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FISE streamlines payroll and compliance, achieves 80%+ ESS adoption with greytHR

35-45% reduction in manual payroll activities

30-40% reduction in compliance-related exceptions and follow-ups

25-30% reduction in leave and attendance reconciliation effort

20-25% of HR and finance team time freed up

80%+ employee self-service adoption within the first few months

About Foundation for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship

Non-Profit

Total - Employees 90+

Headquarters - Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Foundation for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (FISE) is a Bangalore-based non-profit and technology business incubator established in 2015 in partnership with Tata Trusts and India's Department of Science and Technology. FISE nurtures early-stage social enterprises working on healthcare, livelihoods, clean energy, and other development-sector challenges, supporting them from incubation through to scale via its Social Alpha ecosystem. With a team of 90+ employees, the organization runs on program-led work that depends on efficient, transparent, and compliant HR and payroll operations.

Challenges Before greytHR

With 90+ employees spread across multiple incubation programs, FISE ran its payroll and HR work through spreadsheets and disconnected tools, without one place to see any of it clearly.

Payroll Processes With Minimal Administrative Overhead

As a mission-driven nonprofit, FISE couldn't afford payroll to become its own project: it needed to stay reliable and compliant without pulling attention or budget away from the incubation work at the center of what FISE does.

The Shift to greytHR: Building HR Discipline from Scratch

FISE adopted greytHR to digitize and streamline its core HR and payroll processes while keeping a strong focus on compliance and simplicity. The rollout followed a structured approach, with clear timelines and proactive communication guiding the HR and finance teams through go-live.

greytHR’ support stayed hands-on well past the initial rollout: practical training sessions and easy-to-follow documentation got teams comfortable with payroll quickly, and greytHR's support team has kept resolving queries within same-day or next-business-day timelines since, giving FISE's team steady confidence heading into each payroll cycle.

Benefits Experienced After Implementing greytHR

Payroll Simplified by 35-45%

Automated calculations and standardized workflows now carry most of what payroll used to demand manually, cutting that workload by 35-45% and easing FISE's dependence on spreadsheet-based calculations.

Leave and Attendance Now Centrally Visible

Program managers no longer have to chase attendance and leave data across separate trackers for each initiative; greytHR centralizes it in one place, cutting reconciliation effort by 25-30%.

80%+ Employee Self-Service Adoption

Employees now handle their own leave requests and payroll lookups through greytHR's self-service portal, and adoption crossed 80% within the first few months of rollout.

Compliance Confidence Up, Exceptions Down 30-40%

Built-in statutory validations catch issues before they turn into exceptions, and with regular regulatory updates keeping pace in the background, compliance-related follow-ups have dropped by roughly 30-40%.

20-25% of HR and Finance Time Freed Up

With less rework standing between HR and finance and their actual work, close to a quarter of their time has shifted away from paperwork and toward employee engagement and program support.

Getting payroll and compliance right at FISE used to mean cross-checking spreadsheets program by program, with no single view of who was where or what needed filing next. Since adopting greytHR, manual payroll work is down 35-45%, compliance exceptions have dropped by 30-40%, and leave and attendance reconciliation takes 25-30% less effort. HR and finance have nearly a quarter of their time back for employee engagement and program support, and self-service adoption among employees has crossed 80%. As FISE keeps growing its incubation programs, greytHR gives its team a stable, compliant base to keep building from.