Linux HR Management Systems?

dgcrawford writes "A growing, 100-person company I work for is looking to integrate a Human Resources Management System into their Linux computer base. Does anyone have experience with any products that fit this need? Does it interface well with payroll, applicant tracking, maybe even finance and stock or other non-monetary compensation? I realize most of you would look at this from an IT point of view, but how did the system work across fields? And how important/useful did you find this interoperability?"

Re:We have a simillar issue..

[Anonymous Coward]

We're an ISP that's created a lot of management software in house, including our time clock system. We track hours in a MySQL database. We have a few legacy PCs with a touch screen LCD and a barcode scanner at the entrance to each of our offices. Everyone scans their bar code and enters a 4 digit PIN on the touchscreen when entering (clocking in), and scans their bar code when exiting (no PIN needed when leaving / clocking out). Add a PS/2 keyboard wedge to the barcode scanner, a standard HTML form with an input box, a little JavaScript (specifically, we set our focus to the input box when the "swipe" screen is up, and monitor the number of characters in the barcode input box, waiting for a whole barcode to be scanned).

So, with all of our employee hours in a database already, it would not be hard for us to write an application to manage our payroll and export data to any application (or even a PDF) to be printed onto a real check automatically. Granted, I would probably wait 20 or 30 checks working on the alignment when creating the PDF, but the up front cost savings would be large. But, there are some things that are better left to outside companies. Payroll is one of these things, as there is a bit more to it then (hours*wage-(wage*tax rate)).. Payroll can be a time consuming and involved process.Let a company handle it for you. They will take out taxes, allow you to offer direct deposit, and will be your agent for dealing with the state in regards to taxes, unemployment, and workman's compensation insurance. Also, when an employee files for unemployment (or, better yet, gets fired, moves away, and files in a different state where you haven't even established an account before), they will be your liaison with the state in regards to all unemployment proceedings. The service we use (Paychex) will even go to court for you for matters of unemployment and workman's comp.

All the big ones

[afabbro]

Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP, etc. all run on Linux...

...unless you're using the word "Linux" to mean "no cost".