Case Study: Paris Baguette achieves a people-first culture and streamlined HR with Paylocity

Bakery Brand Creates the Perfect Recipe for People-First Culture with Paylocity

Paris Baguette, a growing neighborhood bakery café brand led by Chief People Officer Michelle Jagroop, faced an outdated HR stack and paper-based processes that hampered compensation planning, performance management, and company-wide communication—especially since many frontline employees don’t use corporate email. After dissatisfaction with ADP, Paris Baguette selected Paylocity and its Compensation, Performance and Community modules (plus Employee Voice and the Paylocity Mobile App) to support its people-first culture across corporate-owned operations.

Paylocity digitized compensation and performance workflows (using Journals for ongoing coaching), centralized communication through Community, and integrated benefits data via an API to Selerix while rolling out Recruiting, Onboarding and Time & Labor. The result: one HR platform managing 9 corporate locations and 625+ corporate employees, faster merit planning and budget alignment (merit-cycle dashboard example: $21,476 total budget with usage tracking), improved engagement through Employee Voice, and time savings that let Paris Baguette make data-driven decisions with Paylocity’s Insights & Recommendations.

Paris Baguette

Michelle Jagroop

Chief People Officer