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It is Time to Digitize Your Spreadsheets

December 5th, 2022 | Posted by ATS in ATS TimeWork OnDemand | Benefit Accruals | Biometric FaceScan | Biometric Time Clocks | Employee Productivity | Employee Scheduling | Employee Self Service | Employee Time Tracking | HR | Human Capital Management (HCM) | iPad | Leave Management | Payroll | Time and Attendance Blog, Workforce Management Software | Time and Attendance Canada | Time and Attendance Toronto - (Comments Off on It is Time to Digitize Your Spreadsheets)

Say goodbye to antiquated time tracking and spreadsheets. Thanks to the power of ATSTimeWorkOnDemand, all data points are now at your fingertips, including; HR process, instant workflows, employee dashboards and more.

ATSTimeWorkOnDemand solution provides a suite of capabilities that make HR and payroll departments work easier and more efficient for everyone, across the organization. With a single tool to manage human resources, payroll and data tracking, organizations can eliminate third-party integrations, improve data accuracy, create a more engaging workforce experience, and make better-informed decisions to tightly align workforce performance with business performance.

Here are some of the benefits of ATSTimeWorkOnDemand HR Suite:

Reduce HR Administrative Costs
Empower employees and managers to securely accomplish common HR tasks, like changing addresses, making and/or updating shift schedules or viewing time-off balances, at any time.

Manage Compliance
ATSTimeWorkOnDemand is configured to adhere to collective bargaining agreements, flexible working time models and Canadian, US international holidays.  With ATS Time and Attendance suite, you can fast track your workforce strategy by saving your team valuable time. The solution automates tedious tasks that overburden your people, and it will help you, gain greater insights to make more informed business decisions — and put yourself on a clear path to compliance.

Drive Deeper Workforce Engagement
Connect employees to their work with active goal setting. Recognize, review and reward achievements to increase engagement and productivity. By deploying ATSTimeWorkOnDemand, you can be confident that you and your team are making informed time and attendance decisions — in real time — to best meet your business needs.

Automation Time and Attendance Processes
ATSTimeWorkOnDemand will reduce manual — and error-prone — data entry and improve HR and payroll accuracy. Whether you use ATS Time Kiosk, hand geometry, Web Punch (for Android and iPhones) or facial recognition-these data collectors, will increase productivity and boost your business operations.

Reduce the Cost of Running Payroll and Increase Workforce Performance.  
Run payroll in minutes without importing or manipulating third-party files, and post to your general ledger in real-time. ATS workflows enables you to access employee performance metrics built on — and updated by — ATS HR Suite.

Want to learn how our HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions can help you achieve a better work experience for all your people? Call; 866-294-2467. To download a demo, go to our website, www.atimesolutions.com

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Working From Home? Here Are 3 Tips For Taking Care Of Your Eyes

July 13th, 2021 | Posted by ATS in Employee Productivity | Employee Self Service | Fingerprint Time And Attendance Canada | Fingerprint Time And Attendance Toronto | HR | iPad | Leave Management | Remote Work | Telecommuting Employees | Time and Attendance Blog, Workforce Management Software | Time and Attendance Canada | Time and Attendance Toronto - (Comments Off on Working From Home? Here Are 3 Tips For Taking Care Of Your Eyes)

Working from home full-time for some during these trying times of COVID-19 has throw a wrench into the concept of work-life balance. And, while some of us are slowly returning to the office, others have continued to work from home.

Wheter you have an arrangement with your manager to telecommute a couple days a week or if you are working from home full-time, here are 3 tips for taking care of your eyes from an article written by Sarah D. Young: 

  1. Adjust your environment: Sit about two feet away from your computer screen to reduce eyestrain. Position the screen so that your eyes are looking slightly downward, not straight ahead or up. Adjust the screen brightness and contrast until it feels comfortable, and consider using a larger font if you’re working hard to see letters. 
  2. Take regular eye breaks: Seldomridge advises following the “20-20-20” rule, by looking 20 feet away from the screen every 20 minutes for 20 seconds. Alternatively, you can close your eyes for 20 seconds every 20 minutes. 
  3. Use artificial tears: Because staring at screens reduces blinking and increases dryness, the use of eye drops (“artificial tears”) can help keep your eyes moist and alleviate dry eye discomfort. Seldomridge said a humidifier can also help add moisture to the air and help prevent eye dryness. 

Bottomline: These tips can help reduce eye strain when we are forced to look at screens all day. Some experts suggest that we create technology-free zones in certain areas of ours homes, like the bedroom or bathroom. Just imagine spending the entire day working on the computer, getting in bed and scrolling through social media?  We should instead, truly unplug by reading a book or spend some quality time with family members without our phones.

About ATS
ATS offers a broad portfolio of time and attendance solutions that streamlines the collection, calculation, and reporting of employee hours for workforce management and eliminates the manual tasks of payroll preparation, increasing efficiency and reducing errors in corporate payroll departments.

Thousands of organizations across North, Central and South America and Europe- including more than half of the Fortune 500 – use ATS TimeWork OnDemand, Workforce Planning, Employee Scheduling HR and payroll solutions to manage their workforce.

