Time & Attendance Case Study: Lowenstein Sandler
Law Firm Overrules Inefficient Business Processes with Online Time & Attendance Solution.
Client Profile
Lowenstein Sandler, an AmLaw 200 law firm with more than 275 attorneys, represents public and private companies, financial institutions, investors, entrepreneurs, universities, and private clients in corporate and litigation matters throughout the globe. Lowenstein Sandler attorneys are constantly immersed in evolving business and legislative developments that impact the industries that drive the economy.
The Challenge
Lowenstein Sandler is a nationally recognized law firm with a passion for understanding their clients' needs and providing key counsel in every case they represent. However, when it came to managing numerous office locations, Lowenstein Sandler was encumbered by legacy procedures that required the firm to manually track employee time and attendance by paper records. This outdated and laborious process required over 250 manual entries that produced errors that could only be corrected through complex data verification processes.
Key financial stakeholders for Lowenstein Sandler were looking for a solution for tracking employee time that would eliminate paperwork and increase the company's efficiency and productivity through improved data accuracy. Lowenstein Sandler identified the key challenges as:
- Time-consuming & labor intensive payroll processes
- Inaccurate employee data
- Implement market leading technology with minimal IT investment
The Solution
Lowenstein Sandler's need for a robust and flexible program, one that seamlessly fit into their technical and financial constraints and would work with their existing payroll provider, required a cutting-edge time and attendance platform. Even more challenging, the finance department required an easy-to-use solution that was capable of integrating with their payroll provider because changing was not an option. Lowenstein Sandler evaluated many hosted and on demand solutions, but ultimately settled on iEmployee Time & Attendance due to the cost benefits associated with web-based solutions.
iEmployee product specialists consulted with Lowenstein Sandler's payroll provider Ceridian to tailor iEmployee Time & Attendance to capture, report and transfer all employee data. With the iEmployee solution in place, employees could use a basic web-browser to clock in/out as well as access and manage their schedules, time-off balances and attendance history. iEmployee Time & Attendance worked seamlessly with internal Human Resources management systems and payroll provider Ceridian to increase operational efficiency across the organization.
The Benefits
Upon deployment, Lowenstein Sandler realized immediate gains in productivity and reduced the costs associated with payroll. "iEmployee Time & Attendance allows HR toshift the burden of maintaining and updating employee records across the entire organization," said Patricia Sost, Secretarial Services Manager for Lowenstein Sandler.
"iEmployee provides huge time savings and increased our ability to easily view time off balances and attendance history."
Key benefits of using iEmployee:
- Significantly reduced the time it takes to process payroll
- Improved productivity and employee morale through increased access to employee information
- Increased accuracy and the need for regular data audits by eliminating paper processes
By adopting a web-based solution to time and attendance tracking, Lowenstein Sandler was able to meet the demand of their growing offices and increase the timeliness and accuracy of their payroll process - without having to invest significant time and IT resources to make it happen. With the days of the paper-based, manual processes behind them, Lowenstein Sandler works on driving costs down and accelerating their business forward.
