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Welcome to the NZRT Wiki Podcast. Today we’re looking at Human Resources Management.

If you work with the NZRT systems, Human Resources Management is the part of the platform that covers the full employee lifecycle. That means everything from bringing someone on board right through to tracking their time, managing their leave, and handling their expenses. Think of it as your central hub for everything people-related.

Let’s walk through what’s actually inside this module, because there are five distinct sub-modules that each handle a different part of the HR picture.

The first is Employee and Staff Management. This is your foundation. It’s where you keep records on each person in the organisation — their details, their role, their employment information. Before anything else in HR can work properly, you need your employee records set up here. If you’re onboarding someone new, this is where you start.

Next up is Employee Leave Management. This is exactly what it sounds like — it’s the module that handles requests for time off, whether that’s annual leave, sick leave, or any other type your organisation recognises. You can track who has requested leave, what’s been approved, and how much entitlement each employee has available. If you’re a manager reviewing leave requests, this is your go-to area. And if you’re an employee wanting to check your remaining leave balance, this is where you’d look too.

The third sub-module is Expense Reports. This one is particularly useful for anyone in the team who spends money on behalf of the company — whether that’s travel, supplies, client entertainment, or anything else that needs to be reimbursed. You submit your expenses here, attach your receipts, and the report flows through for approval. It connects directly with the Finance side of the platform, so once an expense report is approved, the reimbursement process can move forward without you having to chase anyone down separately.

Fourth is Recruitment Management. If you’re hiring, this module gives you a place to manage that process from within the same system you use for everything else. You can track candidates, manage job openings, and move applicants through the stages of your recruitment pipeline. It keeps everything in one place so that when someone is hired, transitioning them into the Employee and Staff Management module is a natural next step.

And the fifth sub-module is Timesheets. This one is about tracking time — specifically, who worked on what and for how long. What makes this particularly powerful in the NZRT setup is that timesheets connect directly to the Projects module. So if your team is logging hours against specific tasks in a project, that time data flows through from timesheets into the project records. It means your project reporting stays accurate, and you have a clear picture of where time is actually being spent across the organisation.

Now, a quick note on how HR connects to the rest of the platform. You’ve already heard that timesheets link to Projects — that’s a key one, especially if your organisation bills clients by time or tracks project budgets carefully. The other major connection is between Expense Reports and Finance. When someone submits an expense report and it gets approved, that feeds into the Finance module so that reimbursements can be processed through the normal financial workflow. You don’t need to duplicate the information anywhere — the two modules talk to each other.

So to pull it all together: Human Resources Management covers five areas. You have Employee and Staff Management for your core people records. Employee Leave Management for tracking time off. Expense Reports for reimbursements. Recruitment Management for your hiring process. And Timesheets for logging time, which ties back into your project tracking. The whole module sits at the intersection of your people processes and your financial and project workflows, which is what makes it worth understanding even if you only actively use one or two of those sub-modules day to day.

That’s it for this episode of the NZRT Wiki Podcast. Thanks for listening.