Personio

Personio is a subscription HR platform for small and mid-sized organisations, sold as one connected system rather than a set of separate modules: Core HR records, recruiting and talent management, performance and development, and payroll all sit on the same employee data, with workflow automation and role-based access control across the platform. HR teams work from a web dashboard covering employee profiles, documents and e-signatures, time tracking, absence and time-off requests, and reporting, and an AI assistant answers workforce questions in plain language and drafts performance-review summaries.

Pricing is per employee and starts at €7.60 per month. The Core plan covers profiles, documents, analytics and reporting, workflow automation, time tracking and preliminary payroll; CorePro adds position management, unlimited legal entity management, workforce planning and API access. Payroll can be configured per legal entity rather than as one global template, and the platform connects to more than 200 other tools. It reports use by over 16,000 organisations covering roughly 1.6 million employees, and says customer data stays in European data centres with GDPR alignment, ISO 27001, single sign-on and audit logs. Named customers include Node4, Core and the MOCO museums.

The company was founded in 2015 in Munich, where four co-founders who met at the Center for Digital Technology and Management built it for European SMEs. It is still headquartered in Munich and also has offices in Madrid, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelona and New York, with around 1,500 staff of 88 nationalities. The product is proprietary and vendor-hosted, with no self-hosted edition, and targets organisations from roughly 10 up to a few thousand employees.