WorkSoftware & Automation
Kastros HR
for Kastros Group · Dubai and Pakistan
One HR platform for a group operating across Dubai, Karachi and Multan — from public job application through onboarding, leave, performance and compliance.
The challenge
Employee data was fragmented across drives and inboxes. Leave was tracked by email with no shared approval queue or balances. Applicants arrived as PDF attachments and were re-keyed at hire. Performance ran on paper with no phase control, and policy sign-offs could not be proven with a timestamp. Leadership asked HR for headcount and pending items every week — manually.
What Astriva delivered
- Public apply portal whose approved applications prefill onboarding, with no re-keying
- Leave routing from employee to line manager to HR, with email at every step
- Performance cycle on an 80/20 weighted PMDF with HR-controlled phase lockdown
- Manager authority derived from the reporting line, so approvals scale without extra seats
- Timestamped policy acknowledgements, conflict-of-interest registry and an append-only audit log
In context
Managers are not a fourth login tier. Manager powers derive from the “reports to” email on each profile, so approvals scale with organisational depth at no extra licensing cost. Three login roles — Employee, HR Admin and CEO — sit behind three-layer access control: route middleware, server-action policy and row-level visibility.
The rollout was structured in three weeks: foundation, people, then operations.
Supported outcomes
- Zero re-keying at hire
- Three business units and multi-currency compensation in one system
- Live executive dashboard replaces the weekly headcount request
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