We’ve been helping HR since 1985. We’re still not done.
It started with law updates in the post to Norwegian employers. Four decades on, the job is the same: keep up with the rules, so HR doesn’t have to. Today Simployer does more of the work too.
40 yearsof Nordic HR and employment law
12,000+customers across the Nordics
1.2 millionpeople run their HR on Simployer
284colleagues in Norway, Sweden and Poland
Our history
From letters in the post to one HR platform.
The law changes. Here’s how that news has reached HR since 1985, and who had to do something about it.
Who does the workYouSimployer
Oslo, 1985Re: Changes to employment lawDear employer, employment law has changed. The enclosed summary explains what it means for you. Please update your routines accordingly.Update the binder!!
HR handbookDisk 2 of 2HR handbookDisk 1 of 2Do not bend
HR Handbook 3.1_□×Installing update…Update installed sections changed. Open each one to see what’s different.Sick leaveOpenHoliday payOpenWorking hoursOpenand 11 more
TodayHandbook updatedThe law changed. Your sick leave section already says so.Sick leavePersonnel handbookUpdatedChecked by a Simployer HR expertConfirmed
A letter arrives: the law has changed. You read it, then update your routines yourself.
In 1985, Simployer started sending Norwegian employers updates on employment law. Printed handbooks came next, then floppy disks, then software, and now one platform.
The problem underneath hasn’t changed much. The rules keep changing, the work keeps growing, and most HR teams haven’t grown with it. We still keep track of the law. Now Simployer does more of the work too.
Since 1985. Long enough to have opinions about how HR software should work.
A letter arrives: the law has changed. You read it, then update your routines yourself.A full handbook, with new pages in the post when the rules change. You swap them in by hand.The handbook fits in a drawer now. Install the new disk, then work out what changed.Updates install on their own. Finding what changed, and doing something about it, is still yours.The law changes, and your handbook already says so, checked by our HR experts. Simployer does it. You confirm.Confirmed. Simployer did the work, and you made the call.
Ownership
Built for the next decade,not the next quarter.
Ferd, a Norwegian family-owned investment company, holds the majority of Simployer. That lets us make decisions on a long horizon, which matters when 12,000 companies run their HR on what we build.
Majority ownerFerdNorwegian, family-owned investment company
The people behind Simployer
Software you can trust.People you can reach.
Choosing an HR system is a big decision. Then it’s usually HR who rolls it out and gets everyone using it. You shouldn’t have to do that alone.
You get a named customer success manager, who sets Simployer up around how your company actually works.
25,000+cases a year, handled by our HR experts
Those HR experts write and update the handbooks and templates in Simployer, and Sia, your AI HR employee, is built on their work. So when Simployer does something for you, it draws on people who do this every day. And our own HR runs on Simployer too.
Simployer does the HR you shouldn’t have to.So you can do the work you aspire to do.
HR carries more than it used to. More rules, more requests, and often the same headcount. Something has to take the extra load, and it shouldn’t always be the HR team. So Simployer takes it.
Not a faster HR system. The one that does it for you.
Most HR systems store what you did. Newer ones assist: they answer and draft. Either way, you still do the work. Simployer does it, and you stay in control.
StoresA record of the work.You still do it.
AssistsAnswers and drafts.You still do it.
SimployerDoes the work.You confirm.
Hand it to Sia.
Kasper signs his contract, and his onboarding starts on its own: laptop, accounts, day one, the probation review. Each step goes to the right person, with a reminder when it’s due. Sia answers his manager’s questions and chases what’s still open.
You approve what needs approving. You’ve just stopped chasing.
An HR expert by your side.
A dispute, a difficult exit, a sick-leave follow-up. Talk it through with a Simployer HR expert who knows local employment law and has seen cases like yours.
Sia’s answers come from the same experts’ handbooks and legal updates, not the open internet.
Your HR expertCall or write to someone who’s seen cases like yours.
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