How Azza Fahmy took 400+ employees off manual spreadsheets with ZenHR

The challenge: an HR team buried in spreadsheets

For more than 55 years, Azza Fahmy has made jewelry inspired by heritage. Behind the showrooms, HR for 400+ employees across several locations ran on manual sheets, and that broke down in three places:

• Reliable data was a project in itself. Every report for senior management meant gathering and checking data by hand.
• Attendance across locations was hard to keep straight. Knowing who was in, on leave or remote meant chasing each site.
• Payroll took over the team’s week. Many factors had to be calculated and double-checked manually every cycle.

“We were using manual sheets, which made it hard for us to make decisions or produce reports we could present to senior management.” — Sara El-Roubi

Why ZenHR

Azza Fahmy didn’t want to rebuild its payroll rules to suit new software. ZenHR adapted to the company’s existing payroll structure and business requirements, so the team could move off spreadsheets without starting from scratch.

How Azza Fahmy uses ZenHR

• Attendance: one view of who’s in across every location.
• Time Off: leave requests and balances always up to date.
• Payroll: salary calculations built around Azza Fahmy’s own payroll factors.
• Employee Self-Service: employees check their own leave balances and salary details.
• Internal Communication: announcements from management go straight to employees.

The results

• Far less manual work on payroll and reporting, with a clear jump in productivity.
• Attendance managed from one screen for every location.
• Employees find their own answers, from leave balances to who’s on leave today, so fewer routine requests reach HR.

“ZenHR is a flexible system, and its main strength is that it’s very user-friendly, so employees feel very comfortable using it, which increases engagement.” — Sara El-Roubi