Case Study: JD Sports achieves $100,000 in onboarding savings and faster, centralised onboarding with Flare

$100,000 Saved in Onboarding Allowed Next Athleisure to Effortlessly Launch JD Sports

JD Sports faced a time-consuming, error-prone onboarding process with no central HRIS: a three-person HR team was manually managing records for over 2,000 employees and onboarding hundreds of casual hires during peak seasons. To modernize and speed up HR operations before the busy Christmas period, JD Sports chose Flare’s digital onboarding and HRIS capabilities.

Flare centralized employee data, automated one‑click welcome emails and payroll-ready hire notifications, and worked with JD Sports to customise alerts and data fields so payroll no longer needed manual re-entry. The implementation cut administrative time and errors across thousands of employees, enabled a smoother national launch, and saved approximately $100,000 in onboarding costs — demonstrating clear ROI from Flare.

JD Sports

Jodie Hearne

HR Manager