7 HR automation tools to improve efficiency in 2025
Modern HR teams oversee a wider-than-ever range of responsibilities. A single People professional might handle all workflows from onboarding and engagement to performance management and retention.
In this environment, automation has become critical. The right HR automation solution can streamline repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on high-impact, strategic initiatives. Some of the top automation use cases include analytics and reporting, reviews and performance management, and employee data management.
Thanks to AI, industry-leading tools are getting smarter by the day; more than eight in ten HR leaders agree that using AI has increased their department’s efficiency.*
If you find yourself in a similar situation — interested in the benefits of HR automation but unsure which software is right for your company — you’ve come to the right place. Let’s review the top HR automation solutions and dive deep into their offerings, pros, cons, and best use cases.
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*Leapsome’s Workforce Trends Report, 2024
The information below is based on our research in November and December 2024. All user feedback referenced in the text has been sourced from independent software review platforms (like G2 and Capterra) in November and December 2024.
The top tasks HR professionals want to automate in 2025
There are many creative ways to use AI in HR. While you can use generative AI tools for brainstorming or data analysis, HR automation solutions can take AI further, routinely executing core HR tasks with minimal oversight.
Generally speaking, HR processes that are repetitive and time-consuming (for example, data entry and onboarding workflows) are great candidates for automation. According to our 2024 Workforce Trends Report, HR professionals are specifically interested in automating the following processes:
Analytics and reporting
HR analytics help you understand how effective your People processes are by mapping your team’s success back to business outcomes. Meanwhile, employee reports help you maintain a smooth process across several HR functions, like payroll. But when things get chaotic in the HR department, it becomes challenging to continuously calculate ROI and monitor other HR analytics. HR automation software can help by hosting and crunching the numbers for you, providing powerful insights you can leverage to make data-driven decisions.
Reviews and performance management
Getting started is often the trickiest step in any performance management system. Automated tools can help by sending reminders to managers about important deadlines, consolidating feedback, and allowing for real-time performance tracking. AI-driven insights can also identify skill gaps or individual employee strengths, making career pathing more personalized and intuitive.
Employee data management
Accurate employee data and document handling are vital for maintaining compliance. However, manually entering and updating this kind of information can be tedious and cause mistakes. HR automation software like Leapsome allows all employee data to be hosted in a safe, single source.
1. Leapsome
Top HR automation tools
- Reviews — Streamlines the performance review process with automated evaluation cycles, ready-to-use templates, and professional growth roadmaps. Leapsome’s Reviews tool also provides powerful analytics based on employee data collected across several assessment cycles.
- Goals — Allows HR leaders and managers to define individual, team, and company-wide OKRs and SMART goals, set up cascading goal frameworks, and track progress.
- Surveys — Enables HR to create and manage any type of employee survey to gather feedback across your organization (including engagement, onboarding, and offboarding surveys). Features include AI-powered data analysis for actionable insights, multilanguage support for survey questions, and customizable settings to ensure inclusive and private feedback collection.
- Learning — Enables the creation of customized learning paths with AI support, plus access to high-quality content from trusted partners.
- Compensation — Allows People professionals to automate promotion management workflows and benefit from personalized, data-driven recommendations for their compensation strategies.
- Meetings — Improves meeting efficiency with intelligent, auto-generated agendas and action items based on talking points.
- Instant Feedback — Prompts team members to exchange feedback, syncs with Reviews and Goals for a comprehensive view of employee performance, and leverages AI to help managers provide more meaningful, actionable feedback.
- Competency Frameworks — Lets managers and reports generate collaborative development frameworks. The development matrix automatically updates as employees make progress, providing a transparent, real-time view of how they’re getting on.
- HRIS — Brings your day-to-day People management tasks together in one platform, including absence management, employee data management, time tracking, payroll, and secure document storage with appropriate visibility settings. Leapsome’s new HRIS leverages automation and AI across several core HR processes.
