Put Down the Technology and Step Away from the Keyboard

Monday, 11. 24. 2008  –  Category: All Blog Posts, HR Technology, Management Tips, Workforce Software

Our latest whitepaper, Empowering the Hourly Workforce Through Enterprise Workforce Management, comes to us courtesy of our board member Tim Lett of the Axsium Group.   Tim addresses the importance of engaging employees as part of the implementation and ongoing use of workforce management technology.
Tim’s company helps organizations deploy a wide range of workforce management technology [...]

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Goodbye HR Tech, Hello KronosWorks 2008! 

Saturday, 10. 18. 2008  –  Category: All Blog Posts, HR Technology, Workforce Software

This has been a very busy week – Dallas Sunday through Tuesday for our annual Sales and Service kickoff and Chicago Wednesday through Friday for the HR Technology show. I wrote this post sitting at Gate K8 at O’Hare waiting for a flight to Orlando where I’ll spend the next 5 days at our annual [...]

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Why We Need Skype Now More than Ever

Tuesday, 09. 30. 2008  –  Category: All Blog Posts, HR Technology, Management Tips, Work Life Balance, Workforce Software

Perhaps many of you have been Skype-ing for a while, but I’m a recent convert.  I mentioned in one of my first posts that I’m a big fan of technology and often an early adopter.  Skype’s been around for a while in the UK, but only recently began advertising in the US.  I’d heard about [...]

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The Summertime Crunch

Saturday, 05. 31. 2008  –  Category: Absence Management, All Blog Posts, Management Tips, Work Life Balance, Workforce Software

Our latest workforce survey reveals that 69% of US workers polled plan to take off time between Memorial Day and Labor Day.  This obviously presents challenges for employers who seek to keep their operations running smoothly throughout these peak vacation months.
According to our board member Steve Hunt, what employers should NOT do is discourage employees [...]

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The New Industrial Revolution

Monday, 05. 19. 2008  –  Category: All Blog Posts, Employee Retention, Labor Market, Workforce Software

Photo Credit: ClawzCTR
There was a recent article in IndustryWeek, “How Ceradyne Increased Productivity through Effective Labor Management” that raised some questions for me. This article was co-authored by one of my colleagues, Gregg Gordon, and explains how Ceradyne has used Kronos solutions to optimize their workforce productivity. Ceradyne is using a broad [...]

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