Silky People
The moment an offer is accepted, the employee record is already there. Records, leave, documents, the org chart, onboarding. The whole team looked after, without the busywork.
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The moment an offer is accepted the employee record is already there. Every employee gets a portal from day one. They update their own details, see their manager and team, check their leave, and book time off. The records stay current because the people keep them current.
Self-service, from day one.
Reporting lines build the org chart for you. Tree view, diagram view, colour-coded teams. Share it with a single link when someone needs the lay of the land.
Built live from reporting lines.
Leave requests flow to the right approver, balances update themselves, and the team calendar shows the next four weeks. No double-booked weeks, no over-drawn balances, no spreadsheet.
Approve in one tap. Balances handle themselves.
Silky Hire and Silky People are the same system. The person you hired this morning has an employee record this afternoon. One login, one source of truth, the whole working life.
The full list. All of it works out of the box.
Employee directory
Full-width sortable list of everyone, with a click-through detail panel.
Auto-created records
An employee record is created the moment an offer is accepted.
Manual add and rehire
Add people who never went through hiring; rehire reuses the same record.
Employee photos
Per-person avatars across the directory, org chart, and self-service.
Status lifecycle
Provisioned to active (auto on start date) to former, with colour-coded badges.
CSV bulk import
Upload a spreadsheet of employees with validation and duplicate detection.
PII isolation
Date of birth, home address, and emergency contacts walled off to self and HR only.
Compensation walls
Salary and bank details sit in a separate table, hidden unless explicitly granted.
Role-based grants
Additive HR-admin grant; manager access derived live from reporting lines.
Org chart
Tree and visual diagram views, built live from reporting lines.
Public org chart sharing
One click gives you a shareable link.
Teams
Assign employees to colour-coded teams.
Leave types and policies
Entitlement, accrual method, carryover cap, minimum unit, and a per-company leave year.
Country defaults
Pre-seeded calendars and public holidays for AU, GB, NZ, US, and CA.
Request and approval flow
Request, manager or HR approve or decline with a reason, email notifications.
Accrual engine
Ledger-based balances, fixed or accrued, with automatic carryover.
Balances view
Current year, next-year projection, pending, and used-to-date.
Who's out
The next 4 weeks, or any window, as a list or calendar grid.
Team calendar
A visual 4-week timeline of absences.
Overlap and balance guards
Blocks double-booking and over-drawing leave.
Employee portal
A single self-service home for non-recruiting staff.
Self-edit details
Employees update their own contact and personal info.
My team
See your manager and your direct reports.
My leave
Check your balance and request time off.
Employee invitations
One-tap invite to the portal, token-based accept.
Onboarding checklist
A 7-task checklist auto-created on hire, split across HR, IT, manager, and employee.
Offboarding checklist
A 5-task exit checklist created on departure.
Editable templates
Customise the checklist tasks per company.
Document storage
Private per-employee files, signed URLs, categorised.
Expiry tracking
Alerts for visas and certs expiring within 30 days.
E-signature
Request and capture signatures on documents in-app.
Policies and handbook
Markdown policies plus an AI-generated handbook from a short setup interview.
Acknowledgements
Employees read and confirm policies; tracked, and re-triggered on republish.
Founder reports
Headcount, 12-month turnover, leave liability, and total people cost.
People radar
Live alerts for pending leave, expiring docs, unacknowledged policies, and upcoming starters.
Ask Silky
Natural-language leave requests, approvals, "who's out", and balance lookups.
Slack and V1 API
The same actions over Slack and a public API. Comp is never exposed.