Best for
Leapsome provides a wide range of HR automation tools compared to other platforms on the market. Our HRIS is also a competitive differentiator, enabling People leaders to automate processes across their entire HR ecosystem. It’s best for growing teams and HR leaders looking to adopt a comprehensive, full-service automation solution.
- Industry-leading AI capabilities
- Consolidates HR capabilities and employee enablement tools in one platform
- Comprehensive, interconnected modules that drive high performance through smart analytics
- Highly flexible platform that adapts to your unique setup and evolving business needs
- User-friendly interface ensuring consistent adoption
- Superior templates and data visualization
- Modern approach to performance management
- Outstanding, global customer support
- Available in 32 languages
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- Some newer features are still being developed
- Certain advanced functionalities may require additional configuration or add-ons
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Leapsome is saving us lots of time during our performance appraisals and helps us build an open, value-oriented feedback culture. We’ve compared several platforms, and Leapsome stood out convincingly — it’s user-friendly, intuitive, and highly customizable. As a manager, I love how fast and openly the team at Leapsome reacts to our feedback and suggestions.
Dr. Christian Grobe
Leapsome enhances meaningful feedback and employee engagement. It’s a must-have for every company at any stage. We are growing toward 750 employees, but the rollout was easy, fast, and successful nonetheless. The great customer support helped us through the whole onboarding process.
Thore Schӓck
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With the help of the people analytics, you can quickly understand the significance of the results. We also frequently use the 1:1 function, which, although very simple, is extremely useful.
Erica Ancobia
We see the People team as a partner team rather than an admin team. We want to focus on our employees and not on processes. With Leapsome, we have automated the manual work around feedback and career development so that we can spend our time with our people: understanding their needs, guiding them through their very own DCMN lifecycle, and helping them find purpose in what they do.
Theresa Jasaraj
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Top HR automation tools
- Recruiting and onboarding — Simplifies the onboarding process with automated workflows for job posting, candidate communication, and onboarding templates.
- Performance management — Allows users to set up automated performance tracking and review processes to set goals, gather feedback, and monitor progress.
- Time tracking — Automates PTO requests, approvals, and balances.
- HR reporting and analytics — Delivers automated reporting and insights into workforce data, helping HR teams make data-driven decisions about hiring, retention, and performance.
Best for
BambooHR bills itself as a human resources management system (HRMS) and can automate a relatively broad range of HR workflows. It’s best for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that are more focused on automating HR tasks than engagement and enablement initiatives.
- Simple, aesthetically pleasing user interface (UI)
- Easy-to-use leave management and time tracking
- Wide variety of HR capabilities
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- Some users mention that employee engagement and orchestration features are limited
- Some users say that its ease of use backfires with a lack of customization options
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3. HiBob
Top HR automation tools
- Task list automation — Allows users to preconfigure and automate repetitive tasks like onboarding, offboarding, and employee lifecycle events. These workflows assign tasks, manage permissions, and automatically integrate People data to reduce manual intervention.
- Personalization — HR teams can customize automated workflows so recipients know exactly what they’re doing, why, and when it’s due.
Best for
HiBob’s automation functions are best suited for routine, repetitive, and expected events, like onboarding and offboarding. Its support for more comprehensive HR automation is limited. It’s best for small teams looking to automate their talent acquisition process.
- Good for small teams
- Routine tasks are easy to automate
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- Some users report that pre-configured automations don’t always work
- Some users mention that automatic messages are tricky to update or amend
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4. HireVue (previously AllyO)
Top HR automation tools
- Interview builder — Automates aspects of structured interviews with competency-based questions and evaluation guides, which helps provide greater consistency and fairness between live and recorded interviews.
- Automated scheduling — Lets candidates self-schedule interviews or pre-employment appointments with automated links. This feature isn’t included in the essential plan.
- Conversational AI — AI-driven chat solutions guide candidates through the application process, answer queries, and provide status updates.
