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Flare Employee Benefits Manufacturing Insights: 2026 HR Industry Benchmark Report
ELMO Software’s 2026 HR Industry Benchmark Report (HRIB) reveals that HR leaders in manufacturing are…
HR solutions for Manufacturing
HR that keeps your operations moving
Empower your workforce from the factory to the front office. ELMO helps manufacturing businesses stay safe and compliant, reduce manual admin, overcome talent gaps, and build workforce capability – so your people can focus on production, not paperwork.
Across HR leaders in manufacturing:
30
%
predict cyber and data threats as top workforce challenge
23
%
identify expanding and adopting AI as a major hurdle
22
%
reduced budgets and resources will create issues
How ELMO helps manufacturing companies
Labour shortages and productivity pressure?
Hire and onboard faster with automated workflows, AI-generated job ads and mobile pre-start forms. Get new hires site-ready sooner and close skills gaps before they hit production
Training and compliance challenges?
Stay audit-ready with automated learning. Assign, track and recertify mandatory training like first aid and high-risk licences, all in one place.
Limited workforce visibility?
Bring your people data together in one secure hub. Get real-time insights on turnover, engagement and productivity to make faster, smarter decisions.
Disconnected systems and manual admin?
Unify HR, payroll, learning and compliance in one platform. Cut double-handling, strengthen data security and give HR more time to focus on people, not paperwork.
Solutions for your unique challenges
A unified employee system of record
Explore HR CoreCentralise employee records from hire-to-retire and automate your people management.
Manage roles, licences and site-based records with full visibility and a system built for compliance and mobility.
Find and hire the right talent fast
Explore RecruitmentHire the right people, fast. Streamline approvals, advertise roles widely and build internal talent pools to reduce time to hire and improve workforce readiness.
Use gen-AI to write descriptions, automate posting to multiple job boards, centralise candidate data, and generate offer letters in one workflow.
Make first impressions count
Explore OnboardingSet your new hires up for success. Automate paperwork, site inductions and safety checks with a consistent process that supports productivity from day one.
Deliver a smooth and professional onboarding experience while keeping new hires engaged and gaining momentum.
Find your payroll fit
Explore PayrollTake control of payroll complexity. Handle shift penalties, overtime and awards, keeping your critical people data accurate and your business compliant.
One system so your people processes and payroll data can work together with less manual re-keying and reconciliation.
LMS that builds capability
Explore LearningAssign required training automatically, track completions and maintain certification records without chasing paper.
Build courses in-house with quizzes, interactive elements and more, or tap into our library of 400+ ready-made courses.
Performance that powers results
Explore Performance ManagementAlign individual objectives to business outcomes, identify top performers, and drive accountability across your manufacturing workforce.
Standardise reviews and capture performance data you can trust to support transparent, defensible pay and progression decisions.
Don’t just take our word for it
“ELMO has significantly contributed to building a stronger safety culture by providing readily available training records for investigations, enabling quick reporting to confirm employee acknowledgment and course completion.”
Emma Cross
Good Drinks
“Before we decided to implement ELMO, everything that we did was a manual process. Nothing was streamlined and nothing was achieved ‘at the click of a button’. It all involved heavy admin and there was a lot of back and forth with documentation and waiting for approval”
Ellie Hutton
Neumann Steel
“ELMO has streamlined the whole process. We have implemented onboarding workflows which are incredibly efficient. We simply assign a workflow and ELMO does the rest: allocating documents, learning modules and performance appraisals whilst sending emails and assigning tasks…it’s been a huge timesaver.”
Tegan Vincent
