarding
Find out moreAutomate onboarding workflows and say goodbye to manual, inconsistant processes with no tracking or reporting.
Deliver a smooth and professional onboarding experience while keeping new hires engaged and gaining momentum.
Payroll
Find out moreGet mated to the right payroll with a curated network of best-in-breed payroll to suit your business.
One system so your people processes and payroll data can work together with less manual re-keying and reconciliation
Learning Management
Find out moreAssign training automatically, track completions and support every employee with learning that’s relevant.
Build courses in-house with quizzes, interactive elements and more, or tap into our library of 400+ ready-made courses.
Performance Management
Find out moreLink employee goals to broader objectives for better alignment, transparency and accountability.
Monitor progress and set alerts to automate tracking and reminders, and gain insight into employee performance, productivity, and progress.
Workforce Design
Find out moreDevelop capability frameworks and identify skills gaps in minutes, not months.
Generate frameworks for emerging skills, benchmark current capabilities and develop personalised learning pathways.
Why “Complete” matters
Automating workflows and managing compliance is table stakes.
You also need to see where your workforce is today, and help them prepare for what’s next.
You also need to see where your workforce is today, and help them prepare for what’s next.
Same old problems
Continuous firefighting
3-5 systems that don’t talk to each other
Fragmented data sources that take days to reconcile
Managing compliance after an incident happens
Poorly designed or complex tools staff don’t like to use
AI that doesn’t know your organisation or impact daily work
6-month setup, then ignored by support once you’re live
No voice in a product roadmap, that fails to keep up with changing needs
Critical risk:
Not keeping up on day-to-day work, and falling even further behind on HR’s strategic role in reskilling your staff and planning for an AI-ready future.
With ELMO
Time and support to drive outcomes
Hire-to-retire HR, payroll and rostering that work together
One source of employee data that HR and Finance can trust
Australian compliance built into the platform, manage risk upfront
Easy-to-use and intuitive for all employees
AI that generates content, surfaces insights and recommends actions based on your data
Live in 60-90 days, with local experts you can actually talk to
Rapid product innovation informed by Australian customer input
Key advantage:
Solve for today’s compliance and operational challenges, and access AI capabilities and expertise to help HR teams prepare for what’s ahead.
“All-in-one” tools are yesterday’s solution
Most HR & Payroll software save you time. You need more than automation.
Stretched HR teams need a complete partner to finally get ahead.
Stretched HR teams need a complete partner to finally get ahead.
Complete foundation
Unify employee data, locally hosted in Australian AWS data centres.Enterprise-grade security. Australia’s first HR platform with AI Management ISO-certification.
Complete coverage
Covers every worker type, employee lifecycle and organisational maturity level – to meet Australia’s mid-market complexity and compliance.
Complete insight and action
Maximise the value of AI by making it work across all your employee data, not parts of it. Go from real-time workforce insights to action, without having to login to a separate tool.
Complete partnership
Real partnership goes beyond support. Local experts help with adoption and success planning. Further, ELMO’s HR team share learnings from our own product use cases and workforce AI journey.
Unify HR and payroll in ELMO
Payroll your way
Choose from our network of payroll partners or integrate your existing payroll. Our experts help you figure out the best-fit – so you don’t have to compromise on choice, compliance, connectivity or data accuracy.
Flexibility to right-fit payroll
ELMO expertise combines our best-in-class HRIS with the right payroll engine for your needs.
Enhanced integration
Simplify payroll setup and keep your employee data in sync.
Maintain data accuracy and security
Enjoy the benefits of fully integrated HR and Payroll, including increased efficiency, data accuracy, and security.
Right for today, relevant for tomorrow
Wherever you are right now, we’ll meet you here and grow with you.
Start with your urgent challenges
Get started with the most relevant solution within ELMO’s HR, payroll and workforce management capabilities.Address real pain points with solutions that set you up for the next step forward.
From siloed tools to a connected platform
Streamline and connect “hire-to-retire” workflows in an easy-to-use, intelligent platform.Unify data on one place to make operations seamless and real-time insights possible.
Beyond operations to strategic planning
Design the capabilities and skills required to keep your workforce AI-ready and future-proofed.Go from reporting and admin, to AI-powered strategic planning that impacts retention and revenue.
