Employee/Human Resources Open Source Packages?

Linker3000 asks: "I'm a great fan of Open Source software (I just wish my programming skills allowed me to give something back) and I have already impressed my boss by implementing a company intranet based on eGroupware, our broadband connected servers are monitored by Nagios, staff can participate in online surveys using PHPSurveyor and they can also attend online learning using Moodle, but so far I have not found anything to take care of our Personnel/HR requirements - a simple tool that would keep employee details, allow the Web-based booking, signing off and tracking of holiday requests and act as a repository for personnel-level correspondence and activities between staff and Area Managers. I have had a look through Sourceforge, Freshmeat and Google without finding anything even near to ideal (there's a few things in various states of readiness and planning), so am I missing that 'one' Open Source HRMS (Human Resources Management System) that 'everyone talks about' or do I need to start looking at commercial apps? Either way, your advice and experiences would be appreciated."

Northwind?

[Attar81]

I know this company, Northwind, that has a pretty sweet employee database that they made. Maybe I can find the samples I have somewhere...

Re:HR types don't like things like this...

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

Yeah, how dare they want to keep the confidential employee records out of your grubby little fingers.

The nerve!

(coming to you from the son of a HR manager)

Re:HR types don't like things like this...

[jcuffe]

We could have inferred that last line anyway. It's not like anyone else would have that opinion aside from actual HR types.