One employee record, from offer letter to final settlement

What People is

People is the HR and payroll app of One3. It covers eight modules: Core HR, Recruit (ATS), Attendance & Leave, Payroll, Expenses & Travel, Performance & Talent, Learning and Engagement. Core HR is included with the app. The others are add-ons, and Recruit, Learning and Expenses can also be bought on their own.

The central idea is one record. An employee is a role on the same shared person record that CRM, Finance, Work and Identity already use. A candidate who accepts an offer becomes an employee without re-entry. Nothing is copied between an ATS, an HRMS, a payroll tool and an IT directory, so nothing drifts.

How it works with the rest of One3

• Identity: when an employee is activated, a user account, seat and roles are provisioned. When they exit, access is revoked and any Digital Employees they own are paused until ownership moves.
• Payroll inputs: locked attendance, approved expenses, CRM commissions and approved Projects timesheets arrive as typed payroll inputs. Late changes become next-period adjustments.
• Finance: finalised payroll posts a journal to Accounts by cost centre. Company-paid expenses go to Accounts payable, with GST input credit flagged for review.
• Sign, Calendar and WhatsApp: offer letters are signed through One3 Sign, interviews are scheduled through Calendar, and frontline staff can punch attendance, apply for leave and read payslips over WhatsApp.
• AI Workforce: Digital Employees appear in the same org chart as people, each with a human supervisor, KPIs and cost.

Control you can prove

Every change in People is a typed Action with a risk tier and an audit entry. Finalising a payroll run, releasing salary payments and marking an employee as exited are R4 Actions. They always need a human approver with step-up authentication, and no agent can hold them. A finalised run is never edited. Corrections are new adjustment or reversal runs with a reproducible calculation trace.

AI in hiring and performance is advisory. A screening assistant explains fit against criteria with evidence. It never rejects a candidate. A review assistant drafts summaries that managers edit and employees can contest. Pay and tax are always computed by versioned rule engines, never by a language model.

India first

Indian statutory rules (PF, ESI, state PT and LWF, TDS, gratuity, bonus, Labour Codes wage definition) are planned as effective-dated rule data. Each rule links to a Fact Register entry, and every rate and due date must be verified with experts before use. Statutory details in this page are pointers, not legal advice; verify with counsel and a chartered accountant.

When

People is not part of Year 1. Core HR, Attendance & Leave, Payroll v1 and Expenses are planned for Year 2 PI-1, with Payroll GA only after parallel runs with design partners. Recruit and Performance follow in PI-2. Learning and Engagement are planned for Year 3 (W4).