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The software discipline that manages an organisation’s people: hiring, onboarding, records, leave, attendance, payroll and exit.

A superset of HRM focused on treating employees as strategic capital: talent acquisition, performance, succession, learning, and compensation strategy.

The system of record for employee data. Where the source of truth for "who works here, in what role, since when" lives.

A platform that combines HRIS (employee records) with operational workflows (leave, attendance, payroll, performance).

Tracking time-off requests, balances, accruals and policy compliance.

The first-30/60/90-days process of integrating a new hire into the company, including documents, training and assets.

The reverse process of onboarding: clearance, asset recovery, final settlement, and exit paperwork.

The cycle of setting goals, evaluating progress, calibrating ratings and sharing feedback.

Sourcing, screening and hiring candidates — including the job-requisition, posting, applicant-tracking and offer flow.

Software that moves candidates through hiring stages and stores their application data.

A searchable internal database of past applicant CVs for future hiring.

A measurable indicator that signals whether an objective is being met.

A defined area of accountability for an employee — the "what they own" beyond day-to-day tasks.

A goal-setting framework where each objective is paired with 3–5 measurable key results.

The end-to-end process of calculating, approving and disbursing employee compensation, including statutory deductions.

A per-employee, per-period statement showing gross pay, deductions and net pay.

A single execution of payroll for a defined period and employee set — moves through Draft → Finalized → Approved → Disbursed.

Compensation paid above the regular rate for hours worked beyond the standard schedule.

A retirement-savings deduction matched by employer contribution, mandated in many South Asian markets.

Pakistan’s statutory old-age pension scheme — a small employer + employee deduction is mandatory.

Paying employees in a foreign currency (e.g. USD / EUR) while their tax residence is in another country (e.g. Pakistan).

The last pay-out at offboarding: salary owed + leave encashment + bonuses − deductions − loan balances.

Recording when employees start work, take breaks, and end work — the input to payroll.

Verifying employee identity on check-in using face descriptors computed by an on-device or cloud model.

Verifying employee identity on check-in using a physical biometric — fingerprint, face, iris.

A configured working pattern (days, hours, breaks) assigned to an employee or team.

Working from a location other than the employer’s office, with or without a formal agreement.

A published commitment to availability, performance or response time — typically expressed as a percentage.

The maximum data loss your business is willing to accept in a disaster — usually measured in hours.

The maximum time the business is willing to be down during a recovery — usually measured in hours.

The EU regulation governing how personal data of EU residents may be collected, processed and stored.

An auditable framework for evaluating a SaaS vendor’s security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy.

The full chronological record of who did what, when — typically immutable.

The process of requesting, approving, ordering and receiving goods or services from external vendors.

A formal commitment to buy specified goods or services from a vendor at agreed terms.

The record that goods ordered against a PO have been physically received in good condition.

Small day-to-day cash spending tracked against an auditable ledger and reimbursement workflow.

Repaying an employee for an out-of-pocket expense they incurred on behalf of the business.

Tracking company-owned assets (laptops, monitors, phones, vehicles) and their assignment to employees.

Stock of consumable items the business holds for use or resale, tracked by quantity and movement.

A ticketing system for internal employees to report issues and request support.

Coordinating people, tasks and timelines to deliver a defined outcome.

An append-only record of every meaningful action taken inside the system.

A permission model where actions are gated by named roles, not by individual user assignments.

A SaaS architecture where multiple customers share the same instance, with strict data isolation per customer.

A signed token format used by web APIs to represent an authenticated identity.

JWT signing algorithm using RSA with SHA-256 — asymmetric, so the verifier never has the signing key.

Google’s push-notification service for Android (and cross-platform) clients.

Apple’s push-notification service for iOS, iPadOS and macOS clients.

A workflow where an employee uses one corporate identity to access many apps without re-authenticating.

An HTTP callback fired by one system to notify another that something happened.