Time and Attendance Blog, Workforce Management Software

Are You Utilizing The Skills Of Your Most Valuable Assets?

Hiring good employees is no easy task. Just think of amount of time spent, with phone screen interviews, behavioral personality survey, office interviews and more. Once hired these employees become your greatest asset. And, the best way to start these employees off is on the “right foot” with the right technology. With our Workforce Management Solution, you get tools and technology that help you manage all aspects of the time and attendance experience – saving you time and money while improving employee producitivity and increasing revenue.

With ATS Workforce Management Solution you get:

Unified Solution– With ATS Cloud-Based Workforce Management platform you have one consolidated system for multiple time and attendance processes. ATS Workforce Management Software helps you re-imagine employee time tracking capabilities. Our award-winning Software as a Service (SaaS) application in the cloud is integrated with mobile, HR, payroll, ERP, CRM and a range of analytic capabilities to help you extrapolate the right data, at the right time.

Eradicate Overtime Costs- Get instant alerts for employees that are approaching overtime, so you can make appropriate changes before overtime hours becomes a burden on your company’s profits.

Capture Attendance-Collect employee time with a advanced biometric time clocks. Employee biometric time clocks are highly effective at preventing “buddy punching.” You also have the option of choosing from a range of other data collection devices, including; proximity time clocks, online time sheets, magnetic and bar code stripe time clocks, faceScan and fingerScan time clocks.

Self-Service- With the self-service portal, employees can request time off and supervisors can approve or deny depending on availability. The system can be set up to send an instant alert to a supervisor about an employee request.

Real-Time Visibility- ATS Workforce Management Solution provides end to end visibility and plethora of powerful analytics to help you zero in on employee data. The solution encompasses full blown drill-down capabilities for detailed business intelligence to help keep payroll costs in line with forecast.

The talent you acquire and retain is a key ingredient to your company’s long term success-so, with this in mind you should make sure you are giving your people the right tools to achieve maximum productivity.

To learn more, go to our website or you can download a demo.

Analytics, Employee Time Clocks, Workforce Management Software

Will This System Really Help Our Organization?

April 28th, 2015 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Absence Management | Employee Self Service | Time and Attendance Blog, Workforce Management Software | Time Management Solutions - (Comments Off)

Our sales reps have to answer this question often enough that they have the answer at the tip of their tongue. It’s always a resounding yes followed up with examples of how other companies are using the technology. However, the question remains, why would any company deny itself the use of cloud-based time and attendance solution to increase business processes when it has so many benefits?

An article titled “Convincing Skeptical Employees to Adopt New Technology” written by Rebecca Knight for Harvard Business Review, reads in part; “Bringing new technology and tools into your organization can increase productivity, boost sales, and help you make better, faster decisions. But getting every employee on board is often a challenge. What can you do to increase early and rapid adoption?”

The article espouses the virtue of technology with a fresh look on the best ways to get colleagues and employees alike to buy-in. We selected three paragraphs from the article and in no particular order, they are:

State your case “Persuading your team to adopt a new technology requires putting forth a valid effort. For example, if using CRM, will it enable salespeople to meet their quotas faster — which gives them the opportunity to make more money? Or increase productivity in a way that reduces weekend work?

Customize training
“Show that you are investing time in learning the new system. Some employees might prefer an online training session; others might need a bit more handholding and support in the form of a personal coach.”

Make it routine
If, for instance, you’ve recently introduced a new sales-tracking technology, start asking for weekly updates on the numbers. Of course, employees could still use provide the information without using the new system, but it would be more cumbersome and time-consuming.

The bottom-line, the use of technology and its adoption, in large part, have to do with how the benefits are explained to employees. If, as the article suggests, employees are told at the outset “what’s in it for them, there is a greater likelihood of them using the system. What will also be more impactful, is if employees are trained properly and then given reminded about using the system on a daily basis. Change takes time and since we are all wired not to accept change, it’s best to use the “carrot” approach instead of the “stick” when adopting new technology such as cloud-based time and attendance solution.

