OfficeLife

OfficeLife is an employee operations platform that brings recruiting, people administration, time tracking, internal communication, project work, and manager workflows into one application. The project offers both a hosted version and a self-hosted path, with the public codebase built on Laravel, Vue, and InertiaJS.

What it does

OfficeLife groups its feature set into five areas: recruiting, employee and team management, day-to-day operations, internal communication, and morale workflows. The product covers applicant tracking, employee records, project management, work logs, wikis, expenses, hardware and software tracking, one-on-ones, and manager feedback processes.

Deployment and operations

The project can be used as a hosted SaaS product or deployed on your own infrastructure. The self-hosted requirements published in the repository call for PHP 8 or newer, the intl extension, a standard web server, and a database stack that prefers MySQL or SQLite, while PostgreSQL is described as something that should work in theory.

Best fit

OfficeLife is positioned for small and midsize businesses with roughly 10 to 500 employees that want a single system instead of stitching together separate HR, project, and communication tools. It is most useful for teams that value source access and are willing to trade polished enterprise depth for a broader all-in-one scope.

Limitations

• The repository was archived in February 2025, so the public codebase is now read-only and carries a clear maintenance risk for new adopters.
• Public releases are concentrated in 2021, with the latest listed stable release at v0.5.0, which makes the packaged release cadence look dated compared with active HR platforms.
• The maintainers describe the application as a complex Laravel system with queues and cron jobs, so self-hosting is heavier than a simple PHP app.
• The published hosting notes prefer MySQL or SQLite and only say PostgreSQL should work in theory, which signals weaker confidence for PostgreSQL deployments.
• OfficeLife is aimed at companies with 10 to 500 employees, so it is not positioned for very small teams or large enterprises with deep specialist HR requirements.