Future Focus is an Early Childhood Education (ECE) organisation based in Tauranga, operating six centres and employing over 100 staff. Office Manager and HR Specialist Laura Dargaville is responsible for the multi-site company’s HR administration - including managing employment agreements and compliance documentation. MyHR has transformed their HR processes, saving time and providing expert support to ensure they do right by their people.
Organisation: Future Focus Early Childhood Education
Industry: Education and childcare
Location: Tauranga, New Zealand
Team size: 100+ employees
Manual processes, signature bottlenecks, and compliance risks.
Before MyHR, Future Focus relied entirely on manual HR systems. They prepared every employment agreement by hand, and making sure all contracts and company policies met New Zealand employment regulations was a time-consuming task. Coordinating employee signatures was also a major bottleneck, as contracts across multiple centres had to be signed, sent, returned, and cross-checked without a dedicated HR support system.
For an ECE organisation with so many staff, the administrative burden was significant. The constant concern was the risk of falling short on compliance while managing the complex requirements of a multi-centre workforce.
Future Focus engaged MyHR to transition their employment agreements and HR documentation into a streamlined, digital-first system. The platform provides a complete suite of HR management tools, all backed by the advisory support of local HR experts. For Future Focus, MyHR handles every stage of the employee lifecycle:
Electronic signatures that allow employment agreements to be signed and returned in seconds.
Centralised management of employment documentation, tools, and employee data.
An HR system built specifically for New Zealand’s employment landscape.
On-demand guidance from a team of NZ HR experts on any employment matter.
Secure records for critical industry requirements, such as vulnerable sector checks.
For Laura, MyHR provides invaluable time-savings as well as an expert, external perspective, helping the business make informed decisions for its operations.
"You can't even put a price on the access that you have to the knowledge and the people at the other end to be able to support you to make the best choices for your organisation as well as your employees."
— Laura Dargaville, Office Manager, Future Focus Early Childhood Education
For Laura and the Future Focus team, MyHR delivers on three levels:
Time efficiency: Freeing up time previously spent on manual processes and admin.
Confidence: Knowing the business is doing right by its employees through compliant, professionally-managed contracts and procedures.
Focused energy: Enabling the team to put more energy towards the centres and the children, which is what matters most.
"It’s freed up time so I can take on more, which is amazing for us."
The best investment you can make for your people.
For a growing education organisation, the combination of digital simplicity and real human support has been the difference between administrative stress and getting it right. For Laura and the team, the fact that MyHR is owned and operated in New Zealand is the icing on the cake.
"It's hands down just the best investment you'll ever make. MyHR makes it real easy."
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