An HR system designed for the way UAE businesses actually operate.
One platform, scaled from two employees to two thousand. Onboarding, leave, payroll, Emiratisation, performance and documents, built on UAE labour law from the first line of code. Conceived by an HR leader who has run the function at Amazon, Noon and Landmark.
Every UAE business deserves disciplined, well-built HR. Not in five years. Today.
The HR systems built for the world treat the UAE as a settings panel. Visa, gratuity, WPS, Emiratisation. They are afterthoughts in their roadmap. We build the opposite. The UAE labour code is in the code. It is the first line, not the last. And the price is not gated behind enterprise procurement. A two-person business runs Zaitoon HR the same way a two-thousand-person business does.
Zaitoon is Arabic for olive. The tree of patience, longevity, and peace.
Eight modules.
One platform.
Each module ships independently. Together they form the system of record your HR team has been waiting for.
- I
Employee records
A single profile for every employee. Documents, visa, contracts, history. The single source of truth your shared drive never became.
- II
Onboarding
Structured checklists from offer-signed to first productive week. Nothing dropped.
- III
Leave and attendance
Self-service requests with auto-calculated balances. UAE public holidays baked in. No year-end spreadsheet.
- IV
Payroll
Basic, allowances, gratuity accrual, WPS export. The same disciplined workflow for twenty payslips or two thousand.
- V
Emiratisation
Quota, headcount, gap, deadline. The dashboard global HRMS platforms refuse to build for the Gulf market.
- VI
Performance
Configurable review cycles, KPI frameworks, calibration tools. Performance management that does not collapse under itself.
- VII
Documents and policies
MOHRE-aligned contracts and policies, pre-filled from employee data, versioned and audit-ready.
- VIII
Reports
Headcount, turnover, leave, payroll cost. Available in real time. Not at month-end. Not in a slide deck.
Three windows into the working product.
The directory
The payroll
The Emiratisation tracker
Kamran Khan,
SPHRi.
Strategic HR leader. Thirteen years building and transforming HR functions at Amazon, Noon, Landmark Group, Acko and Coal India. Currently Acting Head of HR at Life Pharmacy.
Zaitoon HR is the system he wishes he had at every previous company.
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Built where it is needed. Priced for the size you actually are.
Founding-member pricing stays with you, even after public launch.