The Single-Record HRIS vs Humi

Humi pricing, side by side with Employment Hero Canada, which runs Humi. Workzoom is $4 a suite, $16 all-in, published.

Workzoom is Canadian-owned and built for 50 to 5,000 employees. Employment Hero's own announcement says it agreed to acquire Humi on 8 January 2025 and that Humi will remain Canadian-operated (checked 2026-10-10).

Workzoom unified HR and payroll dashboard, compared with Humi

Employment Hero Canada's FAQ says Humi now operates under the Employment Hero brand in Canada, with the Humi brand kept for Quebec, and gives the Canadian team's headquarters as Toronto and global headquarters as Sydney (checked 2026-10-10). Employment Hero Canada's pricing page lists Payroll at $7 per employee per month with a $70 monthly minimum, Managed Payroll at $30 per employee per month with a $500 monthly minimum, and custom-priced HR plans with a minimum of 10 users, and does not state a currency (checked 2026-10-10). Workzoom is the Canadian-owned alternative for employers with 50 to 5,000 employees, with HR, payroll, workforce, and talent on one employee record at $4 per suite per month, implementation included, built as one system since 2000.

Named Canadian mid-market Workzoom customers include County of Renfrew, Silvera for Seniors, and Ktunaxa Nation Council.

Feature comparison

Every platform says it does it all.Here is how they compare.

Disclosure: Workzoom wrote this comparison and sells one of the two products in it. Every fact about Humi and Employment Hero below comes from the vendor's own site, with a link and the date we checked it (2026-10-10). Where the vendor does not publish something, we say so. We did not test its products. Read our comparison methodology.

This comparison sticks to what each vendor states on its own site. Where the vendor is silent, the cell says so. Read the footnotes.

Humi is a Canadian HR and payroll product. Employment Hero's own announcement says it agreed to acquire Humi on 8 January 2025 and that Humi will remain Canadian-operated (checked 2026-10-10). The questions for a buyer are scope and price: which products are included, what the published price covers, and where payroll is available.

Workzoom is 26-year-old Canadian-owned HR, Payroll, Workforce, and Talent on a single employee record at $16 per employee per month all-in, with implementation included. Named Canadian mid-market customers include County of Renfrew (over 900 employees), Silvera for Seniors (400 across 36 buildings), Ktunaxa Nation Council, Northern Sunrise County, and DCAG. Payroll is live in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas from one login.

"A qualitative ROI was achieved within a week of beginning implementation. Our account reps have been great as we work towards going live."
Greg Belmore · County of Renfrew (G2 review)Manager of Human Resources
Workzoom in production, the unified alternative to Humi

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Decision criteriaWorkzoomHumi
Database architectureSingle employee recordSync layer across separate databases
Scale and target market50 to 5,000 employeesSubscriptions list a 10-user minimum
Canadian payrollNativeCPP, EI, T4 and ROE listed
US and Caribbean payrollCanada, US, Bahamas + Caribbean enginesUS and Caribbean payroll not described on its Canadian payroll page
Shift scheduling and timeIncluded (Workforce suite)Scheduling and time products listed
Talent: performance, learning, successionIncluded (full Talent suite)Performance and recruiting listed
Ownership and data residencyCanadian-owned, Canadian hosting on AWS availableOwned by Employment Hero; data location not stated on FAQ
Support and implementationImplementation and support includedSupport described as local; hours not published
Published pricing$4 per suite, $16 all-in, publishedPayroll $7, minimum $70; HR plans custom
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Platform

Humi keeps HR, payroll, and scheduling in separate tools.One record changes everything.

The feature gaps above all trace to one root difference. Humi keeps HR in its own database while payroll, scheduling, and talent live in other tools. Workzoom runs all four together, so the work that happens between systems simply disappears.

Humi + a payroll tool + a scheduling tool + a learning system

The stitched stack

  • Re-key every new hire, raise, and termination into each separate system.
  • Export from HR and import to payroll every single pay cycle.
  • Reconcile the mismatches when two systems disagree on one employee.
  • Build and maintain integration middleware between tools never meant to talk.
  • No single source of truth, so the reports never quite agree.
  • An audit trail scattered in pieces across four vendors.

Workzoom

One employee record

  • HR, payroll, scheduling, and talent all work from one record.
  • No exports, no imports, no sync layer between HR and payroll.
  • A change in one place is true everywhere, instantly.
  • One source of truth across HR, payroll, scheduling, and talent.
  • One audit trail for the entire employee lifecycle.
  • One login, one bill, one team that configured it all.

Why Workzoom

Every platform does something well.Here is where Workzoom stands out.

