How Revology eliminated manual work, propelled its growth, and redirected attention to high-ROI tasks

A professional employer organization (PEO) is a technology and service offering that helps streamline and automate the manual, administrative parts of payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance work, taking them off companies’ plates so they can focus on more important tasks. And that’s exactly what Rippling PEO did for Revology.

Two of the features Rippling PEO offers:

• 24/7 compliance by proactively tracking changing federal and local regulations and detecting and resolving infractions

• Multi-state tax registration and filing by setting up state payroll tax accounts for all employees and automatically calculating and filing state taxes

• 24/7 compliance by proactively tracking changing federal and local regulations and detecting and resolving infractions

• Multi-state tax registration and filing by setting up state payroll tax accounts for all employees and automatically calculating and filing state taxes

And just like that, those tasks—and the hours of work each month that came with them—were off Dan’s plate.

With Rippling PEO, Revology also gets access to certified HR experts who can help Dan and Kayla confidently navigate complex HR decisions—another huge value-add, Kayla said.

“Being in all these states, there's different state laws,” she explained. “If I'm ever questioning if we need to implement a policy or change something on our end, I can always reach out to an HR advisor at Rippling, which is so incredibly helpful for me because no one person can keep up with all the state laws and all the changes that are happening.”

With Rippling, Dan could also leave behind the tedious, frustrating enrollment process he had encountered with his Blue Cross benefits plan. Now, benefits enrollment is built into a fully automated onboarding flow that all new hires start as soon as they accept a job offer at Revology. Even better, it means they can complete paperwork and other administrative parts of onboarding before their first day, Kayla says improves the employee experience.

“It makes for such an exciting day because they're not sitting there filling out their paperwork,” she said. “I've had people comment on how nice that is because they're able to take their time and look into things that they need to on some of the paperwork, such as benefits. They're not just forced to do it on the spot.”

Dan added, “Their first day working at Revology, we spend the entire day talking about the company. They talk to our CEO, they learn about the product we're building. We can use it as an opportunity to rally them around our mission and our vision and our values. It's much more invigorating on day one than filling out a W-4 when they first walk in the door.”

Implementing Rippling has allowed Dan to save hours he used to spend on manual, administrative tasks. He uses it to focus on strategy, growing the business, or getting to know his employees.

“I think it's incumbent on any senior leader in an organization to have a really good feel for where employees are. Employee engagement for me, and for Revology, is an incredibly serious topic. It's not something that we just give lip service to,” he said.

So with some of the time he’s gotten back thanks to Rippling, Dan makes it a priority to have 1:1s with employees.

“I have two primary use cases for the Rippling app on my phone: Number one is to submit expenses, and number two is to get employee cell phone numbers because I call people all the time,” he explained. “I think it's impactful when you reach out to people and talk to them about their roles, particularly coming from someone who is in a C-level position. It goes back to the values that we have as an organization. Why did we want to start this company? Yes, you want to make money. Yes, you want to build something that's really cool. But along the way, you get to have an immense impact on people's lives. As the company grows, so much opportunity becomes available and you can really help people get to the next stage of their career.”