[September 02, 2014] |
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Asure Software Offers Five Time and Labor Management Tips to Help Organizations Support Today's Connected Workforce
AUSTIN, Texas --(Business Wire)--
As the country honors and recognizes workers nationwide for Labor Day
this week, Asure
Software (Nasdaq: ASUR), a leading provider of workplace management
solutions, offers five tips to help managers and business leaders who
still rely on spreadsheets, forms and manual process for scheduling and
time reporting functions -- despite the pervasive use of smartphones,
tablets, laptops, etc. by nearly all workers -- to enhance workforce
agility, productivity and engagement, while optimizing their
organization's workforce spend and improving profits.
"Progressive organizations are seeing many strategic operational
advantages, even imperatives, to leverage technologies in new and better
ways for enhanced workforce agility and productivity, while enabling
managers and business leaders to track employees more effectively,
protect profit loss related to time fraud, and accurately plan and
manage staffing," said Steven
Rodriguez, Asure Software COO, who outlined these tips:
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Automate processes: Timecards, paper timesheets submitted to
supervisors in-person or via fax, work schedules posted on bulletin
boards, PTO forms left in a manager's in-box - these are all things of
the past. Today's user-friendly TLM systems consolidate these
processes online, eliminating issues with illegible entries, lost or
misplaced forms, data re-entry errors and duplication of efforts, and
the risk of manual errors that can occur in this process, and help
organizations manage
regulatory compliance requirements that are prone to costly
errors. And, all data is processed and reported in real-time,
eliminating delays and guesswork.
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Leverage employees' personal
technologies: Most workers are highly connected to technology
24x7 via their own mobile devices, meaning nearly all are "agile
orkers" to varying degrees. Enabling them to access work systems via
their own familiar technologies helps to enhance their engagement and
work satisfaction. Organizations can leverage employees' connectivity
and help to make their lives easier and more efficient by enabling
them to conduct self-service tasks online, such as checking PTO
balances, submitting schedule availability or timesheets, searching
and signing up for extra shifts, etc. at their convenience.
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Move to the Cloud: Cloud-based TLM solutions free employees
from the office walls and work, enabling them to access scheduling
systems at their convenience with their own technologies. Using the
Cloud also ensures that all employees throughout the organization,
regardless of their location, are using the same technology - a key
benefit for organization whose employees are increasingly mobile and
global. For HR and payroll managers, the
Cloud's benefits also include assurance that technology is always
current and less reliance on over-stretched corporate IT staff.
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Explore Emerging Biometric and Geolocation Technologies: TLM
mobile apps make it convenient and fast for mobile workers and those
whose work involves time off-site to log their time and location by
enabling their mobile devices to function as a timeclock fueled by
selfies. Facial recognition and geolocation technologies combine to
quickly verify the user's identity and location, enabling supervisors
to ensure the right people are in the right place at the right time,
and helping the organization to prevent time fraud - which can account
for up to five percent of payroll costs.
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Optimize Scheduling: TLM scheduling systems now offer many
useful functionalities that spreadsheets can't even touch, empowering
employees to better track and manage their schedules. For instance,
employees who want to pick up extra hours can go online to look for
open shifts and bid on them. Supervisors have visual dashboards to
quickly check availabilities, as well as robust data to optimize
staffing and reallocate staff, as needed. If they have shift spot to
fill quickly they can push out notices to employees who are eligible
to cover.
"Traditional paper-based and manual time and labor tools are cumbersome,
error-prone, and do not provide the conveniences, efficiencies and
flexibilities that workers have come to expect with today's
technologies," said Rodriguez. "Most workers have and use their own
technologies to plan and organize their lives, and they appreciate and
quickly adapt to solutions that enable them to use their own familiar
technologies."
For more information on time and labor management tips, best practices
and technologies, visit Asure's free Executive Briefing series at http://www.asuresoftware.com/asure-force/asureforce-time-software/attendance-tracking-software/asureforce-time-labor-management-executive-briefings
About Asure Software Asure
Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASUR) headquartered in Austin, Texas, offers
cloud-based time and labor management and workspace management solutions
that help clients bring space and time together. Asure serves
approximately 6,000 clients worldwide and currently offers two main
product lines: AsureSpace™
workplace management solutions enable organizations to maximize the ROI
of their real estate, and AsureForce®
time and labor management solutions deliver efficient management of
human resource and payroll processes. For more information, please visit www.asuresoftware.com.
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