HR foundation Employee file Contracts Org chart Compliance

The HR foundation: one record per employee, and everything else follows from it

Personal and professional data, contracts, health insurance, authorisations, documents. What you enter once feeds every other module.

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What the file contains

The employee record, complete and alive

It goes well beyond civil status. It holds the contract, the position in the organisation, access rights, and the history of everything that has changed.

Identity and private life

Contact details, family situation, disability recognition (RQTH), health insurance, dependants. Each item has its own access level, because not everything concerns everyone.

  • Fields customisable to your practices
  • Access managed by authorisation profile
  • Anonymisation configurable by document type

Contract and position

Contract type, amendments, working hours, applicable collective agreement, reporting line. The employee's status updates on its own on the scheduled dates.

  • Collective agreements imported from Excel
  • Status and position updated automatically
  • Org chart rebuilt with every change

Workforce indicators

Headcount, age pyramid, breakdown by contract or by site. Because data is entered only once, your indicators no longer depend on an export reworked by hand.

  • Indicators built with the reporting tool
  • Staff photo board and company directory
  • Exports to Excel for your analyses
The principle

Enter once, use everywhere

That is what sets an HRIS apart from a shared spreadsheet.

For HR

  • No more double entry between tools
  • Data corrected once is corrected for everyone
  • Documents are filed automatically in the employee file

For managers

  • The team and its useful information, without asking
  • Absences and skills in the same place
  • An up-to-date view of the organisation

For employees

  • Their personal space, available at any time
  • Their documents viewable without having to ask
  • Contact details updated on their own

And what about payroll?

Nicoka HRIS does not calculate payroll. It prepares and transmits: variable items, absences, starters and leavers go to your payroll software through predefined interfaces. Your payroll specialist keeps their job, and you stop re-entering data.

What everyone gains

The employee, the manager, the HR team

The employee

Their documents filed automatically in their file

The manager

A staff photo board and a company directory

The HR team

Data corrected once is corrected for everyone, no more double entry

Frequently asked questions

More about the HRIS foundation

Can we add our own fields to the employee record?
Yes. You create the fields you need and choose who can see them and who can edit them. Configuration requires no custom development.
How are collective agreements handled?
Agreements are linked to the employee and imported in bulk from an Excel file. The associated rules, notably on leave, then apply automatically.
Does the org chart update itself?
Yes. It is rebuilt from current reporting lines and positions, including when a contract changes or an employee leaves the company.
Who has access to what?
Everything is managed by authorisation profile, screen by screen and field by field. A manager does not see the same information as an HR officer, and employees only see their own.

The HR foundation, or why everything starts with the employee record

In most organisations, HR information exists in several copies: a headcount spreadsheet, a shared folder for contracts, a mailbox for supporting documents, and the memory of the person who has run HR for ten years. Each of these copies ages at its own pace. The HR foundation of an HRIS means keeping just one, and making sure every other module draws from it.

Data entered once, used everywhere

The value of an employee file does not lie in the number of fields it contains, but in the number of processes it triggers. A start date feeds the leave calculation. Part-time work changes pro rata accrual. A collective agreement applies its own rules. A reporting line determines who approves what. If this information lives in four different tools, someone spends their time copying it, and every copy is a chance to make a mistake.

With Nicoka HRIS, the file holds identity, contract, position in the organisation and access rights. The leave and absences, time and activities, reviews and training modules read from this same source. Correcting a piece of information corrects it for everyone.

Configuration rather than development

No two companies follow exactly the same rules. Collective agreements differ, internal practices too, and an HRIS that imposes its own model ends up being bypassed with parallel files. That is why employee record fields are created, named and restricted according to your practices, with no custom development.

Collective agreements are imported in bulk from an Excel file, which avoids line-by-line entry at go-live. Employee status and position update automatically on the scheduled dates, and the org chart is rebuilt from current reporting lines.

The right visibility, not total transparency

HR data is among the most sensitive in any company. A manager has no need to see the family situation of their team, a payroll officer does not need review reports, and employees should only see their own file. Authorisation profiles are set screen by screen and field by field.

Anonymisation is configured by document type, which reconciles two obligations that seem contradictory: keeping what must be proven, erasing what must be erased. Data remains hosted in France, on servers backed up daily. See also our security page.

Key takeaways

  • The HR foundation is not a directory, it is the source that feeds every other module.
  • Data corrected once is corrected everywhere, which removes double entry and its discrepancies.
  • Fields, collective agreements and org chart are configured with no custom development.
  • Access is set by profile, screen by screen, and anonymisation by document type.
  • Payroll is not calculated in Nicoka: the data goes to your payroll software.

Nicoka HRIS is a solution developed and hosted in France, with teams in Angers and Paris, serving more than 250 customers in 30 countries, with 6,800 employees managed. To go further: employee data, HR documents, all features.

See your employee file in Nicoka HRIS

Our teams take your fields, your agreements and your organisation, then show you what a truly up-to-date employee record looks like.

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