How Nawah Scientific cut the time its HR team spends on payroll, social insurance and attendance requests
The Egyptian life sciences research company connected fingerprint attendance, leave approvals, payroll and Social Insurance Form 2 in ZenHR.
ZenHR has made many tasks much faster and reduced the effort needed to complete them. The payroll process has become much smoother.
About Nawah Scientific
Founded in 2015, Nawah Scientific is Egypt’s first private, multidisciplinary research center. Headquartered in Cairo, it runs scientific research and testing services across the pharmaceutical, food and agricultural sectors, with facilities in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Poland.
The challenge: routine HR work eating the working day
“Our payroll processes used to take a long time. Social insurance procedures also took up a lot of our time.” — Maged Muhammed Younis
The load wasn’t one big task. It was dozens of small ones: leave requests, permissions, personal requests and fingerprint attendance records, each needing someone to check it, approve it and carry it into payroll by hand.
“Routine operations used to take up a significant part of our working day. These included employee leave, permissions, and personal requests, as well as the fingerprint attendance system.” — Maged Muhammed Younis
Social insurance added another layer: forms like Social Insurance Form 2 have to be accurate and on time, and doing them manually took far longer than it should.
Why ZenHR
Nawah needed one system built around how Egyptian companies actually run HR, from daily attendance to monthly payroll to annual obligations. ZenHR covered that full cycle, including Egyptian social insurance.
The solution: requests that flow straight into payroll
A fingerprint attendance correction now follows three steps:
- The employee submits the request in ZenHR.
- Their direct manager approves it.
- The approval is reflected in payroll automatically.
- Time & Attendance with fingerprint integration: attendance data and corrections handled in the system.
- Leaves and permissions through Employee Self-Service, approved by managers in one place.
- Payroll: approved requests feed payroll directly.
- Egyptian social insurance: Social Insurance Form 2 prepared in ZenHR instead of by hand.
“Social insurance is another great feature that ZenHR provides, including Social Insurance Form 2. It can now be completed very quickly, whereas it used to take much longer.” — Maged Muhammed Younis
Results: faster payroll, faster social insurance, less effort
- Smoother payroll: approved attendance and leave requests reach payroll automatically.
- Attendance requests processed in no time, from employee to manager to payroll.
- Social insurance done quickly: Form 2 is now completed very quickly.
- Time back in the working day for the HR team.
“ZenHR has made many tasks much faster and reduced the effort needed to complete them. The payroll process has become much smoother with ZenHR.” — Maged Muhammed Younis
In his words
“Would I recommend ZenHR? Absolutely. I would recommend it as an HR system to companies in Egypt, because it covers the needs we deal with daily, monthly, and annually across Egyptian companies in general.” — Maged Muhammed Younis
