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People and workPeople (HR and payroll)

HR, time, leave and India payroll with statutory returns, in one app for employees, managers and HR.

People covers the employee lifecycle from hiring to exit: core HR, attendance, leave, payroll, performance, learning and expenses. Payroll is built for India, with PF, ESI, professional tax, LWF and TDS calculated each month and the returns prepared from finalised payslips. Employees and managers use the same app on the web and on mobile.

People home for an HR administrator: headcount, joiners and exits, attendance check-in, leave balances and the latest payslip.People home for an HR administrator: headcount, joiners and exits, attendance check-in, leave balances and the latest payslip.

Key capabilities

  • India payroll with PF, ESI, PT, LWF and TDS
  • Form 16, Form 24Q pack, ECR and ESIC files
  • Attendance with geo-fencing, shifts and swaps
  • Leave policies, accruals, comp-off and encashment
  • Recruiting, onboarding, exits and full and final
  • Self-service and approvals on web and mobile
What it does

People in detail

Core HR and organisation

One employee record with job history, positions and an org chart. HR partners can be limited to the locations or legal entities they look after.

  • Employee master, job architecture, grades and org chart
  • Position management with vacancy control and headcount plans
  • What-if reorganisation scenarios with spans, layers and cost
  • Contingent workers with vendors, contracts and end-date alerts
  • HR letters from templates with merge fields
  • Audit trail of every change to employee data

Time, attendance and leave

Attendance from web, mobile and biometric devices, rostered against shifts, with leave policies that accrue and lapse on their own.

  • Web, mobile and biometric clock-in, with CSV import
  • Geo-fenced mobile attendance that flags or rejects punches
  • Shifts, weekly-off patterns, rosters and shift swaps
  • Overtime, regularisation and project timesheets
  • Leave accrual, carry-forward, comp-off and holiday calendars
  • Leave encashment, annual and at full and final

Payroll

A payroll run moves from pre-checks to lock, approval and payslips. Effective-dated changes flow back as arrears, and every run posts to Books when Books is on.

  • CTC-based salary structures, FBP and reimbursements
  • Off-cycle, bonus and arrears runs; loans and salary advances
  • Password-protected payslips
  • Bank transfer files for HDFC, ICICI, SBI and generic NEFT
  • Full and final settlement with gratuity and leave encashment
  • Journal posting to Books by cost centre

Hiring, onboarding and exits

Requisitions to offers, joining tasks, life and career journeys, and a structured exit.

  • Applicant tracking, career site and employee referrals
  • Offers with approvals and e-signature through Documents
  • Onboarding checklists and employee journeys for life events
  • Resignation workflow, exit interviews and clearance
  • Alumni records after exit

Performance, pay and growth

Goals, reviews and talent decisions, with compensation cycles that use the same employee data.

  • Goals and OKRs, 360 reviews, 1:1s and continuous feedback
  • Calibration with a 9-box grid and improvement plans
  • Merit and bonus cycles, equity grants and total rewards statements
  • Skills catalogue, succession planning, career paths and internal gigs
  • Courses, assignments and certifications with expiry tracking
  • Benefits administration and life events

Expenses, helpdesk and insight

Day-to-day employee requests and the reports HR uses to run the workforce.

  • Expense claims with policy limits, travel requests and advances
  • Expense lines charged to projects in Projects
  • HR helpdesk with SLAs, escalation and a knowledge base
  • Pulse and eNPS surveys with an anonymity threshold
  • Standard dashboards, custom reports and scheduled reports
  • Rules-based attrition risk with reasons per person
Built for India

Indian rules, built in

Statutory payroll is available for India today through the India country pack, for FY 2026-27. Rates live in versioned tables, so a payroll admin can add a new rate from a date without changing earlier payslips. Other countries are planned.

How Thoshika handles Indian compliance

  • PF (EPF, EPS, EDLI, VPF) with the ECR file for the EPFO portal
  • ESI with contribution periods, the monthly file and the half-yearly return
  • Professional tax and LWF by state, with state return forms and due days
  • TDS under the old and new regimes, Form 12BB declarations and proofs
  • Form 16 Part A and Part B, TDS challans and a Form 24Q return pack
  • Gratuity, statutory bonus register, NPS file, minimum wage and Labour Codes checks
Who uses it

Roles in People

Every person signs in once. Roles decide what they see, and can be limited to a location, branch or other scope where the app supports it.

HR admin

Sets up the organisation, policies and workflows, and manages employee records.

HR partner

Handles employees for the locations or legal entities in their scope.

Payroll admin

Runs payroll, verifies declarations and prepares statutory files and returns.

Manager

Approves leave, attendance, expenses and timesheets, and runs reviews for the team.

Employee

Marks attendance, applies for leave, submits claims and declarations, and downloads payslips.

Works with

Connected to the rest of Thoshika

Apps share one directory, one sign-in and the same records, so nothing is keyed in twice.

On the roadmap

Planned work, not available today. Timing is not committed.

  • Selfie and face-match attendance
  • Live GPS tracking for field staff
  • Mentoring programmes
  • SCORM and xAPI course player
  • Candidate portal before an account exists
  • Payroll country packs beyond India (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore)

See People with your own processes

People is available on its own or as part of Thoshika One, with every app for every employee.