Hermes (known as essiHRMS through version 1.9) is a Human Resource Management System. Hermes was created by E.S. Systems, Inc. (ESSI) located in Springfield, Missouri to fill a need by a hospice provider with national presence to manage their ever increasing paper work on nursing staff. Hermes provides for storing employee data records and important additional employee data such as available vacation and sick time, available benefits, or payrate history. Additionally, Hermes is a flexible time and attendance system. As a time and attendance system it allows for managing employee attendance via a PC based time clock or via wall-mountable time clocks to collect clock in and clock out events. As a time management system it allows for managing employee time spent on projects, tasks, or out of office visits.