A CASE STUDY
Bringing Order to HR Complexity
THE CHALLENGE
For small companies, HR can feel overwhelming. Layers of compliance, hiring, payroll, and people issues overlap and tangle, requiring constant mental energy from leadership. For Snack Video, HR felt complicated, hard to organize, and difficult to manage while still focusing on the core business.
THE SOLUTION
PeopleWise partnered with Snack Video through an embedded HR model led by Angela, Senior HR Advisor. Together, we built clear systems and provided steady guidance so leadership could focus on the business.
HR Foundation
PeopleWise built simple, reliable systems for compliance, payroll, hiring, and the handbook so HR was easy to manage
Embedded HR Partnership
We worked as an extension of the team, offering clear guidance and reducing the day to day burden on leadership.
Support During Change
We coached leaders through high stakes changes, strengthening confidence and decision making.
THE RESULTS
HR became clear and manageable. Leadership gained confidence and the company is now positioned to grow with the right structure in place.
HR Clarity
HR became clear and manageable, removing the constant burden from leadership.
Leadership Confidence
The C suite gained confidence handling compliance, hiring, and tough people decisions.
Ready for Growth
With strong systems in place, the company is prepared to grow with intention.
SUMMARY
PeopleWise transformed HR into a steady, reliable foundation rather than a source of stress. With our guidance, the company gained peace of mind, stronger leadership confidence, and a clearer path forward.
Company
Snack Video
Location
Minneapolis, MN
Industry
Video Game
Company Size
20-25
Timeframe
First Year
Client Quote
“HR for small companies like ours is like a big bowl of spaghetti, it’s got layers of criss-crossing pieces that are a bit slippery and hard to organize and get perfectly in place. It can be overwhelming, PeopleWise has helped us manage this big bowl of spaghetti and take it from something complicated and hard to swallow into something easy to digest. Taking a large amount of mental energy off our plate and letting us focus on our core business.
Angela on the PeopleWise team came in with quick fixes to get us on track and immediately started building transformative policies and structure to solve our biggest headaches. With their help we’ve seen the confidence of our C-suite grow as business owners. Navigating complex compliance and hiring issues now feels manageable, which has strengthened our ability to take on larger challenges as the company continues to grow.
Beyond the structural overhauls with compliance, payroll, hiring, and the employee handbook, we can’t emphasize enough how valuable it was to have Angela with us during our more tumultuous days. Angela shepherded us with patience and grace and helped coach us to be as professional and constructive as possible during restructuring, an especially difficult high stakes time.
The experience and strategic thinking that Angela has brought to our team has not only helped us handle things as they come up, as they always do, but also be more intentional with staff and how we operate our business. She has fostered a more strategic mindset in our team and has helped us think more proactively about employee development, org structure, and the long term well being of our team and ourselves.
Challenges that once felt overwhelming now feel far more manageable. We have greater peace of mind knowing that, whatever questions or issues come up, there is a clear and thoughtful path forward with Angela’s guidance. Many times we’ve been able to find solutions and Angela’s perspective and expertise has helped contextualize insights and different areas of thought that we wouldn’t even of considered.
We’re especially grateful for Angela’s accessibility and the steady, composed presence she brings to every conversation. Her perspective consistently helps us uncover solutions, offering insights and considerations we would not have identified on our own.
Peoplewise is now a seamless piece of our team that I don’t see us being able to grow without. They are like a whole HR department that is simply plugged into our business and has made it a more complete and well oiled machine that has fundamentally changed our capacity to run a good business in every sense of the word.”
– Kyle Kehrwald, Snack Video