To learn more about ATS time and attendance system and training methodology, go to our website. You can also register for one of our monthly product demonstrations and to speak to an account executive, call us at 866.294.2467.

CRM, Time and Attendance System, Training

ATS TimeWork Helps The Energy Industry Control Processes And Reduce Payroll Costs

The energy industry is going through a transformative period, and is facing increasing complexity and greater demands, which is forcing companies to operate in remote and, at times, hostile environments. And if that was not bad enough, the high cost and difficulty of extracting energy is steadily increasing. While trying to overcome all these barriers, the energy industry also has to provide return on investment to its shareholders. So how do you streamline costs and remain competitive?

ATS leading-edge cloud-based time and attendance solution can help oil and gas companies optimize workforce productivity for maximum return on investment. By leveraging our intuitive workforce management solution, companies can streamline payroll cost and mitigate financial risk, improve attendance and provide a rapid return on investment to shareholders.

ATS TimeWork For The Energy Industry is an award-winning solution that delivers real-time reporting analytic activities that helps to govern and automate the entire process from employee punch to pay. The pay rules library and flexibility allows for 100% automation of rules without costly changes to core code. Hours and wage rule compliance is consistent and automated with alerts when a threshold for violation is approached – providing proactive reconciliation. The solution goes beyond a traditional time and attendance system to provide job costing, accrual benefits, overtime equalization and data integration with; payroll, enterprise resource planning (ERP), human resources management system (HRMS), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and more.

Managing a workforce is no easy feat. Today’s growing energy companies require a comprehensive, integrated suite of time and attendance tools. With ATS Time and Attendance, you will be introduce a wide range of the industry’s most compelling cloud-based technology that Now you can proactively help control labour costs, by optimizing your most important resources to drive expansion and profitability throughout your energy related business.

To learn more, join our Time and Attendance LinkedIn group or view a demonstration from our website. ATS has monthly webinars for our user groups and potential customers.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), LinkedIn, Payroll, Time and Attendance

How ATS TimeWork Workforce Management Solution Can Help Your Business Grow

The priority for every company is to grow. This means; grow sales, revenue, exports and, at the same time, optimize workforce productivity. The ultimate goal in all of this is to provide a solid return on investment to shareholders. Trying to accomplish all this requires investment in technology, innovation and updating product lines. It is therefore critical that today’s business have the right tools in place to eliminate inefficiencies. By getting rid of paper-timesheets and streamlining workflows across the business, you utilize resources in other areas and produce the capital necessary to re-invest and generate business growth.

How ATS TimeWork Workforce Management Solution Can Help Your Business Grow

ATS TimeWork Workforce Management Solution removes software road-blocks and offers companies a robust, yet easy-to-use, time and attendance system that will undoubtedly, increase business efficiency and reduce costs on all levels. Just imagine being able to extrapolate data whenever you need it, from any device, anywhere in the world? And that’s not all, using the latest cloud-computing technology, ATS TimeWork Workforce Management Solution enables you to collect, manage and process employee attendance more effectively. This is your chance to move beyond manual paper-based time sheets and old fashion clunky time clocks to an updated time and attendance system that will keep your shareholders at bay.

Whether your company is growing exponentially or refining business processes, it’s never too late to take control of your company’s profitability. The many features of ATS TimeWork Workforce Management Solution includes; benefit accruals, workforce planning, budgeting and forecasting, employee self-service, business analytics, ERP, HR and payroll data integration-accompanied by a role based executive dashboard that complements a plethora of time and attendance features.

Ultimately businesses need to ensure that they are always on a upwards trajectory of growth and part of ensuring this is by having the right workforce management solution in place.

To learn more about ATS TimeWork Workforce Management Solution go to our website. You can also download a demonstration or contact an account executive at 866.294.2467.

Benefit Accruals, Business Analytics, Employee Self Service, Time and Attendance, Workforce Planning

Five Steps To A Successful Time And Attendance Implementation

April 14th, 2015 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Benefit Accruals | Time and Attendance Software | Workforce Management Solutions - (Comments Off)

The notion that all time and attendance solutions are the same and that they will meet the needs of every organization is one of the reasons why some implementation fail. Your company is unique and chances are, the time and attendance solution you select, will require configuration changes that reflects your business requirements.

