At my last job we used it internally (part of the G Suite, I believe) for employee profile pages, especially since we used Hangouts and Gmail a lot to communicate.
I had a script like this at Google. Every day it would email me all the changes to the employee db. I could see who was quitting, getting hired, changing titles, etc. It was very interesting, though I eventually had to filter out the people that I didn't care about. Now I think there's a popular internal webapp that does something similar.
Huh, interesting. Our company switched from Paychex to ADP last year. In the last month or so their online portal went through a redesign and now looks fairly similar to most modern-day web content. We also have the ability to see our paystubs, request time off and sign up for health coverage all from the same portal.
Sorry, have you worked with the former employer I'm mentioning? I'm talking about a specific use case that has specific needs and challenges. Blanket comments like yours aren't really helpful or necessary.
I worked at a company that had an internal website that showed all people, departments, teams, and had a filter you could use for new employees or employees that left. It was sort of a double edged sword: you had enough information to start asking questions about what it meant if a team member or coworker was on the list. What was more interesting is that it almost became ritual for some people to logon first thing in the morning and check the list, every morning.
My employer uses Trinet: http://www.trinet.com/. Essentially, we outsource all of our HR functions like payroll and health insurance to them. Though we've grown quite a bit over the last 10 years, we've used Trinet since back when we had as few as two full time employees.
I can't speak to the cost side since that's not my domain, but as an employee I think they've been pretty great. It's also a huge benefit to our company not having to hassle over HR-related management issues.
Once you are on the payroll as a contractor or FTE you are in the employee DB table and show up in the internal wiki as a current or former employee. Moxie was a consultant with the WhatsApp team to integrate the signal protocol (putting it into Messenger was done independently out of the London office without direct input from Moxie or his team IIRC) so he should show up if you do an employee search.
Even if it isn't sticky, the organization is sticky.
Take time tracking-payroll software, it's pretty simple right? Let people log in, input their time, manager reviews it, some business logic about the different kinds of leave and accrual and all that. Compared to a service like Browserstack, it seems trivial to develop and run. And maybe easier to switch for the customer, right?
But to switch you need to... decide a cutover date, make sure the new system supports all your current employee contracts, oh and payroll links to the health insurance as well, and the employee options scheme, and the pension scheme, and you need to input the org hierarchy, but people made tweaks in the old software that won't carry over... not so simple any more.
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