# HR & People

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/hr-and-people/  
**APIs profiled:** 27

API and integration profile for the HR and people-operations landscape. This topic repo catalogs the API surface of HRIS systems, unified HR APIs, payroll providers, talent acquisition platforms, performance and engagement tools, and people-data services. The focus is a portable Employee record schema (JSON Schema), schema.org/Person aligned semantics (JSON-LD), and a shared vocabulary for the people-operations domain.

## Kin Score — 15.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 15.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 16.9 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 7.9 |
| Access Clarity | 7.9 |

## Agent readiness — 1.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (27)

- **Workday** — Workday is a cloud HCM, payroll, and finance suite with a Web Services / REST API catalog spanning Human Capital Management, Payroll, Recruiting, Talent, and Time Tracking.
- **BambooHR** — BambooHR is a cloud HRIS for small and mid-size companies with a REST API for employee records, time off, reports, and webhooks.
- **Rippling** — Rippling is a workforce platform unifying HR, IT, and Finance with a public REST API covering employees, payroll, devices, and apps.
- **Gusto** — Gusto is a payroll, benefits, and HR platform for small business with a partner REST API for embedded payroll and HR.
- **Justworks** — Justworks is a PEO platform providing payroll, benefits, and compliance with an HRIS API for partners and integrations.
- **Paylocity** — Paylocity is a cloud payroll and HCM provider with a REST Web Services API for employees, payroll, benefits, time, and labor cost.
- **ADP** — ADP is the largest payroll and HCM provider with the ADP Marketplace and ADP Workforce Now / Run / Vantage APIs for HR, payroll, time, and benefits.
- **UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group)** — UKG provides UKG Pro and UKG Ready HCM, workforce management, and payroll with a REST API and integration marketplace.
- **Sage People** — Sage People is a global cloud HR system built on the Salesforce platform with a REST API for workers, employment, leave, and reviews.
- **Personio** — Personio is a European all-in-one HR software for SMBs with a REST API for employees, attendance, absences, and applicants.
- **HiBob** — HiBob is a modern HRIS with a REST API for people data, time off, lifecycle events, performance, and compensation.
- **Namely** — Namely is a mid-market HRIS with a REST API covering profiles, time off, benefits, and payroll.
- **Merge HRIS** — Merge is a unified API platform whose HRIS Unified API normalizes employee, employment, group, time-off, and payroll data across dozens of HRIS systems.
- **Finch** — Finch is a unified API for employment systems (HRIS and payroll) covering employee, company, payment, pay-statement, and directory endpoints across hundreds of providers.
- **Kombo** — Kombo is a European unified HR API normalizing employees, employments, absences, candidates, jobs, and offers across HRIS and ATS providers.
- **Greenhouse** — Greenhouse is an applicant tracking and recruiting platform with Harvest, Job Board, and Onboarding APIs for candidates, applications, jobs, and offers.
- **Lever** — Lever is a talent acquisition platform whose API covers candidates, opportunities, postings, requisitions, interviews, and offers.
- **Workable** — Workable is a recruiting platform with a REST API for jobs, candidates, activities, comments, and offers, plus a partner marketplace.
- **SmartRecruiters** — SmartRecruiters is an enterprise talent acquisition suite with a REST API for candidates, postings, applications, offers, and onboarding.
- **Ashby** — Ashby is an all-in-one talent platform with a REST API for candidates, applications, interviews, offers, jobs, and feedback.
- **Lattice** — Lattice is a people-management platform covering performance, engagement, goals, growth, and compensation with a partner API.
- **Culture Amp** — Culture Amp is an employee experience platform for engagement, performance, and development with a partner API and integrations marketplace.
- **15Five** — 15Five is a continuous performance management platform covering check-ins, OKRs, reviews, and engagement, with an API for HRIS-driven user sync.
- **LinkedIn Talent Solutions** — LinkedIn Talent Solutions provides Recruiter System Connect, Job Posting, Apply-with-LinkedIn, and Talent Hub APIs for talent acquisition and people data integration.
- **HiPeople** — HiPeople is a talent assessment and reference-checking platform with an API for assessments, reference reports, and candidate insights.
- **Compa** — Compa is a real-time compensation intelligence platform for talent acquisition teams, providing offer-level pay benchmarks via API.
- **OpenComp** — OpenComp is a compensation planning platform offering pay benchmarks, pay equity, and compensation review tools, with HRIS-driven sync and an API.

## Security (2)

- **Hr And People Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Hr And People Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR

## Use cases (6)

- **HRIS Integration Mapping** — Map a customer's HRIS data into a normalized Employee record for downstream consumers (provisioning, analytics, compensation, security)
- **Talent Acquisition Pipeline** — Catalog ATS and recruiting APIs feeding candidate, application, offer, and hire data into an HRIS or data warehouse
- **People Data Warehouse** — Build a people-data warehouse keyed on the Employee schema, joining HRIS, payroll, performance, and engagement records
- **Compensation Benchmarking** — Combine HRIS employee/compensation records with compensation-intelligence APIs (Compa, OpenComp) for offer and review benchmarks
- **Joiner-Mover-Leaver Automation** — Drive identity and access lifecycle off HRIS lifecycle events (hire, transfer, termination) via webhooks or unified-API event streams
- **AI Capabilities for HR Workflows** — Provide governed AI capabilities (resume parsing, offer generation, compensation analysis, headcount planning) grounded in the Employee schema

## Tags

HR, HRIS, People Operations, Payroll, Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Employee Engagement, People Data, Workforce Management, Unified-API

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/hr-and-people/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.