Case Study: POLYWOOD achieves 300% workforce growth and saves 2,000+ hours annually with Paylocity

Furniture Manufacturer Pivots HR Strategy to Enable Explosive Growth

Polywood, a manufacturer that turns recycled plastics into all‑weather outdoor furniture, faced a surge in demand that required tripling its workforce from about 600 to 1,800 employees. Manual, paper‑based recruiting, onboarding, time collection and an inadequate legacy ADP payroll system made rapid hiring and day‑to‑day HR work slow and error‑prone, so Polywood turned to Paylocity for a scalable HR and payroll platform.

Paylocity delivered an all‑in‑one solution—automated Recruiting & Onboarding, the Paylocity Mobile App and kiosks, Community for collaboration, self‑service and Data Insights—that sped hiring and digitized routine tasks. The result: more than 1,200 hires over three years and 300% workforce growth without adding Payroll headcount, 93% daily mobile app adoption, and 2,000+ annual hours saved (with prior payroll admin savings of ~40 hours/week), plus realtime HR insights to support continued growth.

Polywood

Ryan Zimmerman

Senior Director of Human Resources