In the summer of 2023, LightForce left the former HRIS and joined Rippling. Now, the company has a one-stop shop for scheduling, time and attendance tracking, and a full-scale HRIS—along with a platform that supports its growing international team.
“The workflows alone are game-changing for us,” Laura said. “Rippling has really been able to support the uniqueness of our company. It’s been instrumental in bringing us to where we are now.”
Rippling has really been able to support the uniqueness of our company. It’s been instrumental in bringing us to where we are now.
Laura Downey
HR Manager at LightForce
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Scheduling features that save time and boost productivity
LightForce took scheduling out of Slack and spreadsheets and into Rippling, which allowed the operations team to efficiently assign shifts that met production needs.
“I manage 80+ people right now by myself. It’s a lot to keep track of,” Glenn said. “Rippling has been a huge help.
Since Rippling’s Scheduling feature integrates with its HRIS, the company now has full visibility over employees’ time off, meaning Glenn can move around shifts to accommodate demand—so that employees cross-trained for different skills can pick up whatever task is most necessary to carry out, whenever it’s needed.
“I can schedule ahead and make sure I’m assigning employees to areas that’ll have more work,” Glenn said. “They’re more productive and we’re able to get work through the factory more efficiently.”
I manage 80+ people right now by myself. It’s a lot to keep track of. Rippling has been a huge help.
Glenn Lemieux
Operations Manager at LightForce
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Better attendance tracking
Rippling helped LightForce monitor attendance in real-time. Glenn cited the platform’s “points” feature, which accumulate based on violations like tardiness and absenteeism, as a helpful tool that encourages employees to stay compliant.
“We’re seeing people making sure they’re staying within the means of what they’re scheduled for,” he said. “The points feature inside Scheduling has been big. I love it so far.”
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Seamless overtime management
LightForce can also proactively manage overtime. Instead of employees making last-minute overtime requests, Glenn used Rippling to create policies that restrict employees who have already hit overtime from signing up for open shifts without his approval. In addition to giving LightForce’s administrators more visibility over approvals, the revamped process helps reward productive employees with extra shifts when they want them.
“We want to make sure we’re giving people who are coming in, being productive, and care about their work opportunities to make more money while benefiting the company,” Glenn said.
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Automated onboarding and payroll
With their prior HRIS, onboarding each new employee involved 30 minutes of manually distributing and collecting forms, inputting information, and creating new profiles, followed by hour-long meetings with new hires on their first day to finish setting them up. With Rippling, the hour and a half process was reduced to minutes.
“I remember getting up extra early when we had eight or nine new employees starting in one day,” Shawn, (LightForce’s HR Generalist) said. “Whereas now we have them set up far in advance. It’s no problem.”
Rippling also allowed LightForce to cut payroll processing time from an hour to 10 minutes, ridding the need to constantly double check data, manually update employee information if they move or change roles, or do any manual calculations if an employee started halfway through a pay period.
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Global support at scale
With Rippling, LightForce has a single source of truth that supports its entire workforce within the US and internationally, keeping pace with growth every step of the way.
“While we grew, Rippling technologies were also growing and expanding,” said Laura (LightForce’s HR Manager). “Rippling has been really successful in our different employment types, payroll, and time and attendance in different countries.”