# HR WORKS review (2026): is it worth it? > German HR, time, travel-expense and payroll prep software Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. HR WORKS is a cloud HR system for small and mid-sized German companies from HRworks GmbH. One product covers time tracking, travel and expense claims, employee records and a digital personnel file, recruiting, onboarding, personnel development and payroll preparation that hands data to a tax adviser through DATEV and ADDISON. It is billed monthly per user, with a 20-user minimum, and quoted on request. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** HRworks GmbH - **Website:** https://www.hrworks.de - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you have fewer than 20 staff, since 20 users are billed. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing HR WORKS's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Time tracking:** Employees record working time, project time and absences, with a team overview showing who is in the office or working from home. - **Travel and expense claims:** Automates travel expense reports and other expense types, including flat-rate allowance calculations. - **Personnel administration:** Digital personnel file with task reminders, employee self-service for master data, a job portal, applicant management and onboarding. - **Payroll preparation:** You do the preparatory payroll work and your tax adviser processes the rest through interfaces to DATEV and ADDISON. - **Personnel development:** A module for tracking skills and keeping employees, listed alongside the other functions. - **AI assistance:** AI-assisted entry in time tracking and expense claims, such as requesting leave by typing a sentence. ## Good for - German companies whose tax adviser works in DATEV or ADDISON - Teams that want time, travel expenses and HR records in one tool - Firms of at least 20 users that want to scale users up or down monthly ## Worth knowing - No prices are published: the pricing page asks you to request an offer. - Billing is per user per month, with at least 20 users charged and the count taken on the last day of each month, according to its FAQ. - Payroll is preparatory, not a full payroll run: the tax adviser completes it through DATEV or ADDISON. - The site is mainly in German; the /en address redirects to a German page, and a customer quote on the pricing page mentions a German and English interface. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. HR WORKS is a German HR system for time tracking, travel expenses, personnel files, recruiting and payroll preparation. It's billed per user with a 20-user minimum, prices are on request, payroll is finished by your tax adviser, and the site is mostly in German. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published, and a 20-user minimum is billed on the month-end count. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free trial can be requested through a form, but its length isn't stated and there's no free plan. - **Features: C.** Time tracking, expenses, personnel records, recruiting and development. Payroll is preparatory, handed to DATEV or ADDISON. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. A request and rollout come first, and the interface is mainly German. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with DATEV and ADDISON links. No phone or desktop app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from HR WORKS's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - HR WORKS's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 72 of the 101 other HR software we grade, and level with 12. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 34 of 101) and worst on features (C, above 1). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hr-software ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace HR WORKS you would be making payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.2 is higher than 72 of the 101 other HR software we grade. - You could make: Employee records, time off, time tracking, expense tracking and applicant tracking: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. - You could not: It plugs into other products, DATEV and ADDISON among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with DATEV, ADDISON **Tags:** Employee records, Time off, Time tracking, Expense tracking, Payroll, Applicant tracking, Public API ## Alternatives - [Personio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/personio): European HR platform for records, absences, time and recruiting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hrworks-vs-personio) - [Factorial](https://toolgpa.com/tools/factorial): HR, time, shifts, expenses and IT for small firms, quoted by module. 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