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by Alan Alper, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:54:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Workforce Central Release 5.1 also includes a new self-service kiosk that enables employees to track approved times off, vacations and company leave policies as well as apply for preferred work shifts. |
Kronos Inc. today unveiled a major upgrade to its workforce management application suite that, among numerous enhancements, empower top managers to more effectively track and prevent employee absenteeism, schedule workforce shifts that meet business requirements and map labor requirements with worker availability and preferences. Workforce Central Release 5.1 is more than a mere "dot" release, according to the vendor, which claims it contains hundreds of functional and usability enhancements as well as new programs that extend Kronos' broad suite of human resources, payroll, scheduling and time and labor applications. Key to the upgrade are absence management applications that provide visibility into absence patterns as well as tools to record and track workforce absence, which in many shops is a manual process that requires access to a variety of systems, noted Clay Ritchey, Kronos' product marketing manager, in an interview. Absenteeism is a major problem, according to Kronos, which conducted research and found that 15% of payroll is spent on employees who are not working -- be it scheduled but untracked time off or unscheduled time off with the employee's whereabouts unknown. Having automated polices to manage absenteeism consistently and fairly can help companies reclaim a small but significant portion of those losses and can create documentation necessary to discipline abusers, Ritchey noted. [Click to continue] |
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