Open-source alternatives to Workday HCM

Workday HCM by Workday in the HR & people category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.

Frappe HRMS

Full HR and payroll framework on Frappe: employees, leave, recruiting and expenses.

GPL-3.0Strong copyleft

SaaS: YesClosed product: No

GitHub stars
8.9k
Deployment
Docker, Helm
Login/SSO
OAuth/OIDC, LDAP

OrangeHRM (OSS)

Long-established HR system with employee records, leave, time and recruiting.

GPL-3.0Strong copyleftnot verified

SaaS: YesClosed product: No

GitHub stars
1.1k
Deployment
Docker
Login/SSO
OIDC in 5.x

Horilla

Young Django-based HR system covering recruiting, onboarding, attendance and leave.

LGPL-2.1Weak copyleftnot verified

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes, with conditions

GitHub stars
1.4k
Deployment
Docker

Odoo Community

Modular business suite: accounting, invoicing, CRM, HR, inventory and more.

LGPL-3.0Weak copyleftOpen corenot verified

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes, with conditions

GitHub stars
54.8k
Deployment
Docker, Helm
Login/SSO
OAuth built in; SAML via OCA auth_saml

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