Case Study: Life Time streamlines operations and cuts payroll processing from 48 hours to 1 hour with Workday Adaptive Planning

Life Time streamlines business management and empowers employees

Life Time, a lifestyle and fitness company with more than 150 locations in the U.S. and Canada and about 38,000 employees, struggled with fragmented, costly applications, paper‑intensive and slow finance and HR processes, an overly complex general ledger, and limited scalability amid rapid growth and changing compliance requirements.

By implementing Workday (Financial Management, HCM, Expenses, Procure‑to‑Pay, Data Hub, Talent Acquisition and Prism Analytics), Life Time unified and automated core processes and added data/ML insights—consolidating 60 systems to one, cutting the chart of accounts from 10,000 to 1,000, reducing payroll processing from 48 hours to under 1 hour, trimming two‑thirds of financial FTE support, resolving accounting errors in 30 minutes, and achieving 95% mobile adoption with 35,000 daily logins, plus significant overtime and manager‑hour savings.

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