Case Study: 89 Degrees East halves onboarding time with Employment Hero

How 89 Degrees East halved onboarding time and reduced admin by one-third

89 Degrees East, a Melbourne-based communications and strategy agency with 55 employees, had outgrown its patchwork HR setup of spreadsheets, Google Docs, email chains and Xero. As the business scaled quickly, Employment Hero’s Premium HR, EAP and HR Advisory Line were brought in to replace the manual process and reduce the growing admin burden.

With Employment Hero, 89 Degrees East streamlined onboarding, centralized employee records, templated HR workflows and reduced errors in contracts and policy acknowledgments. The company says onboarding time was cut by about half, admin-related emails dropped by around one-third, and the team gained time to focus on strategic people initiatives like leadership development, engagement and performance reviews.

89 Degrees East

Ruth Swinton

Business Manager