HRIS for GCC Businesses — What You Need Before the Spreadsheet Breaks

A GCC-specific HRIS needs multi-currency support across GCC currencies (AED, SAR, QAR, KWD, BHD, OMR, EGP), Arabic interface with right-to-left layout, and GCC-specific statutory leave rules including annual leave, Hajj leave, and country-specific maternity entitlements. A European HRIS retrofitted for the region handles none of these natively and breaks at exactly the wrong moment — typically audit, rapid hiring, or a regulator query — because the workarounds that made it function at 30 employees stop scaling at 80.