Your workplace needs more WOW. Get ready for MHR's World of Work 2026
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Great people + employee experience = peak performance
Your people, enhanced by AI
People First weaves a range of innovative and intuitive AI features into its core. These tools boost human capability, giving everyone the chance to develop their skills and freeing up time to focus on key strategic tasks. We identify the areas where AI will make a real difference.
Why People First?
People First is a unified AI-enabled platform. Built from the ground up to work together seamlessly and flow. No clunky integrations. No need for employees and managers to log in to different platforms. No unnecessary distractions.
Plan your path
Having a shared vision and clear goals helps you identify the behaviours, characteristics and skills you need to get there. And that enables you to hire amazing people easily and quickly. Transform those anxieties that come with starting a new role into confidence of the impact they’re capable of.
Communicate your goals
Every now and then, we need some reassurance. And giving and receiving that should be easy, right?
From showing employees what to expect on their first day, sharing the latest company news, recognising amazing work, holding regular check-ins, giving visibility of what they earn, as they earn it, or notifications of actions required, it’s time to make communication seamless.
Grow your people
You can provide a culture of learning and growth and pathways that provide the autonomy for employees to define their career. You need visibility of the skills you have. Where there’s gaps. Where there’s opportunities to learn, to progress. To evolve.
Connect the flow
We want to make connecting with others easy.
You can help employees easily identify their network and connect the dots that keep work flowing. From connecting one-to-one, to handling stakeholders across the spectrum of work, you’ll smash every project out the park.
Simplify your ways of working with People First
“We're really excited to be moving over to the fully integrated People First payroll platform. It will save us an awful lot of time when processing payroll, through streamlining the process and minimising human error.”
“People First is essential for keeping everyone up to date with what is going on in the company. We've noticed an increase in employee engagement.”
“Implementation was seamless. I was completely shocked.”
Think you're ready for AI? Our latest white paper explains why you aren't.
FAQs
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People First and iTrent are software solutions developed by MHR that bring together HR, payroll, workforce management, recruitment, onboarding, talent management, learning and finance.
People First is a unified people platform. With AI built in, it helps simplify HR processes, improve employee experiences and give users greater ownership through self-service. People First is ideal for organisations of all sizes who want a highly intuitive system that requires minimal support.
iTrent is a well-established and highly configurable platform that can meet bespoke HR and payroll needs. It's particularly well suited to organisations with complex structures, as well as those with highly specific payroll and workforce management requirements. Enhanced with AI capabilities, iTrent continues to evolve to meet the continued needs of customers across the platform.
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Yes. Security is built into every layer of People First. The platform uses secure Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to help protect access to sensitive employee and business data.
People First is hosted on Microsoft Azure, providing enterprise-grade security, resilience and scalability. Backed by over 40 years of experience delivering trusted HR and payroll technology, MHR is committed to helping organisations protect their data and meet their security and compliance requirements.
Learn more about our security and compliance here.
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People First is for organisations of all sizes who are looking to streamline HR, payroll, workforce management, talent and learning processes in a single platform.
Our customers span a wide range of sectors, including healthcare, education, retail, manufacturing, logistics, professional services and the public sector. See our customers page to learn more.
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AI is built into People First to help people work more efficiently, make better decisions and spend less time on administrative tasks. It can help recruiters create job adverts, identify suitable candidates and prepare for interviews, while also helping managers have more productive employee check-ins through AI-generated talking points and summaries.
AI in People First can also help users uncover workforce insights through natural language queries and give employees instant answers to questions about policies, payslips and other workplace information.
Learn more about AI in People First and our vision for this here.
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People First is a modular platform, so you can tailor it to the needs of your organisation as you grow. Available modules include:
- HR (core)
- Payroll
- Workforce management
- Finance
- Recruitment
- Learning
- Analytics
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People First is designed to fit seamlessly with your existing technology and workflow. Through our extensive library of open APIs and partner ecosystem, the platform can connect with a wide range of HR, payroll, finance, learning, analytics and workforce management solutions.
Browse our partners and integrations page or get in touch with our team to discuss integrating People First with other platforms.
