Calculate the ROI of HR software

Typical savings: payroll 60-80%, leave/attendance 70-90%, onboarding 50%, compliance/reporting 80%. Average: 3-6 hours per employee per month across all functions.

Total cost-to-company ÷ annual working hours. For a ₹6L CTC HR generalist: ₹6L ÷ 2,000 hours = ₹300/hour. Add benefits load: ₹400-500/hour effective.

Auto-tracks deadline (PF, ESI, TDS challans), validates against rules, generates correct challans. Reduces penalty risk from late filing or wrong calculation — penalties can be ₹10K-1L per incident.

Hard to quantify but real: faster onboarding (better candidate experience), self-service (less HR query overhead), data accuracy (no payroll disputes), audit trail (compliance audits). Adds 20-40% more value beyond the time-saving math.

No, it augments them. Same HR team can manage 2-3× more employees without burnout. Better than hiring more HR; supports scaling without proportional HR overhead.

For most teams: 1-3 months. The bigger the team, the faster the payback (savings scale with team size, software cost typically scales sub-linearly).

400-800% for SMBs (50-200 employees), 1000%+ for larger teams. Compounded savings after year 1 are nearly pure margin since software cost stays roughly flat.

Yes — implementation, training, data migration (one-time), integration with existing tools. Budget 10-20% on top of annual software cost for a clean ROI calculation.