Chess.com is the no.1 online destination for playing and mastering the game of chess. Its 100% remote team of 200 helps 36 million members play over 5 million games of chess each day. Bryce, Chess.com’s Controller, runs all the HR, Finance and Accounting, so his time is tight. Zenefits’ contractor model was forcing him to manage 50 employees and 150 contractors across multiple systems and he hated how hard it was to access simple information. ‘I was cross-referencing Pandadoc for their agreements, Pingboard for annual leave and Zenefits for payroll’.
He was also spending too much time tracking their 50+ SaaS apps in Google Sheets and worried about security. ‘It’s super dangerous if people retain access to certain dev systems, and when someone left, I never knew if we removed them’. He wanted a single source of truth for employee management that would work with all the little edge cases of contractors and remote employees. After a quick 4-week implementation, he handled it all by himself. He’s sleeping easy at night knowing Rippling is ‘taking care of those 1,000 little daily things, saving not just my time, but managers across the company’s time as well’.