Challenge: Two growing real estate companies were managing employee leave through Google Sheets and internal processes. Because their weeks were spent verifying payroll, coordinating endless follow ups, and tracking everything across manual systems, both HR leaders didn’t have the time and capacity to focus on other key priorities and support their employees during a leave of absence.
Solution: Both companies partnered with Tilt to simplify leave management and improve the employee experience. With a centralized platform designed to support HR, managers, and employees, their teams could move away from manual processes and toward a system built to scale with their needs.
Results:
- Moved beyond spreadsheet-based leave tracking to a single, dedicated platform
- Reduced time spent on administrative and repetitive leave tasks
- Gave HR time back to focus on employee engagement, culture, and broader People team priorities
Continue reading to see how two real estate companies approached the search for a leave management solution and found a partner to support their People teams.
Outgrowing Manual Leave Management
For two growing real estate companies, employee leave was largely managed internally through manual processes. At one company, the Senior People Operations Manager inherited leave management from a process largely driven by payroll. At the other, the Senior Manager, Benefits and People Operations, was managing leave through Google Sheets.
For HR teams managing leave manually, that often means keeping track of:
- Employee information and important leave details
- The steps involved in coordinating each leave
- Communication and follow-ups throughout the process
And so much more.
Without a dedicated platform, both teams had outgrown their current processes. What started as an easy system to manage had turned their week into overflowing calendar invites and endless email threads.
Finding the Right Leave Management Partner
When both HR leaders began their search for a new leave solution, they researched different vendors across multiple channels, including LinkedIn, the HR Advisory Board, SHRM, and peer recommendations.
The Senior People Operations Manager also took a closer look at the leave management market, meeting with several providers to narrow down which solution was the best fit.
A few of their main considerations were:
- Product: Does the platform actually solve our problems?
- Pricing: Is the solution within our budget and worth the return on investment?
- People: Does this partner provide meaningful support for our team?
For these HR leaders, confidence in both the technology and the people behind it was extremely important. Ultimately, both companies chose to partner with Tilt.
What Changed When HR Partnered with Tilt
For both real estate companies, one of the biggest benefits of implementing Tilt was having a more manageable way to handle leave. Their teams moved beyond spreadsheet-based tracking to a dedicated platform that brought the process into one place and reduced the time spent on administrative and repetitive tasks.
That shift gave their HR teams more time to focus on the people and priorities that needed their attention, including employee engagement, workplace culture, and the broader needs of their organizations.
With Tilt, both companies now had:
- A centralized source of truth: One place to organize and manage leave information, replacing spreadsheet-based tracking.
- Greater visibility: Dedicated dashboards give HR and managers a clearer view of leave activity, milestones, and next steps.
- A more informed and engaging employee experience: Employees can access their own leave milestones, documents, and outstanding tasks in Tilt’s employee dashboard.
- Connected employee data: HRIS and payroll integrations help keep information up to date and reduce manual data entry.
For these two companies, Tilt helped simplify leave and gave their People teams a solution that could scale with their needs and the capacity to truly support their employees.
A More Managable Way to Support Employee Leave
As organizations grow, People teams need processes and technology that can support changing employee needs. For these HR leaders, partnering with a dedicated leave management solution like Tilt meant moving beyond the challenges of manual leave management and bringing HR, managers, and employees into a more connected leave experience.
If you’re curious to see what this could look like for your team, schedule time to meet with Tilt here.
