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Flare Employee Benefits Manufacturing Insights: 2026 HR Industry Benchmark Report
ELMO Software’s 2026 HR Industry Benchmark Report (HRIB) reveals that HR leaders in manufacturing are…
HR solutions for Manufacturing
HR that keeps your operations moving
Empower your workforce from the factory to the front office. ELMO helps manufacturing businesses stay safe and compliant, reduce manual admin, overcome talent gaps, and build workforce capability – so your people can focus on production, not paperwork.
Across HR leaders in manufacturing:
25
%
predict struggles with upskilling, cross-skilling, or reskilling employees
28
%
see cyberthreats and data security as a major hurdle
26
%
identify that a skills shortage will create issues
How ELMO helps manufacturing companies
Go from paperwork to productivity and power your people.
Labour shortages and productivity pressure?
Hire and onboard faster with automated workflows, AI-generated job ads and mobile pre-start forms. Get new hires site-ready sooner and close skills gaps before they hit production
Training and compliance challenges?
Stay audit-ready with automated learning. Assign, track and recertify mandatory training like first aid and high-risk licences, all in one place.
Limited workforce visibility?
Bring your people data together in one secure hub. Get real-time insights on turnover, engagement and productivity to make faster, smarter decisions.
Disconnected systems and manual admin?
Unify HR, payroll, learning and compliance in one platform. Cut double-handling, strengthen data security and give HR more time to focus on people, not paperwork.
Solutions for your unique challenges
A unified employee system of record
Explore HR CoreCentralise employee records from hire-to-retire and automate your people management.
Manage roles, licences and site-based records with full visibility and a system built for compliance and mobility.
Find and hire the right talent fast
Explore RecruitmentHire the right people, fast. Streamline approvals, advertise roles widely and build internal talent pools to reduce time to hire and improve workforce readiness.
Use gen-AI to write descriptions, automate posting to multiple job boards, centralise candidate data, and generate offer letters in one workflow.
Make first impressions count
Explore OnboardingUse gen-AI to write descriptions, automate posting to multiple job boards, centralise candidate data, and generate offer letters in one workflow.
Find your payroll fit
Explore PayrollTake control of payroll complexity. Handle shift penalties, overtime and award compliance without duplication, all from one integrated system.
LMS that builds capability
Explore LearningSupport the safety and upskilling of your people. Assign required training automatically, track completions and maintain certification records without chasing paper.
Performance that powers results
Explore Performance ManagementAlign individual objectives to business outcomes, identify top performers, and drive accountability across your manufacturing workforce.
Don’t just take our word for it
“ELMO has significantly contributed to building a stronger safety culture by providing readily available training records for investigations, enabling quick reporting to confirm employee acknowledgment and course completion.”
Emma Cross
Good Drinks
“Before we decided to implement ELMO, everything that we did was a manual process. Nothing was streamlined and nothing was achieved ‘at the click of a button’. It all involved heavy admin and there was a lot of back and forth with documentation and waiting for approval”
Ellie Hutton
Neumann Steel
“ELMO has streamlined the whole process. We have implemented onboarding workflows which are incredibly efficient. We simply assign a workflow and ELMO does the rest: allocating documents, learning modules and performance appraisals whilst sending emails and assigning tasks…it’s been a huge timesaver.”
Tegan Vincent
Viatek
