HRIS built by people
who’ve done the work.
Most HRIS software is built by people who’ve never run a payroll. Workzoom wasn’t. Linda Woolley built her first payroll system in 1974. We haven’t forgotten where we came from.
Before the PC existed.
startup bet. Proven at scale.
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Trusted by leading employers
The shift that changed HR.
Every decade brought a new way of thinking about people management. Here’s how we got here, and where Workzoom fits.
- HR data exists, but lives in silos
- Each department manages its own records
- Reporting means re-keying or exporting
- Data starts moving to the web
- Self-service portals emerge but stay fragmented
- From “no system” to “too many systems”
- Approvals, onboarding, and reviews get systematized
- Automation arrives but stays departmental
- Leaders start asking: “can’t this all connect?”
- Centralized access, one employee record
- Timely data capture at the source
- Automating standardized processes
- Data-driven decision support
- More accurate data with less effort
The same problems.
Every organization.
We hear these in almost every first call. Verbatim. The tools change, the pain doesn’t.
These aren’t edge cases. They’re the most common things we hear from HR leaders across every industry and company size.
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“We run payroll out of three different spreadsheets.
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“HR has the data. Finance needs it. Nobody can get to it.
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“We don’t trust the numbers until someone manually checks them.
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“Onboarding a new hire takes two weeks and five people.
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“My HR team spends half their time answering questions the system should handle.
Built by people who lived it.
Not a lab.
In 1974, Linda Woolley built her first payroll system for Canadian enterprises. Not as a technologist experimenting in a new market. As a professional who understood payroll deeply, before the IBM PC existed. She built what her clients needed because she had lived the problem.
When Linda and Andy Woolley founded Nortek Solutions Inc. in 2000, they brought that foundation with them. The compliance depth, the service model, the conviction that software should serve practitioners rather than force them to adapt. Workzoom is their life’s work.
Founded her first payroll software company in 1974, before the personal computer existed. Built enterprise payroll systems for major Canadian organizations for over 25 years. Workzoom is her life’s work.
Co-architect of the Workzoom platform. Responsible for product direction. Has spent 25 years building the compliance depth and service model that defines Workzoom today.
Three things we won’t
compromise on.
One employee record across HR, Payroll, Workforce, and Talent. No imports, no integrations between modules, no reconciling data. When a record changes in HR, payroll knows immediately.
$4 per employee per suite per month. Implementation included. Support included. No setup fees, no annual contracts, no surprises. You know the price before you sign.
100% Canadian-owned. No US parent company. Choose Canadian or US cloud hosting, your data never leaves your chosen jurisdiction. Every client runs on a dedicated environment with its own database. No shared infrastructure, no co-mingled data.
Reframing what HR admin really means.
Most teams try to fix the symptom. The path that actually works looks like this.
Payroll runs seamlessly, and HR is no longer a tedious grind. It simplified how we work, letting us focus more on our people. A complete game-changer for our entire team.
Moving to Workzoom was the right move. It gave our dynamic report and payment structures the flexibility we needed, at the right price.
We would not be able to hire the way we do with the same resources. It has kept our headcount consistent without growing it, saving us time and money every single cycle.
Before Workzoom, we were buried in spreadsheets. Now HR is so much simpler. We spend less time on admin and more time supporting our staff and residents every single day.
Workzoom has offered us more than just tools. It has empowered us to excel in our field. This upgrade gives us more time to focus on team and community projects.
What mattered most was choosing a solution built for businesses like ours. Workzoom delivered everything we needed, from payroll to facial recognition clocks, and worked with us every step.
About Workzoom
Everything you'd want to know before booking a call, answered plainly.
Andy and Linda Woolley founded Workzoom through Nortek Solutions Inc., incorporated in 2000. Linda's background in payroll software dates to 1974, when she founded her first software company. That gives Workzoom a founding team with over 50 years of hands-on experience in HR and payroll technology.
Yes. 100% Canadian-owned and operated. The legal entity is Nortek Solutions Inc., incorporated in Canada. Clients choose their hosting jurisdiction, Canadian or US cloud, and data stays within that environment. Every client gets a dedicated database. No shared infrastructure, no US parent company.
Workzoom is built for mid-market organizations (50 to 5,000 employees) that need the full stack without enterprise overhead. We publish our pricing upfront ($4/employee/suite/month), include implementation, and assign the same support team from day one. Larger vendors charge $8 to $25 per employee, add setup fees of $5K to $50K, and rotate support teams on a ticket basis.
Zero. Implementation is included in the monthly per-employee fee. We do not charge setup fees. We do not believe in implementation fees as a barrier to getting started. That's the risk we share with you.
Yes, fully. We support CPP, EI, ROE, T4, provincial tax, union rules, overtime including unscheduled day double time, shift differentials, and multi-province payroll. We also support US payroll, Bahamas payroll (NIB), and select Caribbean markets.
Absolutely. Many clients start with payroll or HR only and add suites over time. Pricing is modular: $4 per employee per suite per month. You pay for what you use, and expand when you're ready.
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