Human Resources Management in F&B

HR Management Solution for F&B Groups in Hong Kong — Centralised rostering, attendance and payroll compliance across all outlets, fully aligned with Hong Kong's 468 continuous contract requirements.

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Why F&B needs digital transformation?

The F&B industry runs on hourly workers making shift rostering, attendance tracking, and payroll calculation an admin burden on HR. Workstem’s cloud HR system lets employers and HR managers monitor staff across all branches in real time, automatically tracking ADW, holiday pay, and overtime allowances to keep your business compliant. The system also checks each employee's weekly hours against Hong Kong's "468/418" continuous contract requirements, and accurately calculates statutory entitlements like paid annual leave and sickness allowance to reduce compliance risk.

HR challenges for F&B

Rostering chaos across locations

Managing shift schedules across 30+ outlets with no real-time visibility into staffing gaps or overtime costs. Labour resources are siloed and impossible to coordinate centrally.

Inefficient approval process

During F&B peak seasons, employees working overtime by using traditional paper applications would lack efficiency, result in high administrative costs and unnecessary errors in their payroll.

468 compliance exposure for part-time staff

Under the 2026 468 rule, part-time employees who accumulate 68 hours over 4 consecutive weeks qualify for continuous contract entitlements. Manually tracking hundreds of part-timers each month is error-prone and audit-risky.

No group-wide workforce cost visibility

Payroll is processed separately at each outlet, leaving HQ without a consolidated, real-time view of total labour costs — making accurate financial forecasting near impossible.

Workstem solves your challenges easily

Our one-stop solution offers rostering, attendance, leave and payroll and is fully in compliance with Hong Kong’s labour law including ADW, 713, and the Ordinance 468/418 continuous contract rule.

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Powerful AI rostering system

Our system offers different time shift template shift templates, allows bulk rostering according to shift, employees and location. The mobile App provide employees to swap shifts, while front line managers can arrange their timetable and manpower with flexibility.

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Efficient approval systems with our mobile App

Employees and supervisors alike can apply and approve for overtime, leave and reimbursement applications through our mobile App. Our App automatically calculates the data with accuracy and efficiency.

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Automatic Time Tracking of 468/418 Compliance at a Glance

Accurately gathers employee attendance data including overtime, leave, and absences and generates detailed reports, making it easy to determine whether each employee qualifies under the Ordinance 468/418 and is entitled to the statutory benefits.

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Unlimited and accurate pay runs

Our system supports unlimited pay runs within a month, seamlessly handles every hourly, weekly or monthly rate employee’s payroll cycle. Our comprehensive AI Engine automatically calculates all payroll related items and tracks ADW under one-click. Now pay your employees more efficiently!

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Customer Success Story

Workstem supports one-click application/approval on mobile App, which is convenient and fast. It also supports flexible attendance/payroll policies, which perfectly solves Shakujii’s management problem.

Chief Administrative Officer

Workstem supports one-click application/approval on mobile App, which is convenient and fast. It also supports flexible attendance/payroll policies, which perfectly solves Shakujii’s management problem.
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The attendance and payroll modules can be connected together, which can easily manage employees' clock in/out. It can also automatically calculate the payroll based on attendance data, which helps us easily manage payroll affairs.

Director of Operations

The attendance and payroll modules can be connected together, which can easily manage employees' clock in/out. It can also automatically calculate the payroll based on attendance data, which helps us easily manage payroll affairs.
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Workstem can truly integrate all HR and payroll affairs into the system, from employee P-file, scheduling, clocking in/out, attendance, leave, reimbursement, payroll, MPF to tax declaration can be managed on one simple system.

HR director

Workstem can truly integrate all HR and payroll affairs into the system, from employee P-file, scheduling, clocking in/out, attendance, leave, reimbursement, payroll, MPF to tax declaration can be managed on one simple system.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Can Workstem process payroll for multiple F&B brands under one group?

Workstem’s multi-entity functionality allows a group to manage each brand independently under a single account — with separate payroll policies, leave rules and MPF configurations per entity, while generating consolidated group-level labour cost reports.

How does Workstem automatically track 468 working hours for part-time staff in a restaurant chain?

Workstem automatically accumulates each employee’s working hours across every 4-week period. When the total approaches the 68-hour threshold, HR is alerted in real time — eliminating the risk of missed calculations triggering unintended continuous contract obligations.