5 Real HR Automations Saving Teams Time & Money

Automation Talent Show Finalists 

We asked Rippling customers to show us their best automations. Five teams answered the call, showcasing workflows that save hundreds of hours, eliminate compliance risk, and avoid six-figure recruiting costs. These aren't theoretical use cases—they're running right now, in the background, making work easier. Meet the finalists.

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Nicole Lowry

Director of People Operations, PureCars

Nicole built an end-to-end referral bonus program that runs itself. During onboarding, new hires select whether or not they were referred and by who. Then Rippling takes over—automatically paying out half the bonus at 90 days, the other half at 120 days, and notifying the referrer each time that the payout is on its way. No spreadsheets, no manual tracking, no missed payouts. The result? Nicole saves 20 hours a year, and PureCars has avoided an estimated $700K in contract recruiter costs by keeping hiring in-house.

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Chris Vieulles

Director of People Operations, Partnership on AI

Chris turned a compliance headache into a seamless workflow. As a non-profit, Partnership on AI needs to track every government engagement. If they're ever audited, they need to prove they're not lobbying. Before, tracking government meetings meant juggling spreadsheets and hoping nothing slipped through the cracks. Now, team members submit meeting requests through a Custom App, and approvals route automatically to the right person. After each meeting, employees go back into the app to log details in one place. No more spreadsheets, no more guesswork, and significantly less compliance risk.

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Shannon Kingery

Compliance Director, Silver Creek Materials

Shannon built a disciplinary tracking system that keeps everything in one place. Instead of using a separate system, managers at Silver Creek Materials log warnings—both written and verbal—in a Custom App, which is then directly updated to their Rippling employee profile. Every log creates a timestamped, accessible record. When questions come up or managers need context on past issues, the full history is right there. No more digging, no more scattered documentation.

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Alicia Coveney

HR Manager, Weekender Hotels

Automation: Alicia eliminated the manual work that comes with administering and managing compliance training. Before Rippling, she was manually following up about required courses. Now, she uses Rippling's LMS to automate required training. Rippling assigns training based on employee attributes, like role, department, or tenure—without manual effort. Plus, she built custom courses in Rippling's Course Builder (like one on Weekender Hotels' core values from their CEO) and set them to automatically assign to new hires one month after their start date. No calendar reminders, no chasing people down, no wondering who's completed what. The system handles it all, ensuring compliance with state-mandated training while giving Alicia hours back every week to focus on higher-impact work.

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Allie Holle

Senior HR Manager, Sparq

Automation: Allie turned a multi-hour nightmare into a single click. Before Rippling, generating executive reports at Sparq meant exporting data from a previous platform, wrangling it in Excel, then re-uploading it into a BI tool, a process Allie says required "near-developer-level effort." Now? She easily generates reports with Rippling’s drag-and-drop reporting tools and then can export them to a polished dashboard ready for the leadership team. What used to eat up hours of technical work every week now happens instantly, freeing Allie to actually analyze the data instead of just assembling it.

From $700K in recruiting savings to reports that generate in one click, these automations share one thing in common: they solved real problems that were draining real time. Your version might look different, but the impact will be the same.

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