Case Study: Colombo Social achieves faster rostering and payroll with Deputy

Building a social enterprise to share culture and help underserved communities

Colombo Social, a social enterprise building community through food and culture, needed a simpler way to manage rostering, timesheets, payroll, and staff communication across two business units. With just 15–20 staff, they wanted to cut down the time spent on admin and better control labor costs, so they turned to Deputy for scheduling and workforce management.

Deputy streamlined Colombo Social’s operations by making it easy to switch between business units, create timesheets, and complete payroll in about half an hour instead of nearly a full day. Deputy’s News feed also improved communication and compliance tracking for COVID guidelines and house policies, while the business saw significant yearly savings and regained valuable time to focus on growing its social enterprise work.

Colombo Social

Peter Jones-Best

Co-founder