Gusto launches a free HR product for small businesses

Gusto is good stuff. Happy customer am I. Please, keep your focus and stay good at what you do. Don't wander off into the 'new revenue channel' weeds and lose sight of what's made you great.

Gusto's payroll product has been exceptionally good, especially when compared to the other systems in the space. We always wished for something similar in HR/benefits, so this is great news.

Does Gusto plan to expand their business outside of the US? In Europe every country has its own actors in this market, mostly small companies with a few hundred customers. I wonder why there is still no company providing a solution working (almost) everywhere. Stripe but for HR.

I have used Gusto since it was Zen Payroll (for myself and my clients) and love it. In looking at this product release, I am not sure how this is different than their current product offering. Isn't this already on their Core plan, which has been available for quite a while now. What am I missing here?

The 'welcome wall' is a nice feature, but I imagine it is only as good as its input, and could be quite detrimental if new employees just saw a blank page.

Happy Gusto customer for two years now, this looks promising.

What's the free part? 1 month trial free? I don't see any free offerings besides that. Click bait.

Really love what Gusto is working on bringing high quality HR solutions to very early stage startups. It especially helps with reducing toil on the founders trying to figure out how to run a company for the first time, as well as bridging the expectations for employees that are used to more sophisticated HR systems in large companies.