- The situation
- A district of more than 8,000 employees ran leave administration by hand, outside the HR system it already owned. About 23 fields hand-keyed per case, 24 to 28 clicks to check one person, and a caseload nobody could state.
- The work
- Working about 20 hours a week, Sheriece built the leave record the district needed using only the tools it already owned. The team types an employee ID, the record fills the other 76 fields and re-verifies itself every pay cycle, and pay errors are caught before payroll closes. Live in 27 days, 509 cases proven, 44,065 cells re-audited with zero errors, and roughly 19 to 29 hours a week handed back.
- Why it matters here
- This is the premise in practice. The workflow was redesigned first. The automation landed second. Read the full record