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Kronos Makes Workforce Management Easier Than Ever With Workforce Central 7
CHELMSFORD, Mass. --(Business Wire)--
Kronos
Incorporated, the global leader in delivering workforce management
solutions in the cloud, today unveiled Workforce
Central® 7, a groundbreaking release designed to make
workforce management easier than ever. Already recognized as the
industry's most intuitive workforce management solution, Workforce
Central 7 expands on the unrivaled Kronos (News - Alert) user experience with hundreds
of enhancements to further simplify the day-to-day lives of managers and
employees.
News Facts
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Managing in the moment made easier - Today's workforce demands
a system that delivers key workforce information whenever and wherever
it's needed. Workforce Central 7 makes this possible through its
innovative approach to managing in the moment. Highlights include:
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Intelligent, suite-wide search capabilities that instantly direct
managers to the people, schedules, exceptions, skills, and
certifications that they are looking for;
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More than 50 new priority-based alerts that deliver real-time
notifications to multiple devices with one-click navigation to
actionable content;
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Expanded employee alerts to keep employees informed and free them
from contacting their manager with routine questions;
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Enhanced staffing capabilities that make it easier to transfer
employees between locations, departments, units, or stores with a
single click;
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A new "pinning" feature that enables managers to select and
prioritize only the locations they deem most important;
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Schedule changes and postings, accrual balance updates, vacation
approvals, and timecard status changes can now be instantly
delivered to the employee's device of choice be it smartphone,
desktop, or Kronos InTouch®
time clock;
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Enterprise-wide single sign-on and stronger security for Workforce
Mobile make the industry-leading solution even more effective
and easier to use; and
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Richer contextual navigation across the suite makes finding what
you need easier and faster.
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Scheduling made easier - Best-of-breed scheduling solutions
from Kronos have been made even easier to use through a host of
customer-driven enhancements, including:
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Configurable schedule views that make it easier for managers to
display more employees simultaneously and make faster staffing
decisions;
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Unique user interface improvements that support enhanced
scrolling, panning, and collapsing of schedule data based on
individual preferences;
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A new calendar view that employees can use to enter their
availability and shift preferences;
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Improved shift-swapping workflows that require less manager
involvement and increase employee flexibility;
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Shift requests can be initiated from a new calendar view and
directed to only those employees who meet the eligibility
requirements;
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A new schedule-to-skill feature that makes it easier than ever to
ensure that each job is covered with the right employee skill mix
based on anticipated labor demand;
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The ability to track and consider proficiency levels when planning
for the right staffing mix;
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Even faster, easier, and more precise individual store budgeting
and planning;
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"Smart operations" enables managers to create multiple locations
by copying or moving existing locations - along with the
associated configuration rules and option sets - from the
organizational and forecast maps; and
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"Quick actions" in the scheduling widget allows users to rapidly
edit and update schedules.
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Labor costing made easier - Workforce Central 7 delivers a host
of enhancements to help organizations control their labor costs in the
face of shrinking budgets and global competition:
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New labor views make it easier to understand the status of every
grant, project, or work order that is underway within an
organization;
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An enhanced activity view with drill-down and roll-up capabilities
provides incredible insight into the status and cost of various
work activities;
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New activity queries help employees quickly identify projects,
grants, and activities that are relevant to their workday and
easily allocate worked time to these projects via their timecard;
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Employers that elect to have their staff work on multiple
jobs/assignments with different supervisors can now require each
supervisor to sign off on the employee's hours for greater
accountability and more accurate job costing;
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Employees can be assigned a quick pick list of departments they
can make transfers to, making it simple and easy to allocate
worked time to the appropriate department;
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A new version of the Project View Timecard allows users to
customize their layout in a variety of ways including
pre-populating commonly used pay codes to make time entry quick
and easy;
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Workforce
Analytics™ now includes a core dashboard and
pre-defined reports that can be modified and easily configured to
meet a customer's specific needs; and
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New metrics and key performance indicators help customers
transform timekeeping data into strategic insight that can be used
to improve performance and results with visibility to performance
against targets, as well as the projected outcomes for labor hours
and labor costs.
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Global deployments made easier - Successfully deployed in more
than 100 countries, Workforce Central is the gold standard for
multi-nationals who require a centralized workforce management system
for managing their operations around the globe. Workforce Central 7
further builds on this success by introducing:
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Three new standard languages including Italian, Korean, and Polish;
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A host of functionality for Brazil and France, two countries that
have some of the world's most complex labor practices;
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Additional pay rules for contract-based employees;
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New labor rule extensions to accommodate region-specific overtime
laws in several countries including China;
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Enhanced password security; and
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Full- or half-day time-off requests that are essential to ensure
appropriate staffing levels in geographies that manage labor in
days versus hours.
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Affordable Care Act made easier - As organizations prepare to
implement compliance strategies for the Affordable
Care Act (ACA), they need to optimize their full-time/part-time
mix, gain insight to their ACA "look-back" period, and continually
monitor their full- and part-time status, Kronos has introduced a wide
variety of capabilities designed to make compliance with the act easy
and painless.
Supporting Quotes
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Aron Ain, chief executive officer, Kronos
"Kronos is laser
focused on delivering the most innovative and intuitive workforce
management solutions in the world. Workforce Central 7 is a product of
the expertise and vision of Kronos staff guided by input, advice, and
direction from the largest user base of workforce management solutions
in the world. From managing in the moment via your device of choice,
to finding value in big data, to helping organizations effectively
manage a global workforce and all its complexities with ease,
Workforce Central 7 delivers on all fronts."
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Joel Hauff, assistant vice president, student affairs, University
of Arizona
"Workforce Central 7 takes the concept of mobile
management to a new level. Even more tasks that managers used to
complete at a desktop can now be done in-the-moment and on-the-fly. We
are also really excited about the enhanced scheduling capabilities
which seem to be custom-made for our environment. With the addition of
multiple assignments into the core product, this is a powerful new
version of Workforce Central that adds tremendous value."
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Stephan Millard, vice president and research director, Ventana
Research
"Our research shows that the need to better assign
goals and tasks to workers is a priority to more than half (56
percent) of organizations. Supporting these needs with a workforce
management solution that is both innovative and easy to use has become
a top priority. Kronos Workforce Central 7 delivers on both
dimensions."
Supporting Resources
About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos is the global leader in delivering workforce management solutions
in the cloud. Tens of thousands of organizations in more than 100
countries - including more than half of the Fortune 1000® -
use Kronos to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve
workforce productivity. Learn more about Kronos industry-specific time
and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring,
and labor analytics applications at www.kronos.com.
Kronos: Workforce Innovation That Works™.
© 2013 Kronos Incorporated. All rights reserved. Kronos,
Workforce Central, and InTouch are registered trademarks and Workforce
Analytics and Workforce Innovation That Works are trademarks of Kronos
Incorporated or a related company. All other trademarks are property of
their respective owners.
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