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Your personalised benefits and engagement platform for global teams
Happl - Personalised benefits for employees to choose what’s right for them, and tools for managers to engage their teams, whilst we take care of all the compliance and admin. Founded in 2020 and based in London, UK, Happl works with some of the UK’s leading employers to bring their hybrid working culture to life! https://www.happl.com/
Happl is presented as a global employee benefits platform that centralizes management of core, group, and flexible benefits, with AI-powered personalization, extensive integrations, and global compliance. It markets itself as an intuitive, compliant solution for HR and finance teams to automate benefits administration across many countries and languages.
Happl offers a benefits platform where employees enroll in core, group, and flexible benefits, including allowances, insurance, and salary sacrifice, with global/local policy management, insights, gifting, requests, and automated workflows. The product emphasizes AI-powered personalization, smart automations, and integrations with 100+ systems (e.g., HRIS like BambooHR and Workday) via APIs to automate onboarding, offboarding, payroll, and more, reducing admin while ensuring compliance across 160+ countries and 70+ languages. It includes features for customisable workflows, flexible budgets by role/team, AI-driven benefit recommendations, and a unified benefits ecosystem that connects with insurance and other providers.
Who it’s for: Global enterprises and fast-growing scale-ups needing unified, compliant employee benefits across multiple countries and languages
Noted as actively deployed with retention metrics and customer testimonials; claims of global deployment and multiple languages suggest traction and some level of customer validation
Ben (24) is Co-Founder at Happl (formerly Tahora). An entrepreneur since he was 11 years old when he started his first business, Towers Design, Ben has always been motivated by creating things that help people. By 18 he was named by The Times as 'the smartest teenager on the planet' and working with the UK Government and Royal Family on their entrepreneurship programmes. Prior to starting Tahora, Ben was the Communications Director at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
We manage all of your people engagement initiatives whilst saving you money and time on implementation, admin, and compliance.
Happl offers a platform to manage and optimize employee engagement, recognition, and flexible benefits across regions, with compliance and cost-savings at the core. It provides onboarding via HRIS, personalized employee profiles, manager gifting, and a marketplace of benefits for organizations from startups to large companies.
From the original launch (Dec 2022) — may be outdated.
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