Labour hire & recruitment
Labour hire and temp desk software for the whole assignment.
Workhr runs a labour-hire or temp desk end to end: deploy workers, sign them in on site, capture timesheets, and pay and bill. For agencies that place temps and contractors, it is the layer your ATS was never built for.
Most desks are held together by a patchwork: an ATS for candidates, a spreadsheet for the roster, paper timesheets from site, and a payroll system that only sees what someone types into it. The cost is not the software, it is the admin between the pieces. Workhr runs the whole assignment, from the moment a worker is deployed to the moment they are paid and the client is billed, alongside the tools you already have.
The app your temps actually open.
This frame is the real Workhr worker app running on a demo tenant. Shifts, GPS sign-in, timesheets, payslips and messages live in the worker's pocket, and what lands here lands in your pay run without being typed twice.
- ✓ Today's shift and GPS sign-in front and centre
- ✓ Timesheets captured with the shift, not chased after it
- ✓ Payslips, messages and job alerts in the same place
Roster and deploy at volume
Fill shifts across sites and clients from one view, see coverage at a glance, and deploy the right worker to the right job. Built to scale to hundreds or thousands of temps without the roster turning into a spreadsheet no one trusts.
- Coverage-first scheduling across sites
- Deploy workers to shifts in a few taps
- Scales to thousands of temps
The layer your ATS doesn't cover
Your ATS owns candidates, jobs and placements. Workhr owns everything after: deploying the worker, capturing the shift, approving the timesheet, and pushing pay and bill. Keep JobAdder or your ATS; Workhr runs the live desk on top of it.
- Placements sync in from your ATS
- Deploy, roster and manage the assignment
- No double entry between systems
GPS site sign-in and digital timesheets
Workers sign in and out on site in the Workhr app, GPS-stamped, so you can prove who was where and when. Timesheets are captured with the shift, approved by the supervisor in the client portal, and never re-typed. Paper timesheets and end-of-week chasing disappear.
- GPS-stamped site sign-in and sign-out
- Supervisor approval from the client portal
- Breaks, allowances and cost codes captured
Clean pay and bill, every week
Approved hours flow to payroll and invoicing without re-keying, with rates snapshotted at the shift so a rate change never reprices a worked shift. The margin you placed at is the margin you bill. Keep Astute or Xero; Workhr feeds them clean, approved hours.
- Pay and bill from one approved timesheet
- Shift-aware rate snapshots protect margin
- Works with JobAdder, Astute and Xero
Why teams choose Workhr
Designed for high-turnover temp desks running hundreds of shifts a week, not a handful of permanent staff.
Workhr adds the live-desk layer on top of JobAdder or your ATS. No migration, no rip and replace.
Rate snapshots and one-source pay and bill mean the margin you placed at is the margin you invoice.
Common questions
- What is labour hire software?
- Labour hire software runs the live side of a temp assignment: deploying workers to shifts, signing them in on site, capturing timesheets, and turning approved hours into pay and bill. Workhr does all of that in one system.
- What is temp desk software?
- Temp desk software runs the post-placement side of a recruitment agency's temp and contract business: deploying workers, capturing timesheets, and turning approved hours into pay and bill. Workhr provides that layer on top of your ATS.
- Does Workhr replace my recruitment ATS?
- No. Workhr keeps your ATS, such as JobAdder, and adds the deployment, timesheet and pay-and-bill layer it was never built for. Placements sync in, so there is no double entry.
- Can it handle high-volume temp desks?
- Yes. Workhr's scheduling is coverage-first and built to scale to hundreds or thousands of temps across many sites and clients without the roster becoming an unmanageable spreadsheet.
- Does Workhr work for labour hire in New Zealand and Australia?
- Yes. Workhr is built for trans-Tasman labour hire and staffing, with GPS site sign-in, rate-accurate pay and bill, and integrations with JobAdder, Astute Payroll and Xero used on both sides of the Tasman.
- How does it help a temp or contract desk day to day?
- It removes the admin between the placement and the invoice: GPS site sign-in, supervisor-approved timesheets, and clean weekly pay and bill, so consultants stop chasing paper and get back to placing.
Run the whole assignment in one place.
See how Workhr takes a shift from deployment to a signed-in worker, an approved timesheet, and pay and bill, with your ATS still in the loop.
1. Emergence Capital, The Rise of the Deskless Workforce and State of Technology for Deskless Workers.
2. Yourco and Grossman Group analyses of productivity lost to poor frontline communication.