HR & Workforce community
Paying and managing people correctly, everywhere they work.
Statutory rates change with each budget, most workers are paid by mobile money, and many teams span several countries and contract types. A payroll error is a missed rent payment for someone.
Open to every member. Join now and help shape what it builds next.
What we work on
Four problems define this community’s work right now. Every sprint, review and essay here comes back to one of them.
Payroll and statutory compliance
Tax, pension and health deductions kept current as the rules change, in every country a team works.
Disbursement
Paying salaries and casual wages straight to mobile money, with a clean audit trail.
Distributed teams
Leave, contracts and records for teams spread across borders and employment types.
Skills and hiring
Matching people to work on what they can show they have built, not on the CV alone.
Questions we are working through
No one has settled these yet. They come up in every sprint, and members argue them out in essays and reviews.
- How do you keep payroll correct when statutory rates change mid-month?
- What does a fair record of casual work look like for someone paid daily?
- How do you hire on what someone can do, not where they studied?
Our impact
- System in HR & Workforce we have built and shipped
- 1
Shipped in HR & Workforce
- KaziHR & Workforce · Kenya · 2024
Payroll, leave, and statutory compliance for distributed teams, with M-Pesa disbursement built in.
25k payslips / month320 SMEs onboarded
From the field
No essays here yet. Members write about what actually happens on the ground, and every essay is edited before it is published. Apply to write
Your first build
New members pick one of these for their first month. Each is small enough to finish and real enough to show an employer or an investor.
A statutory deductions engine
Compute tax, pension and health deductions for one country, with the rules versioned by date.
- Rules engines
- Testing
- Python
A casual-wage ledger
Record daily work and pay casual workers by mobile money, with a payslip they can show a lender.
- Payments
- Web app
A skills-based shortlist
Rank applicants on work samples instead of CVs, and explain each ranking to the hiring manager.
- Systems
- ML
- Fairness
Words you will hear
New here? These come up in your first week. Plain meanings, no jargon.
- Statutory deductions
- Amounts the law requires an employer to withhold and pay over, such as income tax and pension.
- Payslip
- A record of pay and deductions. Often the only proof of income a worker has.
- Employer of record
- A company that legally employs staff on another firm's behalf, in a country where that firm has no entity.
- Gross-to-net
- Working out take-home pay from gross pay after every deduction.
Who you will meet
- Engineers building HR and payroll systems
- HR leads and people managers
- Recruiters and talent partners
- Founders in workforce and hiring
How the community runs
- Every week
Build sprint
Bring a real problem from your work in the sector. Leave with progress, reviewed by people who have shipped the same thing.
- Every week
Office hours
Drop in with a model that will not converge, a regulator question or a hiring decision. Practitioners answer.
- Every month
Demo day
Members show working systems to the community, mentors and invited investors. Demos, not decks.
The team behind it
Lead the HR & Workforce community
We are looking for experienced practitioners to lead this community: host one session a month, review members’ work and shape what it builds next.
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