Built for 50 to 5,000 employees

Workzoom is built for 50 to 5,000 employees, with named mid-market customers including County of Renfrew (over 900 employees, Ontario municipal), Silvera for Seniors (400 employees across 36 buildings in Calgary), Ktunaxa Nation Council (115 employees, indigenous government in BC), Northern Sunrise County (140 employees, Alberta municipal), and DCAG (multi-dealership Ontario automotive). Employment Hero Canada's pricing page states that a subscription must include a minimum of 10 users (checked 2026-10-10).

The full suite on one record

Employment Hero Canada's products page lists HR, payroll, scheduling, time and attendance, leave tracking, benefits, performance and recruiting products (checked 2026-10-10). Workzoom's difference is that HR, payroll, shift scheduling, biometric time clocking, performance, learning, and succession all read and write the same database row, so a change to a pay rate or a shift reflects everywhere at once.

26 years of Canadian payroll in production

Workzoom has processed Canadian payroll continuously since 2000, through every CPP, EI, and provincial tax-table change since.

Implementation included in the price

Workzoom implementation, including data migration, configuration, parallel pay validation, and post-go-live support, is included at the published $4 per suite per month with no initial setup fees. Employment Hero Canada's pricing page does not mention implementation fees (checked 2026-10-10). Greg Belmore at County of Renfrew described the implementation experience publicly: 'A qualitative ROI was achieved within a week of beginning implementation.'

Canadian-owned, and Canadian hosting on AWS available

Employment Hero's own announcement says it agreed to acquire Humi on 8 January 2025 and that Humi will remain Canadian-operated (checked 2026-10-10). Employment Hero Canada's FAQ says Humi now operates under the Employment Hero brand in Canada, with the Humi brand kept for Quebec, and gives the Canadian team's headquarters as Toronto and global headquarters as Sydney (checked 2026-10-10). Workzoom is Canadian-owned and Canadian-headquartered, founded in Toronto in 2000. Canadian hosting on AWS in Montreal is available. Hosting runs on AWS, a US company, so we do not claim immunity from foreign legal process. For Canadian public-sector and regulated buyers, ownership and hosting location are part of the evaluation.

Multi-country from one login

Employment Hero Canada's payroll page describes Canadian payroll and does not describe US or Caribbean payroll (checked 2026-10-10). Workzoom runs live payroll in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas in one system. Full payroll for Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados is on our roadmap, and we are scoping it now with launch partners.

Under the hood

One platform, or a rollup?

Two questions a feature table skips: is this built as one system, and who owns it today. Here is the honest answer for both.

Workzoom

Architecture

One unified employee record across HR, payroll, workforce, and talent.

Built or acquired

Built in-house on the Curos Technology Platform (2009 to 2010), not assembled from acquired products.

Ownership today

Privately held, Canadian-owned, founded 2000.

One system, one owner

Humi

Architecture

Employment Hero Canada's products page lists HR, payroll, scheduling, time and attendance, leave tracking, benefits, performance and recruiting products (checked 2026-10-10).

Built or acquired

Employment Hero's own announcement says it agreed to acquire Humi on 8 January 2025 and that Humi will remain Canadian-operated (checked 2026-10-10).

Ownership today

Employment Hero Canada's FAQ says Humi now operates under the Employment Hero brand in Canada, with the Humi brand kept for Quebec, and gives the Canadian team's headquarters as Toronto and global headquarters as Sydney (checked 2026-10-10).

Acquisition announced January 2025

Architecture and ownership facts above, sourced: [3]

Workzoom is Canadian-owned and has been built as one system since 2000.

Our clients

The teams that run their people on Workzoom.

See customer stories

Pricing

Transparent pricing, no surprises.

Workzoom

$4–$16

per employee / month

$4 per suite per month. All four suites = $16/employee/month. No initial setup fees, no long-term contract.

Humi

$7+

payroll, per employee / month (currency not stated)

Employment Hero Canada's pricing page lists Payroll at $7 per employee per month with a $70 monthly minimum, Managed Payroll at $30 per employee per month with a $500 monthly minimum, and custom-priced HR plans with a minimum of 10 users, and does not state a currency (checked 2026-10-10).

Source: employmenthero.com · Verified 2026-10-10

How this is calculated. Modeled at 200 employees, all four suites, over three years. Workzoom's figure is its published ratepm1; competitor ranges are quote-based and include typical setup, migration, and implementation fees. Send your real headcount and country mix for a vendor-specific total.

The honest fit

Who Workzoom is for, and who it is not.

Picking the right system is as much about ruling out a wrong fit as finding a right one. Here is where Workzoom fits, and where it does not.

Built for you

Workzoom is the right call if

  • You have 50 to 5,000 employees and want HR, payroll, workforce, and talent on one employee record.

