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Kronos Doubles Down on HR Innovation in Workforce Management
LAS VEGAS --(Business Wire)--
Over the past 18 months, Kronos
Incorporated has made significant investments in its Workforce
Central and Workforce Ready solutions to drive innovative features
specifically designed for the benefit of human resources (HR). These
enhancements to HR and operations functionality help streamline tedious
processes, improve productivity, maintain compliance, and improve
employee engagement for enterprises and SMBs.
News Facts
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Workforce
Central 7, the industry-leading suite designed to make
workforce management easier than ever, added several features with the
HR professional in mind, including:
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A new user interface designed to be more intuitive
and responsive with a modernized look and feel that improves and
empowers self-service functionality; provides easier access to
content; and drives productivity improvements through automation
in a more usable fashion.
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Advanced search and detailed query functionality to provide
HR professionals with access to all employee record content - such
as title, department, benefits information, compensation, and
absence information - at the touch of a button across the entire
product suite.
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The marriage of social
collaboration and workforce management that provides
employees and managers with a forum to collaborate and streamline
operations within the Workforce Central suite. HR professionals
can now leverage social collaboration tools as a way to motivate
and recognize employees, as well as drive increased employee
engagement through open communication and creation of social
workplace competitions.
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Mobile
access for talent acquisition that delivers an
automatically optimized view to job applicants' mobile devices to
improve the candidate experience through ease of use and on-the-go
convenience.
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Innovations to activities
tracking functionality specifically designed for the manufacturing,
public
sector, and professional
services industries provides HR with electronic data points
for performance reviews and/or to build future best-fit candidate
profiles.
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Improved, intuitive, and interactive reporting for HR and
payroll provides instant access and visibility to standardized and
accurate data, alerts, and dashboards with a comprehensive list of
day-to-day activities.
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The latest
release of Kronos Workforce Ready, which delivers
enterprise-class workforce management solutions in the cloud to small
and midsize businesses (SMBs), has evolved from a core HR and payroll
product to provide HR professionals with a single system employee
record from pre-hire to retire that eliminates administrative tasks
and provides quick access to information for both employees and
administrators with new features including:
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Benefits management, more robust standard reports, and new
employee self-service options to ensure accuracy and ease of
use while making enrollment less time-consuming, especially during
open enrollment.
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A complete compensation management add-on module that helps
HR and department managers work closely together to plan, budget,
and model merit increases and allocations.
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Out-of-the-box workflows for new hire, termination,
re-hire, promotions, demotions, transfers, and benefit enrollments
as well as a configurable workflow engine that enables consistent
policy execution and more efficient processes. Workflow timelines
are also available with the ability to define customer filters
within the workflow process.
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Customized, automated onboarding to speed time to
productivity with checklists, timelines, workflows, and the
ability to input unique company documentation for paperless HR.
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Enterprise-class recruitment with a personalized online
applicant view and tools to easily work with hiring managers to
streamline the hiring process.
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Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliance management visibility
for benefit eligibility as the Employer Shared Responsibility
deadline rapidly approaches, including notifications for employees
nearing full-time status that can be mapped to affordable
healthcare plans.
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Leave management enhancements complete with ability to add
unique company forms and drive better decisions.
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Workforce
Ready Marketplace provides a portal for HR
professionals to access additional Kronos (News - Alert) and third-party
applications right from the Workforce Ready interface, including
Workforce Talent Acquisition Express.
Supporting Quotes
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Aron Ain, chief executive officer, Kronos
"Human resources professionals have played a major role in the evolution
of the workforce management landscape, and we're working closely with HR
users to ensure our product innovations make their days more efficient
and effective. With continued enhancements to Workforce Central and
Workforce Ready, Kronos helps organizations large and small move the
needle in a positive direction in areas that matter most to HR:
onboarding, employee engagement, benefits administration, employee
turnover, leave management, and talent acquisition."
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Mollie Lombardi, vice president and principal analyst, Brandon Hall
Group's Workforce Management practice
"The opportunity to drive performance through talent and the risks
associated with not managing it well have never been greater. Keeping up
with compliance and regulatory needs, while also building engagement and
improving performance, is a critical challenge. Organizations of all
sizes need tools that help them deploy, manage, measure, and report on
their workforce efficiently and effectively. And they need both the data
and the insight to make better decisions every day. Addressing these
critical needs is at the core of the enhancements Kronos is bringing to
market."
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Laurie McCabe, cofounder and partner, SMB Group
"Kronos has made a concerted effort to not only bring the power of
enterprise-class workforce management software to SMBs across the world,
but to also empower HR professionals with critical tools to make their
jobs easier, more efficient, and, above all, more impactful. By
delivering talent, compensation management, better self-service and
usability, and actionable reports through the cloud, Kronos continues to
empower SMB HR managers."
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Linda Pintor, vice president of human resources, Magnetek (News - Alert)
"We've been a Workforce Central user since 2006 and the solution has
evolved to provide increased value that HR departments depend upon. The
new user interface is sleek and more intuitive, which benefits employees
and managers alike, while features such as the improved search tools and
impressive reporting capabilities of Workforce Central 7 help HR pros
keep their finger on the pulse of the entire organization."
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Norma Prisock, HR director, The Texas Book Company
"Since Workforce Ready is managed in the Kronos Cloud, our organization
immediately takes advantage of the latest and greatest features
following each release. The recent fall release continues to improve the
user experience while providing critical HR tools that enhance our
processes throughout the entire employee lifecycle. As a midsize
business with limited HR and IT resources, having this information at
our fingertips with the ability to generate meaningful reports is
critical to our organization."
Supporting Resources
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This announcement was made from KronosWorks, the world's largest
workforce information exchange. KronosWorks is taking place this week
in Las Vegas.
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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.
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