Industry Solutions
Tessera HR & Payroll for Construction
Standardize HR records, payroll workflows, and approvals for construction teams.
Key metrics
Overview
What Tessera HR & Payroll helps you achieve
Standardize HR records, payroll workflows, approvals, and compliance reporting for construction teams.
Centralized HR governance across sites.
Standardizes people operations with controlled approvals, records, and compliance workflows.
Payroll workflows for allowances and overtime.
Standardizes people operations with controlled approvals, records, and compliance workflows.
Claims and payroll changes routed through approvals.
Standardizes people operations with controlled approvals, records, and compliance workflows.
Consolidated reporting for leadership.
Standardizes people operations with controlled approvals, records, and compliance workflows.
Integrations
Challenges
Common pain points we solve
Most construction teams struggle with visibility, controls, and reporting. Tessera brings those workflows together.
Site-based payroll with travel allowances and per diem is hard to manage manually.
Tessera HR resolves this with configurable approval flows, employee records, and compliance controls.
Casual and daily labor workers create high-volume onboarding and payroll complexity.
Tessera HR resolves this with configurable approval flows, employee records, and compliance controls.
Multi-site headcount visibility is delayed and inconsistent across projects.
Tessera HR resolves this with configurable approval flows, employee records, and compliance controls.
Overtime on project deadlines is ungoverned without approval controls.
Tessera HR resolves this with configurable approval flows, employee records, and compliance controls.
Compliance for site workers — statutory deductions, safety training — is tracked manually.
Tessera HR resolves this with configurable approval flows, employee records, and compliance controls.
Workflows
Key workflows for Construction
These are the most common workflows construction organizations implement first for fast ROI.
Site payroll processing
Configured for your team structure with role-based access and compliance-ready outputs.
Allowance and claims workflows
Configured for your team structure with role-based access and compliance-ready outputs.
Onboarding/offboarding
Configured for your team structure with role-based access and compliance-ready outputs.
Leave management
Configured for your team structure with role-based access and compliance-ready outputs.
Headcount by site
Configured for your team structure with role-based access and compliance-ready outputs.
Compliance exports
Configured for your team structure with role-based access and compliance-ready outputs.
Common use cases
Capabilities
What you get with Tessera HR & Payroll
A practical feature set designed for construction teams, with controls and reporting built in.
Employee master + documents
Centralize employee profiles, statutory records, and documents with controlled access.
Workflows + approvals
Configurable forms, approval flows, and automated notifications for HR processes.
Employee self-service (ESS)
Leave requests, profile updates, and status tracking via web/mobile self-service.
Leave + assets + travel & expense
Leave accrual, encashment, assets tracking, and travel/expense workflows with reporting.
Performance + appraisals
KPI scorecards, self/supervisor assessments, and recommendations backed by history.
Recruitment + training
Requisitions, candidate pipelines, interview stages, training calendars, and evaluations.
Audit trail + BI reports
Track changes, exports, and access with report builders, pivots, and role-based outputs.
Integrations
Connect time & attendance, payroll, finance systems, and directory services where needed.
Reporting
Dashboards and insights
Get visibility that helps teams act faster: drill-down reporting, analysis views, and exportable outputs.
Common dashboards & reports
Built for teams
Secure reporting and controlled exports
Share the right view with the right people using role-based access. Export and schedule reports for finance, operations, and leadership.
Modules
Recommended Tessera modules
Start with HR & payroll, then connect time & attendance and finance workflows for controls and reporting.
Tessera HR & Payroll
People operations, payroll workflows, approvals, and compliance support.
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Reporting, controls, and financial visibility across teams.
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People operations, payroll workflows, and compliance support.
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Sales, stock updates, and branch performance visibility.
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What success looks like
Outcomes construction teams expect after implementing Tessera HR & Payroll workflows, approvals, and reporting.
Payroll runs on time, every time
Structured approval workflows and automated pay rules reduced payroll errors and compliance exceptions significantly.
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Leave management teams actually use
Replacing manual trackers with self-service workflows cut HR admin time and reduced leave disputes across branches.
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Audit-ready people records
Employee documents, approvals history, and compliance records are available on demand for audits and regulatory reviews.
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Questions we hear from Construction teams
If you want, we can walk through your exact workflows in a short demo.
Yes. Allowance rules, per diem, and travel claims can be configured per site and role.
Variable pay and casual worker records can be managed with configurable pay rules.
Yes. Dashboards and reports can be segmented by site or project.
Get started
Get a construction demo
We will map your workflows, recommend a rollout plan, and show the dashboards your team will use day-to-day.
In the demo
- Payroll workflows and approval controls
- Employee records and compliance reporting
- Implementation timeline + support plan
- Module recommendations for your team
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