Palm Hr

palm.hr is a cloud-based, mobile-first human resources management platform aimed at companies in Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East, from startups to enterprises. The product consolidates core people operations in one system: employee data, documents and asset records; onboarding and offboarding; time tracking via mobile check-in/check-out, timesheet approval and shift scheduling; leave management; performance, recruitment and training modules; employee self-service; and reporting dashboards (0, 1, 3, 4).

Payroll is a central function, with approval workflows, expense and loan automation, and support for payroll across multiple countries, companies and currencies, including a multi-currency capability for regionally headquartered businesses with international operations. Compliance is positioned around local labour law and government systems: the platform advertises WPS compliance, Emirates ID and GPSSA support for the UAE, and integrations with Saudi government services including Mudad for digital payroll, the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) and Muqeem for foreign employee data (0, 1, 4). Alongside the software, the company offers an outsourced HR service staffed by certified HR professionals covering payroll, compliance, onboarding and government integrations, as well as advisory services to clients (0, 4). An integrations marketplace connects palm.hr to third-party applications (0).

Founding story

palm.hr was co-founded in 2019 by Richard Schrems, Christoph Czichna and Dragan Nikolic, with the stated aim of providing intuitive people-management technology to organisations of all sizes in the MENA region rather than only to large corporations and enterprises (4).

Business model

palm.hr sells subscription HR management software to businesses, complemented by a paid outsourced HR service positioned as a lower-cost alternative to full-time in-house HR staff, and advisory services provided to clients as required (0, 4). The vendor supports customers through email, phone, live support, ticketing and training (3).

Software-as-a-service for the HR platform, with additional revenue from outsourced HR and advisory services; pricing is not published on the sources reviewed (0, 3, 4).

Traction

The website states that hundreds of businesses use palm.hr and names customers including Pemo, Wafeq, Chimera, Sanimed and Atlas Medical (0). A published case study describes Pemo moving from spreadsheets to palm.hr for payroll, leave management and centralised employee data (5).

Latest developments

In October 2025 palm.hr announced a strategic partnership with Wafeq, an accounting and e-invoicing platform, to link HR, payroll and accounting workflows for businesses in the Middle East (5). Earlier content includes guidance on the August 2024 Saudi Labor Law amendments effective February 2025 and on HRDF Taqat and Tamheer hiring subsidies (5).