Human resources management system (ATOM)

My Government of Canada Human Resources (MyGCHR) was the Government of Canada’s system for the management of all human resources information in the federal public service. The system was a key component of the Government of Canada Human Resources Modernization Initiative.

In December 2014, Public Services and Procurement Canada’s Human Resources Branch implemented MyGCHR to replace its legacy human resources management system and related application suite. The deployment of the system was a complex endeavour, which involved the conversion and migration of large quantities of data from multiple existing human resources applications. The goal was to ultimately replace all human resources systems (including legacy systems) across the government with this 1 solution.

The project was put on hold in December 2017 to focus on the Phoenix issues, with the goal of restarting the project in 2021 or 2022. The Office of the Auditor General of Canada (OAG) needed an immediate interim solution, as its legacy system (MIS 2000) was not compatible with Phoenix and other corporate applications.

As the expectation was that the OAG would eventually need to convert to an enterprise-wide solution, no funding or support for any purchase of systems was expected from the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. So, the only option was to develop our own solution in-house.

This system, ATOM, was designed to replace MIS in the handling of personnel information, including personal and related employment information. ATOM collects and maintains information from employees through either electronic or paper processes throughout the employment period. ATOM also contains information migrated from MIS.