Case Study: Bronson Healthcare cuts time-to-fill in half and saves $3.1M with Workday Adaptive Planning

Bronson Healthcare transforms and streamlines operations with Workday

Bronson Healthcare, a Kalamazoo-based health system founded in 1900 with 8,500 employees serving southwest Michigan and northern Indiana, needed to modernize to proactively respond to changes in healthcare. As part of a culture and lean management transformation, its legacy HR systems were disjointed and didn’t provide managers with real-time, accurate data.

Bronson implemented Workday to consolidate systems, automate processes, and improve reporting and analytics—leading to a 28% uptick in applicants, time to fill dropping from 60 to 30 days, and candidate application time falling from 60 minutes to 5. Greater visibility and tighter controls delivered $3.1M in annual savings from improved pay practices, $200K from decommissioned systems (plus $80K in reallocated technical resources), while manager engagement and HRIS self‑service increased dramatically.

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