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Comparing HR tools honestly: what each one costs, what its free tier includes and how to move a team without a lost month of data.

October 25, 2026 · 8 min readSwitching HR software in January: the migration checklistWhy 1 January is the cleanest payroll cutover, plus a seven-step checklist to export, clean, rebuild, run December side by side and start on one system.

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