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Best HR Software: 10 Platforms Compared (2026)
Ten HR platforms compared by the job each is built for, published pricing as of September 2026, where each falls short, and a chooser that shortlists three.
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HR Guides and Templates
Human resources is where the employment relationship is written down: the offer, the forms, the policies, the leave, the warning, the separation. Every step has a document and most have a deadline set by federal or state law. The guides here give you the document, built by a generator from your own terms, and the rule behind it, linked to the statute or the agency guidance. Where a figure is quoted it comes from a named source with a date, and where the law differs by state we say which states and what changes.
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New to this topic? New Hire Forms Checklist covers the deadlines that carry penalties, and Best HR Software compares the ten platforms most teams end up choosing between.
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Employment Verification Letter
Generate an employment verification letter for a lender, landlord or agency, with the facts to state, what to leave out, and who is allowed to ask.
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Offer Letter Template
Generate a job offer letter from your terms, with the clauses that keep it from becoming a contract, the state wage notices that go with it, and what to omit.
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Termination Letter Template
Generate a termination letter for cause, layoff or at-will separation, with the final pay, benefits and state notice lines it needs and the sentences to keep out.
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Job Description Template
Build a job description that separates essential from marginal duties, states physical demands and pay range, and holds up when an accommodation request comes.
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New Hire Forms Checklist
Every form a new hire must complete, the federal deadlines that carry penalties, the state forms that vary, and a checklist that dates each item from the start day.
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Probationary Period Policy
Generate a 90-day introductory period policy, see why the word probation can cost you at-will status, what changes in Montana, and how to run the period well.
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Progressive Discipline Policy
Generate a progressive discipline policy with the steps, active periods and skip clause that keep it from becoming a promise, plus the union and exempt rules.
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Employee Offboarding Checklist
An interactive offboarding checklist from notice to 30 days after the last day: final pay deadlines, access revocation, COBRA timing and state notices.
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Severance Pay
How severance pay is calculated, the typical weeks per year of service, when it is required, the ADEA and WARN rules a release must meet, and a calculator.
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FMLA Forms and Eligibility
Which FMLA form applies to each leave, the employer notice deadlines that start at the request, an eligibility checker for the three tests, and the traps.
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Furlough vs Layoff
How a furlough differs from a layoff in pay, benefits, unemployment and legal exposure, the exempt-employee rule that catches employers, and a WARN screen.
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Reasonable Accommodation Examples
Forty reasonable accommodation examples by limitation, a request form generator, the interactive process step by step, what undue hardship means, and what it costs.
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Pay Transparency Laws by State
Which states require a salary range in job postings in 2026, the thresholds and effective dates, what the range must contain, and a lookup for your headcount.
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HR Metrics
The HR metrics worth tracking with the formula for each, a calculator for turnover, retention, cost per hire, time to hire and absence, and the 2025 benchmarks.
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Reference Check Questions
Twenty-five reference check questions grouped by what they reveal, a script builder, the questions the law does not allow, and how to give a reference safely.
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Bereavement Leave Policy
Generate a bereavement leave policy from your own terms, with the statutory floor added for the six states that mandate leave, and the key decisions explained.
Time Tracking
Final Paycheck Laws by State
Final paycheck deadlines for all 50 states and D.C. when fired versus resigning, whether unused vacation must be paid, and the penalties for paying late.
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Employee Write-Up Template
A generator that produces a written warning from your facts, the eight sections a defensible write-up contains, the wording to avoid, and when it is the wrong tool.
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Employee Onboarding Checklist
An interactive onboarding checklist from offer to day 90, with the federal deadlines that carry penalties and the items that decide whether a new hire stays.
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Stay Interview Questions
Twenty-two stay interview questions grouped by what they uncover, a script builder, how it differs from an exit interview, and what to do with the answers.
Time Tracking
Attendance Policy Template
Generate an attendance policy from your settings, choose points or occurrences, and get the protected-absence clause right, where most policies go wrong.
Engagement
Employee Engagement Survey Questions
Thirty-five engagement survey questions grouped by driver, a builder that assembles your survey, the scale and anonymity rules, and what to do with the results.
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One-on-One Meeting Template
A 45-minute one-on-one agenda, 25 questions grouped by purpose, a builder that assembles yours, and the rules that stop one-on-ones becoming status updates.
Time Tracking
PTO Accrual Calculator
Work out an accrued PTO balance by pay period, by hour worked or as a lump sum, with carryover and caps, plus the state rules on whether unused time can expire.
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Performance Improvement Plan
A copy-paste performance improvement plan template, plus the accommodation and retaliation rules that decide whether it holds up if the employment ends.
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Exit Interview Questions
Twenty-four exit interview questions grouped by what they tell you, why the answers are biased by design, and how to turn them into something a manager can act on.
Time Tracking
Job Abandonment
What job abandonment is, how many days it takes, a policy and letter to copy, and the FMLA, unemployment and final-pay rules that decide whether it holds.
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Employee Handbook
What an employee handbook has to contain, the disclaimer and acknowledgement it needs, and the labour law standard that makes broad policy wording unenforceable.
Productivity
Performance Review Template
A copy-paste performance review template, the questions that produce useful answers, and the rating scales that quietly make reviews worse.