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Date Published
Author
Kelsey Mulvey
Word count
853
Language
English
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None

Summary

When a construction company in Silicon Valley, founded by Tom Sagi in 2008, struggled with tracking its employees' time and wages, Sagi envisioned a mobile-friendly platform that made it easy to track time and run payroll from the convenience of your smartphone. This vision led to the founding of Hourly in 2018, a platform designed for small businesses that uses GPS and geo-fencing to track time spent working and automatically calculates overtime based on local labor laws. Hourly aims to make time tracking, payroll, and workers' comp the easiest part of any business owner's day by combining all three and automating functions that aren't core to its business. To streamline its own business, Hourly uses Zapier to create an easy, intuitive onboarding workflow, which has reduced the time spent on onboarding from days to hours and kept mistakes to a minimum. As Hourly continues to evolve, Sagi is confident that Zapier will remain an important tool in improving processes and discovering new software tools. The company plans to add Hourly to the Zapier marketplace, opening up opportunities for its customers to create workflows relevant to their businesses.