You run hiring, onboarding, performance, pay, compliance and wellbeing across a stack that doesn't talk to itself, then get asked for one answer about the workforce. October People puts every workflow on one live employee record, October Health puts care and signal beside it, and embedded experts help your managers act. The answer is on screen before the board asks.
Four pressures every People leader carries, and what each one really costs.
HRIS, ATS, payroll, LMS, a survey tool and the spreadsheets that glue them together. Every change is re-keyed somewhere, and around 40% of HR admin time goes on reconciling data instead of using it.
Reviews run on gut feel, pay decisions on last year's spreadsheet and headcount on a forecast nobody trusts. When the board asks why, the evidence is in six places and none of them agree.
Annual surveys land months after the damage. Managers carry their team's pressure without a playbook, and the first signal HR gets is a resignation.
Employment Equity, B-BBEE, I-9, EEO-1, POPIA and a Speak Up line nobody trusts. Penalties are up 45% in five years and the audit trail lives in email.
The platform and the experts that turn HR from administration into evidence.
34 modules, from the ATS to compensation to compliance, reading and writing the same record. A promotion is true in payroll, the org chart and the review cycle the moment it happens.
Cara sources candidates overnight, applications rank themselves with a written reason, reviews calibrate against a curve and managers get nudges before problems reach your desk. Every model is published and a person decides.
October Health puts sessions, coaching and an AI companion in every pocket, landing around 65% utilisation, with team-level signal that reaches you before the exit interview.
South African and US statutory suites built in, anonymous Speak Up cases, versioned policies with acknowledgements and an audit trail with chain integrity, all on the record.
Comparable teams, real interventions and the result attached to the work.
Size it to your headcount and see the year-one value of admin removed, burnout avoided and people retained.
Illustrative. Blended value of reduced administration, absence and regretted attrition across a typical mid-market rollout. Your numbers will vary.
Yes. October People is a full HCM: employee records, ATS, onboarding, time and leave, performance, learning, careers, compensation, compliance, surveys, workforce planning and AI insights on one record. Start with the modules that matter now and add the rest as you go. It integrates with more than 40 HR and workplace systems if you keep some in place.
October People is the HR system of record. October Health is everyday care, engagement signal and embedded experts for wellbeing. They share one intelligence layer, so a team under pressure shows up beside the performance, leave and pay context that explains it. Health signal stays private; the People record stays operational.
Weeks, not quarters. Embedded experts run the migration and rollout with you, and most teams see their first usable insight within about eight weeks of launch.
Every model has a named purpose, published evaluation results and a human decision point. October publishes its model register, governance policy and bias testing, and no customer data is used to train models.
Yes. Most teams start with the ATS, with performance and pay, or with wellbeing, and expand once the record is in place. Pricing is per module, so you only pay for what you switch on.
Book a walkthrough and see how October would put your hiring, performance, pay, compliance and wellbeing on one live record, and what that is worth.