Best for
HireVue has a more narrow focus, as it specifically provides automated solutions for applicant tracking and screening, plus candidate engagement. It’s best for companies with a high volume of candidates and frequent turnover.
- Ability to pre-record practice interviews
- Enables video calling and interviewing from anywhere, at any time
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- Some users mention HireVue’s higher cost, which may be prohibitive for some HR teams
- Some users report temporary technical difficulties and interruptions during live interviews
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5. Lattice
Top HR automation tools
- Review cycles — Helps automate performance evaluation processes by scheduling review cycles for specific timeframes (e.g., new hire reviews at three, six, or nine months) and setting recurring cycles to reduce manual oversight.
- Compensation — Generates compensation band visualizations based on benchmark and employee data, providing HR teams with clarity about their compensation strategy. Also enables budget tracking and organization-wide merit cycles.
- Surveys — Automates engagement surveys, as well as onboarding and exit surveys, then provides AI-generated analyses of results against industry benchmarks.
- Analytics and reporting — Provides automated reporting features that enable HR teams to assess engagement, performance, compensation, and growth trends in less time.
- Feedback and recognition — Automates continuous feedback and praise workflows, allowing teams to incorporate recognition into performance management systems.
Best for
Lattice is a good option for performance management task automation. It’s best for HR teams seeking structured review processes and data-driven insights into talent development.
- Integrates with project management tools
- Easy to use
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- Some users mention limited automation features
- Some users report a lack of flexibility
- Some users struggle with clunky performance-tracking features
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6. Rippling
Top HR automation tools
- Payroll — Calculates payroll and ensures compliance with local laws. It can also automate the direct deposit process.
- Time and attendance — Flags timesheet discrepancies and integrates attendance data into payroll processing.
- Benefits administration — Automates and streamlines the open enrollment process by ensuring employees can only view and select plans relevant to them.
- Recruiting — Allows hiring teams to automate the recruitment data-syncing process so candidate information is accurate across all systems. Users can also customize the interview process on a per-role basis and trigger events based on certain workflows.
Best for
Rippling emphasizes payroll, compliance, and benefits automation. Best for larger, compliance-focused organizations.
- Clear user interface
- Straightforward automation features
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- Some users mention that Rippling’s pricing is on the higher side and may be too expensive for small teams and startups
- Some users say that onboarding is challenging
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7. WorkTango
Top HR automation tools
- Recognition and rewards — Automates recognition for work anniversaries, birthdays, and life events by integrating with HRIS systems. These milestones can also come with points or tokens, redeemable through a marketplace of over 10 million options.
- Employee sentiment benchmarks — Lets WorkTango users review automated trend analyses after carrying out surveys, including industry comparisons of employee engagement and satisfaction at other organizations.
Best for
WorkTango focuses on improving the employee experience through automated recognition and rewards programs. It’s best for small HR teams looking to automate employee engagement initiatives.
- Good variety of employee engagement reporting features
- User-friendly interface
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- Some users express that WorkTango’s functionality is limited
- Some users mention that integrations are minimal
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Why customers love us
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Leapsome has been an absolute game-changer for me in terms of my professional growth and development. What I love best about Leapsome is how it has empowered me to take control of my career journey. The user-friendly interface and intuitive design of Leapsome have made it incredibly easy for me to navigate and utilize the platform.
Victor J.
Enterprise (1000+ emloyees)
Leapsome stands out as a best-in-class platform that seamlessly addresses a spectrum of organizational needs, excelling in performance management, employee engagement, OKRs, and learning. Its unparalleled strength lies in its deep integration with existing tools, effortlessly connecting with our HRIS, Slack, Calendar, and Jira.
Jamie S.
Mid-market (50-1000 employees)
Our company is new to Leapsome, but the onboarding has been fantastic. Our Leapsome contact has worked with us every step of the way to make sure that the review process will be easy on HR and all employees. He has walked us through the process step by step to create a review that will be ready to roll out pretty much immediately.
Karen H.
Mid-market (50-1000 employees)
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