  • You operate across the Caribbean, Canada, the US, or some mix of them, and want one system instead of two.

  • You want your own team running payroll, with Workzoom specialists configuring your statutory rules and staying on after go-live.

  • You want published, predictable per-employee pricing you can model on day one.

  • You want named-client proof with real production numbers, not a logo wall.

Be honest with yourself

Workzoom is not the fit if

  • You want payroll handled for you by a bureau.

    Workzoom is the platform your own team runs: it calculates and prepares statutory output, and your team submits. If you would rather hand payroll off entirely, a managed-payroll service is the better fit, not us.

  • You are a 20,000-plus employee global enterprise needing deep multi-entity configuration and a large consultant programme.

    That is enterprise HCM territory, and we are honest about it. Workzoom is built for the 50 to 5,000 range where fit, speed, and a real relationship beat raw configuration depth.

Switching

How do you switch from Humi?

Implementation is included, with dedicated implementation support. Go-live pace is set by your data readiness and decisions, not a fixed schedule.

01
Export your Humi or Employment Hero data
Request an export of employee records, time-off balances, benefits enrolment, and document history while your account is active. Employment Hero's platform terms say the company has no obligation to store your data after termination (checked 2026-10-07). If you run payroll with a separate provider, we also load year-to-date totals from there for cleaner T4 continuity. Pay data in Workzoom starts at go-live; historical pay is not migrated.
02
Configure your pay and scheduling rules
We set up union agreements, multi-rate pay, shift premiums, anniversary-based PTO accrual, multi-department scheduling, and any complex provincial overtime rules from your documents.
03
Parallel pay run and cutover
Workzoom runs payroll in parallel with your current system for 2 to 3 pay periods. Once finance signs off on gross-to-net, statutory deductions, and net pay employee by employee, you give notice as your agreement requires. Implementation is included, and go-live pace is set by your data readiness and decisions, not a fixed schedule.

The Humi alternative, answered

Fit and pricing

Workzoom is built for 50 to 5,000 employees and runs HR, Payroll, Workforce, and Talent on one employee record at $4 per suite per month, $16 all-in. Named Canadian mid-market customers include County of Renfrew (over 900 employees), Silvera for Seniors (400 across 36 buildings), and Ktunaxa Nation Council (115). Employment Hero Canada's products page lists HR, payroll, scheduling, time and attendance, leave tracking, benefits, performance and recruiting products (checked 2026-10-10). Compare both product lists against your requirements in a walkthrough.
Reasons a team might look include wanting HR, payroll, shift scheduling, and talent on one employee record, payroll in the United States or the Bahamas alongside Canada, or a Canadian-owned vendor with Canadian hosting. Workzoom may not fit if you need payroll in a country other than Canada, the United States or the Bahamas.
Yes. Workzoom is Canadian-owned and Canadian-headquartered in Toronto, founded in 2000. Employment Hero's own announcement says it agreed to acquire Humi on 8 January 2025 and that Humi will remain Canadian-operated (checked 2026-10-10). Employment Hero Canada's FAQ says Humi now operates under the Employment Hero brand in Canada, with the Humi brand kept for Quebec, and gives the Canadian team's headquarters as Toronto and global headquarters as Sydney (checked 2026-10-10).
Compare the same scope on both quotes. Employment Hero Canada's pricing page lists Payroll at $7 per employee per month with a $70 monthly minimum, Managed Payroll at $30 per employee per month with a $500 monthly minimum, and custom-priced HR plans with a minimum of 10 users, and does not state a currency (checked 2026-10-10). Workzoom charges $4 per suite per month, $16 per employee for the full HR, Payroll, Workforce, and Talent stack, with implementation included and no initial setup fees.
Employment Hero Canada's pricing page lists Payroll at $7 per employee per month with a $70 monthly minimum, Managed Payroll at $30 per employee per month with a $500 monthly minimum, and custom-priced HR plans with a minimum of 10 users, and does not state a currency (checked 2026-10-10). Workzoom is $4 per employee per month per suite, or $16 for HR, Payroll, Workforce, and Talent together, with implementation, migration, training, and support included.

Migration

Implementation for these migrations is covered in your subscription, and how long it takes depends on data readiness and how quickly your team can meet and decide. We load employee records, time-off balances, and document history from your export, and load year-to-date totals from a separate payroll provider if you have one. Pay data in Workzoom starts at go-live; historical pay is not migrated. Workzoom runs payroll in parallel for 2 to 3 pay periods before cutover, so finance signs off on gross-to-net and statutory deductions employee by employee before you give notice.

