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Employee Portal

HR employee self service portal employees actually use

A self service portal that absorbs routine questions before they ever reach a person, and tells employees where their case stands without them having to ask.

Dovetail employee portal home page showing a personalized welcome, HR search, time off balance, payslip and benefits tiles, and the employee's own open and closed HR questions

See it working

See the employee portal in action

A walkthrough of the portal your employees actually see: welcome page, knowledge search, case tracking and chat.

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What employees get

Self service people actually use

Employees only use self service when it is faster than emailing HR, so the portal is built around search, case tracking and chat that answer in seconds.

Instant knowledge search

Policies, guides, FAQs, infographics and video, searchable from any device.

Answers in seconds

Ask HR when they need to

When self service does not resolve it, the question becomes a tracked case with no re-typing.

One step to a case

Case tracking

Employees see status without emailing to chase, which removes a large share of tier 1 contact.

No chasing

Chat and AI assistance

Live chat and HR Copilot in Microsoft Teams and Slack, where people already work.

Meet them where they are

Configuration

Change it yourself, the same afternoon

Branding, welcome content, featured articles, categories and permissions are all configured by HR. No ticket to IT, no waiting for a software release, and no outside agency.

  • Personalized welcome content by population, region or business unit
  • Featured articles for open enrollment, policy changes and peak periods
  • Employee feedback and article ratings to show what is working
  • Multi language support for global workforces

Explore knowledge management

Dovetail solution editor where HR configures a Paid Time Off article and publishes it to the employee portal

Make it yours

Your brand, not ours

Employees do not adopt a portal that looks like a vendor tool. Dovetail brands the portal to your organization during implementation. Your brand colors sit in one place, so changing them recolors every page at once, and you can do it yourself whenever you want or hand it to support.

  • Logo, color palette and typography set to your brand
  • Page structure and layout arranged the way your HR function works, not a fixed template
  • Navigation and menus defined by you, so the language matches your organization
  • Every surface themed, not just the home page, so search, browse and case pages match as well
  • The HR Copilot chat window is branded too, so the assistant reads as part of your HR team rather than a third party bot
  • Change it yourself at any time, or ask support to do it for you

See implementation

Dovetail employee portal home page showing a personalized welcome, HR search, time off balance, payslip and benefits tiles, and the employee's own open and closed HR questions

Personalization

One portal, a different experience for every person in it

A manager and the person who reports to them do not need the same portal. Dovetail personalizes what each of them sees, on the same page, without you maintaining two of everything.

Content by persona

Set a persona and the page changes with it. One page serves both audiences. A manager sees manager content, an employee sees employee content, and you maintain it once.

One page, many audiences

Menus by persona

Navigation follows the same rule. Managers get the manager toolkit. Employees are not shown menus they cannot use.

No irrelevant menus

Dynamic employee data anywhere

Any page can pull the reader's own details into the text, so policy and guidance read as if they were written for that person rather than for everyone.

Written for the reader

Our current system felt antiquated. It looked old, it felt old. We wanted a different way to interact and engage with employees, we wanted something where we could live chat. We have a lot of employees and they are younger and younger every day and we wanted to meet them where they are.

Brittany MooreHR Service Center Manager · CUNA Mutual Group

Build your case

Get a costed case for change in five minutes

Assess your HR and ER operation, surface the cost and operational risk hiding inside it, and leave with a maturity score, a recoverable cost estimate and an editable leadership deck.

  • Maturity score across the core dimensions of HR and ER service delivery
  • Recoverable cost and capacity estimate built from your own answers
  • Executive PDF report and an editable leadership presentation
  • Prioritized improvement roadmap

About five minutes. Recoverable means HR time you could redeploy, not guaranteed cash, and Dovetail license cost is not included: this measures your current position, not our price.

28/100

Maturity score, banded Reactive

$1.6M

HR time recoverable a year

13.6 FTE

Equivalent capacity

A real result: 25,000 employees, financial services, HR run on shared inboxes and spreadsheets. Recoverable is HR time that could be redeployed, not guaranteed cash. Yours is built entirely from your own answers.

See the portal your employees would actually get

We will show it configured for a workforce like yours, not a generic demo environment.