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It started with a question nobody could answer cleanly

Could HR and payroll software actually handle the way companies really run, rather than the way software wishes they did?

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The question

Every HR and payroll system on the market assumed a company that does not exist. One country. One currency. One entity. Everybody at a desk, on the same contract, paid the same way, under one set of rules.

The companies we were sitting with looked nothing like that. They ran several entities across several markets, paid nationals and expatriates under different schemes, had people on sites and shifts who never opened a laptop, and filed into statutory regimes that reject a file the moment it is wrong.

So they did what everyone does. They bought the software anyway, and then built the missing half in spreadsheets. The question underneath this company has always been the same one: how many spreadsheets does it take to run your payroll?

What we decided, and kept

Four decisions made early, still true. They are the reason the product looks the way it does.

One record

Or it does not count

Every function reads from the same employee record. Not an integration, not a nightly sync, not an export. The moment a record is copied, the two copies start to disagree.

  • Enter it once, and everything downstream reads from it.
  • No rekeying between hiring, HR and payroll.
  • Compliance is a query rather than a reconstruction.

Local depth

Built in, not bolted on

WPS, Mudad, GOSI, Qiwa, gratuity and end of service are in the engine. A system that treats the Gulf as a configuration option will fail in the Gulf.

  • Statutory rules per market, maintained by us.
  • Filing formats that change when the regulator changes them.
  • Regional mastery as proof of depth, not as the limit of our reach.

A person decides

Always

The system drafts, flags, calculates and checks. It does not commit. Nothing irreversible happens without someone authorising it, and that holds for the AI too.

  • Payroll is never disbursed automatically.
  • Approval chains are yours, and are never bypassed.
  • Every action attributed, timestamped and auditable.

Built with customers

Not for them

The product changed because customers told us where it hurt, not because a roadmap said so. Most of what is in it now started as somebody's monthly workaround.

  • Configuration where others hard code.
  • Features that came from a real payroll run going wrong.
  • The same team through implementation and after it.

Where that got us

Payroll running in 36 countries, for companies including British American Tobacco, Sanofi, Engie, Marsh McLennan, Michelin, Intertek, Ramboll and Grundfos.

SOC 2 verified through annual independent audits, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and employee data held to GDPR standards on Microsoft Azure in data centres inside the European Union.

All of it running from Dubai Internet City, on one employee record, across recruiting, core HR, self service, time, payroll, performance, learning and planning.

  • SOC 2

    Verified through annual independent audits.

  • ISO 27001

    Information security management.

  • ISO 27701

    Privacy information management.

  • GDPR

    Employee data handled to GDPR standards.

  • 99.9%

    Uptime on Microsoft Azure, monitored 24/7.

Where to next

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Tell us your markets, headcount and payroll calendar. We will show you the product running against them.

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How Wolke is packaged, from Core HR through to Payroll Outsourcing.

Security & Compliance 

Where your data sits, who can reach it, and the certifications your IT team will ask for.

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What the demo covers

  • Your markets, your entities and your pay calendar, rather than a generic walkthrough.
  • The parts of the platform you actually asked about.
  • Time for your questions, with someone who knows HR and payroll in your markets.

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