Onwards HR is an Atlanta offboarding-compliance platform aimed at enterprise HR, legal, and finance teams handling layoffs, severance, WARN/mini-WARN notices, OWBPA disclosures, and state separation notices. This is HR-led software, but it clears the legaltech bar because the workflow evidence is legal-process specific rather than generic employee-experience tooling: the legal page centers a legal dashboard for employee separations; the compliance pages call out bias/discrimination checks, WARN Act workflows, and OWBPA waiver criteria; SAP partner snippets describe state separation notices and OWBPA disclosures; ISG’s analyst note says the product flags WARN risks and reduces external-counsel-heavy manual work. Public traction is decent for a niche workflow: G2 seller snippets show 5.0/5 from 12 reviews, and Onwards claims Ulta Beauty automated 30,000+ separation agreements in the first year while staying compliant across all 50 states. The main caveat is scope: this is not general HRIS or broad employment-law research software - it is a specialized separation-compliance workflow layer.
Company Info
- Founded: 2017
- Team size: 11-50 employees
- Funding: $750K
- HQ: United States
- Sector: Governance/Compliance/Risk Management
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Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, Onwards Hr is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Onwards Hr addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
Company needs to run a layoff across 20 states, but every exit has different severance terms, state separation notices, WARN or mini-WARN triggers, OWBPA disclosure rules, and bias checks - HR has spreadsheets, legal has templates, managers have ad hoc requests, and one missed notice or invalid waiver turns a cost-cutting exercise into class-action bait.
Employee separation is a cross-functional mess - HR drafts paperwork, legal rewrites it, finance recalculates severance, payroll tracks final pay, managers chase signatures, and nobody can see the full timeline or prove what the employee received and when. The process drags for weeks, creates paper piles, and turns every exit into a mini-project.
Where it fits in your workflow
Before Onwards Hr
A company plans a reduction in force, mutual separation, termination, or everyday employee exit that triggers severance calculations, legal review, and state/federal notice requirements.
After Onwards Hr
After compliant documents and notices are generated, the workflow hands off to payroll, finance, HR operations, managers, and IT for signatures, revocation periods, final pay, equipment return, and records retention.
Integrations & hand-offs
Onwards HR sits between HCM/HRIS data and the cross-functional exit process. Public evidence points to handoffs with SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, Paycor, HR, legal, finance, and compliance teams rather than outside-law-firm matter systems.
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