How AlBawardi Achieved Faster Payroll, Faster Approvals, and Email-Free Employee Requests with Jisr?

Challenges Before Jisr

Before adopting Jisr, AlBawardi faced several challenges that affected the speed and efficiency of its HR operations:

• Slow payroll processing: Payroll processing took around 6 business days due to manual processes and multiple review steps, making the payroll cycle longer than necessary.
• Employee requests via email: Employee requests, such as leave requests, letters, and documents, were handled through email, resulting in more than 180 requests per month that had to be manually tracked and processed.
• Slow approvals: Employee requests took around 3 days to receive approval, delaying request completion and affecting the speed of daily operations.
• Challenges in access permissions: AlBawardi needed better control over data access permissions, ensuring that each user could only access information relevant to their role, while improving data organization and confidentiality.

Solution with Jisr

AlBawardi adopted a range of Jisr solutions to unify its HR operations and automate daily processes, helping simplify workflows and accelerate task completion.

• Payroll Management

1. Automated payroll processing and reduced manual procedures.
2. Reduced payroll processing time from 6 business days to just 2 days.
3. Organized payroll operations within a unified, easy-to-manage system.

• Employee Self-Service

1. Enabled employees to submit and track their requests directly through the system.
2. Digitized leave requests, letters, and document requests.
3. Reduced reliance on email for submitting and following up on requests.
4. Made HR services more accessible to employees without requiring manual intervention from the HR team.

• Attendance Management

1. Digitized attendance tracking and employee working hours.
2. Organized attendance data and connected it with other HR processes.
3. Reduced manual work involved in monitoring working hours.

• Employee Performance Management

1. Organized employee performance evaluations through the system.
2. Standardized performance evaluation processes and centralized their tracking within the HR system.

• Jisr Employee Engagement

1. Provided digital channels to facilitate employee interaction with HR processes.
2. Supported a smoother employee experience by bringing services and requests together in one system.

• Access Permissions Management

1. Organized employee data access permissions based on user roles.
2. Improved control over sensitive data and information.
3. Ensured each user could access only the information relevant to their role and permissions.

Results

Adopting Jisr led to measurable improvements in the speed and efficiency of AlBawardi’s HR operations:

• 67% faster payroll processing: Payroll processing time decreased from 6 business days to 2 days within 45 days, enabling the HR team to complete payroll cycles in less time.

• 83% faster approvals: Approval time decreased from 3 days to half a day within 14 days, accelerating employee requests and improving workflow efficiency.
• Eliminated email-based requests: HR requests received via email decreased from 180+ requests per month to zero within 45 days, as employees transitioned to submitting requests through the system.