1. Softr

G2 rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (346 reviews)

Capterra rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (60 reviews)

Softr is an easy-to-use employee portal builder for small to mid-sized businesses and agencies. You can quickly turn data that already exists in spreadsheets or databases (like Airtable), and turn it into a fully functioning application — no coding required.

With Softr's modern blocks and customizable templates, you can build custom portals, with control over user access, permissions, layout, design, and more. This allows you to skip the cost of purchasing off-the-shelf software that doesn’t meet your needs.

Build a user-friendly portal that includes any or all of the following functionality: employee onboarding, employee directory, intranet, wiki, benefits management, and more. If you’re looking to centralize employee resources, directories, and calendars into a single app, you can customize the portal to do that, too.

2. Zendesk Workforce Management

G2 rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (24 reviews)

Capterra rating: 4. out of 5 stars (12 reviews)

Zendesk is an employee experience platform that helps businesses streamline access to important information and employee-facing support. It’s best suited for companies that want to use employee portals to reduce the volume of requests, questions, and back-and-forth communication to HR. Using Zendesk's pre-built knowledge management features, you can build a comprehensive HR knowledge base without engineering help, including multi-language support, AI-powered search, content publishing workflows, and generative AI to create new content.

With its self-service portal, you can build and customize a hub for all employee documents, training material, and request management. Set up automated workflows to accelerate responses and next steps for frequently asked questions. You can also customize Zendesk’s AI chatbots to help you identify and surface important resources when employees input various search queries.

3. Zoho People

G2 rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (326 reviews)

Capterra rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (249 reviews)

Zoho People empowers teams with self-service capabilities to manage employee profiles, update records, submit leave requests, get manager approvals, and more. The portal has a simple interface that is easy to navigate, including a cohesive view of all relevant HR activities, reminders, and internal feeds on the homepage. It gives employees a quick overview of things they need to check on, like their schedules, timesheets, and direct reports.

Manage all HR documents in a single location with the ability to manage access permissions, create validity dates, and set up workflows for sending or receiving documents. Zoho People’s digital document storage helps small businesses modernize their HR operations quickly and even leverage templates to create documents in bulk and ensure consistency with set-it-and-forget-it workflows. Other relevant features include drag-and-drop form builders to help HR teams capture employee data and workflow automation for field updates, task management, and team notifications.

4. Jive

G2 rating: 3.8 out of 5 stars (309 reviews)

Capterra rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (48 reviews)

Jive is an employee engagement platform that organizations use to centralize company announcements, notifications, content, and rewards into an employee portal. It’s a feature-rich solution that gives businesses these core capabilities—employee collaboration, communication, engagement, and reporting.

The platform is a good choice for HR teams who want to boost employee participation in company initiatives, build a stronger team culture, and align employees with company policies and values. For example, you can use Jive as an internal social network to help you broadcast critical company communications across the organization, craft personalized news streams for employees on mobile and desktop, and incentivize performance with gamification. However, these features may not be necessary for smaller teams who can make do without having robust company feeds or employee directories.

5. PeopleOne

G2 rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (5 reviews)

Capterra rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars (1 review)

PeopleOne’s employee portal software allows businesses to manage employee communication, collaboration, and knowledge management. It does not have HR administrative capabilities like payroll, expense management, and leave requests but is a good choice for HR teams who want to elevate the employee experience and enable remote work.

Employees can use PeopleOne’s self-serve portal to locate and retrieve important HR documents on both desktop and mobile. HR teams can also use the portal to distribute employee pulse surveys, polls, and shout-outs. With its knowledge management feature, you can easily build document libraries and categorize them by function so employees can find the resources they need faster. Knowledge libraries are also equipped with search capabilities and a featured document section to ensure more visibility for critical information.

6. Guru

G2 rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (1711 reviews)

Capterra rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (274 reviews)

Guru is an employee portal with robust knowledge management capabilities. This tool is especially beneficial if you’re looking to build a culture of learning and ensure that employees interact with necessary HR resources. It streamlines information from multiple communication channels, apps, and documents into a single hub for employee information. The platform’s AI search capabilities enable employees to quickly look for answers across all sources integrated into the platform — including content like videos and decks. You can create a branded and personalized homepage for every employee to highlight resources and track engagement across your organization.

Guru also has workflow automation that accelerates how you scale content knowledge creation and dissemination, including AI-recommended experts, duplicate detection, identifying trending topics and suggested answers in Slack, and templates.

7. Workvivo

G2 rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (1497 reviews)

Capterra rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (123 reviews)

Workvivo gives businesses an employee portal software centered around a digitized employee experience. From internal communication to employee recognition and knowledge sharing, the platform organizes employee operations into a single application. You can build company knowledge bases, wikis, and landing pages to organize and categorize company information. The platform allows employees to access important documents securely with access-based permissions.

Workvivo is a tool that helps businesses organize campaign-based employee engagement. It allows basic automation to help you schedule announcements, push out notifications, track content engagement, and optimize campaigns based on real-time analytics. This campaign-driven approach is especially relevant for those who want to leverage the platform’s multi-channel communication, including live streams, podcasts, and TV broadcasts.

8. Simpplr

G2 rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (338 reviews)

Capterra rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (112 reviews)

Simpplr is another employee portal software centered around the employee experience, this time with AI-powered capabilities embedded into the content creation and management process. Simpplr’s digital hub gives employees easy access to company announcements, calendars, feedback collection, and peer recognition. You can use the portal to highlight important news into a personalized feed that employees can organize by content type, popularity, or personal interest.

With Simpplr’s AI Assistant, businesses can simplify how employees search for relevant information across different communication channels and HR platforms. This feature is connected to all integrated systems so employees can ask their virtual assistant to look for specific resources or start an automated HR workflow. The platform also has a writing assistant to expedite the creation of blogs, newsletters, and company-wide emails. Simpplr does not have an out-of-the-box knowledge and content management solution, so you would have to use integrations with external tools to surface HR resources in your portal.

9. Blink

G2 rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (232 reviews)

Capterra rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (114 reviews)

Blink is an employee portal software that enables seamless communication between employees and management, executives, and internal stakeholders. Designed to look like a social media chat experience, you can use Blink to stay aligned with company-wide initiatives using a social feed, private messaging, and group chats.

The Blink Hub is a central location that houses documents, links, forms, and surveys that can be added with a drag-and-drop builder. The Hub has built-in capabilities like digitized paystubs, incident reporting, and password management. Organizations can develop micro-apps to complete their HR workflows and add more employee capabilities to their Blink Hub. Developers with HTML, Javascript, or CSS knowledge can build and deploy a Micro-App.

10. Staffbase

G2 rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (217 reviews)

Capterra rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (77 reviews)

Staffbase helps businesses build employee portals that streamline communication, content management, and workflow automation. Organizations can use the Staffbase app to deliver company announcements, centralize onboarding resources, and give employees a mobile and desktop app for self-service HR services. The portal can be personalized to follow your brand’s colors, fonts, and icons but does not include drag-and-drop customizations or the capability to develop custom apps from scratch. Instead, businesses must use out-of-the-box mini apps to embed different features and services.

HR teams use the platform to build and deploy automated workflows for targeted employee groups. For instance, you can automate onboarding using Staffbase to surface specific content once an employee completes an action or reaches a milestone.