More often than not, mistakes happen during the search process. For example, your research person should be someone within your organization who is familiar with the company’s work policies and compliance rules. If your search committee includes someone from the HR or the payroll department, you have will, in all likelihood increase your chances of success in finding the right vendor. Conversely, if your time and attendance search is being lead by IT person who knows nothing about your payroll and other compliance rules, it’s highly unlikely they would know the answers about overtime calculation or holiday pay. The rise of cloud-based time and attendance has minimized the role of IT significantly over the last several years. A note of caution, this is not to suggest you should be involve your IT personnel, you should-we are suggesting they should be part of your project team and not the only one researching a time and attendance solution.

Here are five steps that can lead to a successful implementation of your time and attendance solution:

Assessment- Set aside a realistic budget, but also remain open-minded to stretching it a little, if you find the right solution. Equally important, be honest about your company’s list of requirements. If you are not sure what your needs are talk to other departmentl managers about their requirements, as it relates to employee attendance. Your list of requirements should include some of the following: business challenges, workflows, departmental needs, and overall reporting requirements. Some companies prefer to leave some things off their list, when talking to a vendor, hoping this will help them find the cheapest solution. There is nothing wrong with trying to find the cheapest solution, as long as you are prepared to “get what you pay for” when heading down this route. Most vendors will tell you if they can or cannot meet your needs based on your budget.

Selection Process- This stage is one of the most challenging. We suggest you ask businesses like yours, and but more importantly other companies that are outside of your industry. The reason here is to figure out how flexible the proposed solution really is. Assess the company’s list of references, and ask for honest answers.

Implementation- the old adage “failing to plan is planning to fail” holds true when it comes to time and attendance implementation. Make sure the vendor plans to; configure, install and optimize the solution for your business operations. Remember your company is unique, don’t worry about the type of system that the “Jones” are using. This about your company and your specific requirements. Also remain open-minded to the fact that project plans do and can change, and that major changes can affect your budget and so, you should plan in accordance.

Training- Once the system is configured and designed to your specification, this is the all important next step, training for functional users. Devote time to training so your managerial staff and other employees will use the system to its full potential. Make sure to schedule regular training so that managerial employees are using the software in the most efficient manner.

Support- After the system is up and running, remain in close communication with your vendor to make sure you are getting the maximum value from the time and attendance system and that its operating at peak efficiency.

Finally, achieving a successful time and attendance implementation is doable. For additional tips on implementation go to our website and sign up for a demonstration. You can reach us by phone at 866.294.2467.

Five Steps To A Successful Time And Attendance Implementation

Cloud Based Time and Attendance, Human Resources, LinkedIn, Payroll, Twitter

The ROI Of A Workforce Management Solution

The classic approach to a return on investment (ROI) of a workforce management solution has always been analyzing the costs vs. benefits. And, on paper while that is a great strategy, the quickest way to achieve that ROI is to start using the system after it’s implemented. What good is a workforce management solution if it’s only being used by a fraction of your employees? It is important to understand that ROI comes from the business process improvement that’s inherent within workforce management solution.

The business process improvements within ATS Workforce Management Solution include:

Cost Reduction – Data integration of employee hours into payroll, ERP and HR key helps production and senior managers quickly identify opportunities for improvements and cost reductions.

Cloud-Base Platform- That makes for a wonderful experience across mobile platforms, desktops and complemented with self-service access to employee workforce schedules, attendance, and time and attendance information.

Improved Efficiency-as your company uses ATS TimeWork, you begin to notice a reduction in administrative overhead and total cost of ownership. In addition, ATS cloud-based time and attendance scalable solution integrates with a variety data collection devices.

Reduced Workforce Complexity- ATS TimeWork automated time and attendance enhances workforce compliance with benefit accruals, calculation of overtime pay and statutory holidays, and helps you keep track of; late arrivals, early departures, or unexpected absences.

