After more than twenty years defending California employers, I have seen a consistent pattern: even companies with sophisticated systems struggle with one of the most fundamental compliance obligations in California employment law—maintaining, accessing, and analyzing employee time records. These challenges are not merely operational inconveniences. They routinely lead to unnecessary legal exposure, inflated PAGA penalties, and missed opportunities to extract meaningful business insights. Scaled Comp was built to solve these exact problems.
Here are the five reasons I founded Scaled Comp:
1. Employers were struggling just to keep and store basic time records.
California law requires employers to maintain accurate employee time and payroll records, yet many organizations still rely on systems that scatter data across PDFs, screenshots, or outdated exports. Time records were difficult to store in an organized manner, hard to preserve over time, and even harder to retrieve years later—particularly when litigation arose. What should have been a basic compliance function was becoming a persistent liability.
2. Accessing time records during litigation or audits was far more difficult than it should be.
When a claim was filed, employers were often scrambling: Where are the records? Are they complete? Are they readable? Too often, the answer was no. I watched clients spend weeks hunting down files, reconstructing data, and manually preparing materials just to respond to a lawsuit...
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