• Bluworks raises $1 million to expand in the Middle East and North Africa.
• The platform centralizes scheduling, attendance, administration and payroll into one system.
• Founder Hussein Wahdan previously held senior planning and performance roles at Jumia Egypt.

Hussein Wahdan targets a sensitive operational challenge inside companies: team organization and the management of employee-related data. His solution aims to meet a growing demand for structure and visibility in workforce administration.

Wahdan is an Egyptian tech entrepreneur and the chief executive of Bluworks, a human-resources technology start-up he founded in 2022 with COO Farah Osman. The company recently raised $1 million to scale across the Middle East and North Africa.

Bluworks operates an online platform that manages HR functions for organizations with large workforces or variable schedules. The tool unifies scheduling, attendance tracking, administrative management and payroll processing in one environment. The company intends to reduce manual workloads and centralize all employee-related data.

The scheduling function enables managers to create and adjust team timetables and to share them without external spreadsheets or scattered updates. The system updates schedules in real time, which limits gaps between instructions and on-site execution.

The real-time attendance module shows who is working, who is missing and who arrives outside expected hours. The platform uses these data points to calculate hours, leave and payroll. The leave module automates requests, approvals and validation workflows, which gives managers a consolidated view of available staff.

The platform also includes a system for bonuses and penalties and a digital HR file for each employee. These tools aim to structure information, avoid double entries and improve operational clarity. The payroll engine connects to all other modules and automatically calculates monthly salaries using recorded data.

Wahdan’s professional path informs Bluworks’ direction. He earned an economics degree in 2010 from the American University in Cairo and an MBA in 2018 from IE Business School in Spain.

He began his career in 2010 as a corporate banking associate at CIB Egypt before joining Jumia Egypt from 2018 to 2022. He first worked as a business planning manager and later became head of planning and performance in 2020.

This article was initially published in French by Melchior Koba

Adapted in English by Ange Jason Quenum