Built-In Regulatory Compliance Rules- for all provinces, states and regions in Canada, the United States, South America and Europe.

In conclusion, by using ATS Workforce Management Solution as soon as it has been deployed and, at the same time, encouraging your team to do so, you will start to quickly realize the benefits.

To learn more, go to our website, where you can gain access to brochures, live demonstrations or request for more information.

Attendance, Canada, Employee Scheduling, Payroll, Workforce Management Software

Benefits Of Cloud-Computing In The World Of Business

Cloud-based apps are popular because they offer a superior advantage over computer-based software. Some of the benefits of cloud-based apps include; the accessing of information anywhere using any device with an Internet connection. And for many consumers who are proponents of everything cloud, the ability to store music, games, documents, photos and other files through the cloud is a dream come true. By contrast, the business world, cautious by nature was a little apprehensive about cloud computing. And some, rightfully so, questioned if the pros outweighed the cons in a cloud-based time and attendance. To answer the question about the pros and cons of cloud-computing, you don’t have to look took far to see that many of today’s businesses, are embracing cloud-based time and attendance like never before.

Benefits Of Cloud-Computing In The World Of Business

One of ATS largest customers, in manufacturing healthcare, with 7 locations across Canada and the United States said it best;

“I wish our company had a more open mind to using a web-based time tracking system before. It’s only after implementing the ATS TimeWork that we began to see the benefits. Our employees no longer bombard their supervisors and our HR department with questions about time-off requests, scheduling and confirmation of hours worked prior to be paid, because, they can now do it online. Our financial controller is happy, because she can access the reports she wants at anytime and the best part of this system, is that our payroll department is no longer taking 2 and a half days to complete payroll. With 1500 employees our payroll and benefits personnel was spending too much time with our old-fashioned time and attendance system that could not keep up with the times and to top it off, the support was dismal.” Leggatt, VP of Operations-Owens Health Manufacturing

Benefits and cost savings of ATS Cloud-Based Time and Attendance include:

Up-To-The-Minute Information
ATS TimeWork provides information for proactive decision-making in real-time. And, with real-time information at your fingertips, workforce decisions shift from reactive to proactive. If overtime is straining the budget, managers can now use up-to-the-second data to access and quickly identify the problem and take immediate steps to fix the situation.

Ease-Of-Use and Flexible
ATS Cloud-Based Time and Attendance is infinitely scalable — and highly configurable framework to easily manage and monitor workforce productivity and absenteeism. ATS Time and Attendance can be accessed via mobile, PC tablets and has an intuitive and user-friendly platform that encourages accountability and compliance.

Award-Winning
ATS Cloud-Based Time and Attendance system is built from the ground up and takes advantage of modern cloud computing technology. With our award-winning multi-tenant model, you can run your business operations on a 21^st century, scalable and affordable platform that delivers continuous innovation.

Service
ATS delivers 99.9% uptime — in effect exceeding the service levels of our nearest competitor. Our 99.9% up and renewal rate demonstrates that we deliver both the reliability and availability that our customers demand.

Implementation
ATS Cloud-Based Time and Attendance reduces the cost of installing, maintaining, supporting a Server onsite. Our cloud-based solution will get you and running in a matter of weeks not months, thus, allowing you to focus on business decisions rather than technology. And, as an organization, your total cost of ownership is lower throughout the lifetime your use of ATS TimeWork Cloud-Based Time and Attendance.

So, isn’t it time you said good-bye to your antiquated system and lackluster provider and move to the cloud? With ATS Workforce Management Solution, you get a single, comprehensive platform for business operations. Whether you are in Toronto, Calgary, New York, Kamloops, Philadephelia or in south and central America, you have access to a powerful cloud computing application that: lower costs, gives you infinite scalability and reliability you can trust.

To download a brochure, see a demonstration, or to request additional information about our cloud-based time and attendance, go to our website.

Benefits Of Cloud-Computing In The World Of Business

Cloud Computing, Employee Self Service, Manufacturing, Time and Attendance, Workforce Management Solutions

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