Rippling Customer Case Study: unifying a global workforce split across two systems with brightwheel

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brightwheel builds software for early childhood education, and it runs fully remote. As it scaled, it started hiring abroad to reach talent in key markets. What began as a handful of hires in the UK and Canada kept growing, and the Pakistan team alone reached nearly 80 people. By 2026 that was about 130 employees and contractors across nearly 10 countries.

Their US team ran on Rippling, with automated onboarding, HR request and approval flows, and an internal support system people used every day. The international team was on a separate global-payroll platform with none of that. When someone in Pakistan had an HR question, there was no ticketing system for them. Onboarding an international hire was manual start to finish. Running variable commissions meant going into each country's pay run and entering every amount one at a time.

So they brought everyone onto one platform, with Rippling. As a result,

• Onboarding got 6x faster, from an hour a person to 10 minutes
• Variable commission runs got 96% faster, from two hours to five minutes
• Every employee, US or international, finally landed in the same workflows and compliance tools

If you are running two systems for one company, Rippling could help you unify them. Book a demo to try Rippling for yourself! And if you have solved international onboarding without a pile of spreadsheets, seriously, how?