ZenHR, the Riyadh-headquartered, AI-powered HR and payroll platform that bills itself as the first of its kind in the Middle East and North Africa, has opened its sixth regional office in Cairo. The move is designed to strengthen its direct presence in Egypt and support the digital transformation plans of institutions, companies and factories across the local market.
Serving Clients in Egypt
CEO Yousef Shamoun said the Cairo office marks a turning point for the company after around ten years of serving clients in Egypt. ZenHR plans to invest more than EGP 150 million over the next two years to grow its local team and widen the scope of its services.
“We have served Egyptian companies for years, and every update we built into our platform for Egypt started with a request from an Egyptian client,” Shamoun said. “Opening our regional office in Cairo is a practical step towards being closer to our partners. It allows us to offer operational solutions that are more efficient and better suited to the local market, and to build the next generation of HR solutions in Egypt.”
Mid-Sized and Large Companies
Through the expansion, ZenHR is targeting mid-sized and large companies in manufacturing, retail, services and technology, as well as government entities, helping them automate HR processes, cut operating costs and raise productivity.
Over the past years, the company has built its technology to comply fully with Egyptian labour legislation, led by the new Labour Law No. 14 of 2025. The platform calculates payroll automatically in line with income tax, social insurance, the Martyrs’ Fund contribution, end-of-service gratuity and overtime rules. It links attendance, time off and leave directly to payroll across all branches, through a bilingual Arabic-English platform and a mobile app.
Digital Transformation
Shehab El-Din Gomma, VP of Growth at ZenHR, said Egyptian businesses have a strong appetite for digital transformation and for spending more efficiently. “Payroll is where transformation starts, which is why we built the platform to handle the fine detail of Egyptian legislation before anything else,” he said. “From Cairo, we will be closer to our clients and better placed to support them.”
The announcement came at “By Cairo”, a large-scale ZenHR event held in Cairo, attended by Amjad Adaileh, Ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to Egypt, and Mahmoud Galal, Director of the Technical Office of the Deputy Minister of Communications, alongside more than 250 HR leaders and business figures from major Egyptian companies and factories. The programme included a keynote by the CEO and a presentation by Hatem Yousry, ZenHR’s VP of Operations and Egypt GM, on how the platform’s technology was localised for the Egyptian business environment. ZenHR also honoured its longest-standing clients in Egypt and signed new partnership agreements.
Digital Insurance
On the sidelines of the event, ZenHR signed a memorandum of understanding with digital insurance broker Amanleek to connect Amanleek’s services to the platform. The integration starts an employee’s medical insurance cover automatically on their first day and ends it when they leave, with no manual data entry.
The company signed a second MoU with Dopay, a provider of digital salary payment solutions, to transfer payroll approved on ZenHR directly to employees’ payroll cards, including employees without bank accounts. The two partnerships aim to cut the time and effort spent on HR administration and to build an integrated ecosystem serving the local business community.
Management and Organisational Practices
The event also featured a panel titled “Cairo Standard”, with HR leaders from Money Fellows, B.TECH and Nawah Scientific, on the management and organisational practices that have been reworked locally to fit the Egyptian market.
Founded in 2017, ZenHR serves more than 2,500 active companies in 11 countries across the Middle East and North Africa. Its systems are used to manage HR and to calculate and disburse payroll for hundreds of thousands of employees across sectors.