Case Study: Mills Properties achieves a 15% reduction in turnover and halves payroll processing time with Paylocity

Property Management Firm Reduces Turnover More than 15 Percent

Mills Properties, a St. Louis–based residential property management firm with 200+ employees across 28 communities, struggled with high turnover (around 48%) and disjointed communication because many staff were mobile and lacked company email. They engaged Paylocity for an integrated HR and payroll platform and mobile social tools—using modules such as Community, Impressions, Surveys, Time & Attendance, Recruiting/Onboarding, and Payroll—to better engage employees and streamline HR processes.

Paylocity deployed its connected platform (mobile Community for communications, Impressions for recognition, Surveys and Analytics, geofenced Time & Attendance, and integrated Recruiting/Onboarding), centralizing data and automating workflows. As a result, Mills cut payroll processing time in half, reduced average turnover by more than 15 percentage points (to about 31%), and saved roughly $75,000 by eliminating duplicate systems, while gaining analytics that produce reports in minutes rather than days.

Mills Properties

Shawn Simmons

Vice President of Human Resources