Canadian Employee Handbook Builder for Small Business

What's Included in the Employee Handbook Builder

The Employee Handbook Template:  Different & Better

You can spend thousands of dollars — and hours — creating an employee handbook that collects 'dust' on your shelves.  Or, you can create one that's easy-to-use, full of relevant content and written in every-day plain English. 

Here are the top 10 reasons why the HR Toolkit's Employee Handbook Builder offers the best Canadian employee handbook template available.  

1.  Not just an employee handbook template

It can be just a Word employee handbook template; but the Employee Handbook Builder is a a complete platform to get your project over the finish line. From planning to launch, it includes guidance, tips, and step-by-step  customization instructions.

It also includes a sign-off form and project tools for when you launch your handbook. It's up to you how much help you access.  

2.  Flexible: go basic or comprehensive

Create Employee Handbook
You get a comprehensive menu of topics and policies for each province we support. Together they sport a menu of  125+ topics / policies. We help you figure out what's important and how to prioritize what gets done first.  It's up to you if you want to go basic with an Employee Handbook or all the way with a more comprehensive Employee Manual that doubles as an orientation program for staff covering everything they need to know about your workplace, from information about your business to operational details. 

Create Condensed Employee Handbook
Or delete sections and topics with a click of a mouse to create a condensed employee handbook. 

3.  It's a professional and casual document

Made for Today's Workplace

• Gender neutral. Written without the use of he, she, her, his, etc., without sounding forced.
• Business-casual. Written in every day language in plain English (except where legalese is required)
• Uses a modern and business-casual tone.

​Professionally-Written & Compliant​

• Created by experienced HR professionals and consultants
• Reviewed and edited by one professional writer with a Masters in instructional design resulting in consistent language & voice throughout.  
• Reviewed by employment lawyers. 

Fresh, Clean & Easy-to-Read 

• Professional formatting and auto-generated table of contents improves usability and makes you look like a pro!

• Professional, consistent formatting applied from a custom suite of pre-defined styles
• Clear, hierarchical header structure make the documents easy to scan and read.

4.  Dead-easy to customize

We've provided click and replace placeholders where you need to place your company-specific information.  Built with easy-to-use styles so you can brand your employee handbook with a couple of clicks.  It provides pre-written text for all policies / topics so you never have to start with a blank page. 

5.  It's well thought out

We've thought of all the details based on decades of helping 1000s of customers create their own employee handbooks or manuals. You won't be left hanging and you won't hit a dead end. We've anticipated your roadblocks and answer your questions before you'll even know to ask them.    

6.  Help for topics & policies

You'll understand the purpose, importance and benefits of each topic;  any risks associated with it;  level of HR expertise, and time/effort required to customize it;  recommendations for legal review;  if any key decisions or approvals are required;  up-to-date links to the right pages on legislated websites; tips.   

• Topic Help example for Code of Conduct policy
• Topic Help example for Public Holiday policy

7.  Help with Word & Excel 

We created the employee handbook template, so the Word and Excel help we provide was written by us, specifically for using our templates.  You don't need advanced Word or Excel skills to work with the templates, but we know that there's nothing more annoying than getting stuck with a formatting challenge. Get quick snippet videos that tell you exactly how to make your handbook look crisp and professional.

8.  Always up to date

The Employee Handbook Builder is online so you'll always have access to the latest and greatest version of the templates and we let you know when we make changes.   

9.  You get product support

Get your questions answered from an extensive FAQ library, or contact us with your questions.

10.  It's a total bargain

The Employee Handbook Builder was once it's own stand-alone product and is now one of 22 ready-to assemble kits included in HR Toolkit.  Even if you don't think you'll need the other kits, the Employee Handbook Builder is an affordable and cost-effective tool on its own.