Capabilities

Employment Hero Canada's site lists employee scheduling and time and attendance products, and does not state whether they apply to the legacy Humi by Employment Hero product (checked 2026-10-10). Confirm it in writing for your plan. Workzoom includes shift scheduling in the Workforce suite with union awareness, multi-department management, anniversary-based PTO accrual, and direct payroll integration on the same employee record. Silvera for Seniors runs scheduling for 400 staff across 36 buildings on Workzoom.
Yes. Workzoom includes benefits administration on the same employee record as HR, payroll, scheduling, and talent. For employers with multiple carriers, union benefit plans, or complex eligibility rules, the benefits module runs on the same record as payroll deductions, so multi-carrier and union eligibility reconcile in one place.
Yes. Workzoom processes union collective agreements, multi-rate pay structures, anniversary-based PTO accrual, shift premiums, double-time on unscheduled days, and overtime banking natively in the payroll engine. Canadian municipalities with complex collective agreements run on Workzoom, including County of Renfrew, City of North Battleford, MD of Bonnyville, and Township of Malahide.

Deep dive

Workzoom vs Humi, the Humi alternative.

01

Humi, Employment Hero and the acquisition

Employment Hero's own announcement says it agreed to acquire Humi on 8 January 2025 and that Humi will remain Canadian-operated (checked 2026-10-10). Employment Hero Canada's FAQ says Humi now operates under the Employment Hero brand in Canada, with the Humi brand kept for Quebec, and gives the Canadian team's headquarters as Toronto and global headquarters as Sydney (checked 2026-10-10). Employment Hero Canada's FAQ says existing Humi contracts are honoured until renewal (checked 2026-10-10).

Workzoom is Canadian-owned and Canadian-headquartered, founded in Toronto in 2000, with 26 years of continuous Canadian payroll history.

02

Where the products differ

Employment Hero Canada's products page lists HR, payroll, scheduling, time and attendance, leave tracking, benefits, performance and recruiting products (checked 2026-10-10). Ask Employment Hero in writing which of them apply to your account.

Workzoom is built for 50 to 5,000 employees. Named Canadian mid-market customers running on Workzoom include County of Renfrew (over 900 employees, Ontario municipal), Silvera for Seniors (400 employees across 36 buildings in Calgary), Ktunaxa Nation Council (115 employees, indigenous government in BC), Northern Sunrise County (140 employees, Alberta municipal), and DCAG (multi-dealership Ontario automotive).

03

One record across the full suite

Workzoom carries HR, payroll, shift scheduling, biometric time, performance, learning, and succession on one employee record: all of them read and write the same row. The pieces a growing organization tends to add separately, scheduling, talent, and multi-site time, are native here rather than bolted on.

Because it is one record rather than integrated tools, a change to an employee's pay rate, shift, or benefits eligibility reflects everywhere at once, with no re-keying between systems.

04

Pricing transparency and implementation

Employment Hero Canada's pricing page lists Payroll at $7 per employee per month with a $70 monthly minimum, Managed Payroll at $30 per employee per month with a $500 monthly minimum, and custom-priced HR plans with a minimum of 10 users, and does not state a currency (checked 2026-10-10). Employment Hero Canada's pricing page does not mention implementation fees (checked 2026-10-10).

Workzoom's $4 per suite per month is the published unit cost. All four suites together come to $16 per employee per month, with implementation, configuration, parallel pay validation, and post-go-live support included at no extra cost. Greg Belmore at County of Renfrew described the implementation experience on G2: 'A qualitative ROI was achieved within a week of beginning implementation.'

05

Multi-country payroll and the Caribbean expansion question

Employment Hero Canada's payroll page describes Canadian payroll and does not describe US or Caribbean payroll (checked 2026-10-10). If you are expanding into the US or opening a Caribbean branch, ask what the second country would need.

Workzoom runs live payroll in Canada, the United States, and the Bahamas in one system. The Bahamas engine runs NIB live, and the same engine runs Canadian CPP, EI, and provincial tax. Full payroll for Jamaica (NIS plus NHT plus Education Tax plus HEART), Trinidad and Tobago (NIS plus Health Surcharge) and Barbados is on our roadmap, and we are scoping it now with launch partners.

06

When Humi or Employment Hero may still fit

Employment Hero may still fit if your team is working well on the platform, if your terms or pricing are favourable, or if your employees are in other countries. Employment Hero's region selector includes Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia and Canada (checked 2026-10-10). Workzoom may not fit if you need payroll in a country other than Canada, the United States or the Bahamas, or if your payroll is small enough that Workzoom's monthly minimum outweighs its per-employee rate.

If you want one platform across HR, Payroll, Workforce, and Talent on one employee record, with union pay rules, multi-rate pay, and shift premiums handled in the payroll engine, a walkthrough against your current setup will show where the differences are.

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