In addition, ATS provides modular analytic solutions that includes; workforce planning, benefits management, employee self-service, business intelligence, human resources, payroll, and advanced analytics based on a robust cloud computing platform for information and data needs. It also offers design, rapid deployment, support services, software updates, and enhancements; and consulting and training services.

To learn more, call: 866.294.2467 and to download a demo go to our website.

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Software And The Internet Of Things, Is At Its Best, When It Embodies Simplicity

April 19th, 2016 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in iPad | Payroll | Software-as-a-Service (saas) Workforce Management Software | Time and Attendance Canada | Workforce Management Software - (Comments Off on Software And The Internet Of Things, Is At Its Best, When It Embodies Simplicity)

Software should be simple to use, are words you hear from some software providers and the purveyors of cutting-edge technology, including those who form part of The Internet of Things (IoT) industry. Some companies have the words, “simple or easy-to-use” splashed across the website, but once it is adopted, it is anything but simple. After all, why would any company deploy workforce management software that’s difficult to navigate? Of course, colourful dashboards that excite users is one thing, but having to navigate through several screens to complete a task, can be mind boggling, not mention frustrating.

A recent article authored Hayley Tsukayama for The Washington Post and titled ‘Why Apple and Google are struggling to design simple software’ laments the struggles that behemoths that Google and Apple are undergoing. “Companies like Apple and Google are expanding the scope of what they offer — they aren’t hawking one kind of hardware or one type of software, but rather a combination of both, often with several cloud services thrown in for good measure. Apple is no longer a focused iPod-and-Mac company. So the current version of iTunes has to offer so much more than just a way to get digital music. Google (or Alphabet) is no longer just a search bar on a Web page, it’s a whole ecosystem of information, software programs and an expanding universe of devices. The simple designs of the past products from these companies were never meant to accommodate the range of offerings that are now demanded by consumers.”

Software and The Internet of Things, is at its best, when it embodies Simplicity

The question remains, with the appetite of consumers and businesses evolving can software providers adjust, and at same time, ensure the applications are easy to use? For example, if you are using the latest toothbrush that embodies the Internet of things (IoT) do you have to glance at your phone while you are brushing to ensure you are keeping on track? These and many other questions remain unanswered.

The article continues; “What started as a simple program for buying, storing and downloading music has morphed into a much larger program for TV shows, movies, podcasts, apps, streaming music and device management. At times, it can feel like a building that’s being repeatedly expanded and renovated in a new architectural style every time.”

In conclusion, the Internet of Things (IoT) is here to stay and the same is true for cloud-based workforce management solutions, payroll, ERP and other related business management software. And, while they may be tweaked to adjust toe business and consumer demands, they shown no signs of abating.

Interested in learning more about ATS Cloud-Based Time and Attendance? You can register for this week’s free webinar by going to our website. You can also download a demonstration and see how easy it is to track and management employees hours.

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Owning a BlackBerry Smart-Phone: Is it a Thing of the Past?

April 10th, 2013 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Employee Time Tracking Software | iPad | Labour Analytics | Overtime Equalization | Payroll | Playbooks | SaaS Time and Attendance | Smartphone | Time and Attendance Blog | Time and Attendance Blog, Workforce Management Software | Time and Attendance Canada | Time and Attendance On-Demand | Time and Attendance Software | TimeWork | Web-Based Time and Attendance Software | Workforce Management Software - (0 Comments)

Armchair pundits and analysts alike have had a great deal to say about BlackBerry’s recent smart-phone, the XZ10. Some have predicted its demise due in part, to the amount of time it took to bring out a device comparable to the iPhone, Android, Samsung Galaxy and many others on the market. In the end, the success of Blackberry lies with consumers liking and purchasing its products, not the views of analysts.

Some years ago when BlackBerry launched its smart-phone, the device gave users the ability to send and receive e-mails through the device at a time when this was viewed as revolutionary. At that time, it catered mostly to corporate executives and government users. As time went on, Apple, Google and other companies launched their own smart-phones. Apple was the first to launch its iPhone with great fanfare using ads featuring hip youngsters showing off their phones. In addition to e-mails and texting, you could also browse the web at lightning speed, view various features and download many software applications that BlackBerry phones could not do. All of a sudden the public started taking notice and the line ups to get an iPhone stretched for several blocks. These new smart-phones were now accessible to everyone, not just corporate executives. Some have argued, BlackBerry came across as stuffy and refused to include the younger generation in its ads and that is one of the many reasons it has struggled to gain new users.

BlackBerry has its diehard fans and some have argued that the Z10 is the start of great things to come. Many BlackBerry users also say that they love the product because of its built-in encryption which makes it a better-managed platform than its competitors. Whether you are a BlackBerry fan or not, the consumer always wins when there is competition.

The history of Apple chronicles that it, too, went through a rough patch many years ago, but most its loyal fans stuck with it. Most companies go through a period when they have to find out what made them successful and be able to change with the times. 

Companies using a BlackBerry Z10, Ipad, Windows Mobile or other smart-phone device can access the ATS web-based time and attendance software from anywhere.  ATS TimeWork time and attendance software features include; tracking of benefit accruals, pay policies, employee shifts; overtime and premium pay codes, statutory holiday tracking, employee self service, job costing and labour analytics. ATS time and attendance is an integrated and scalable application that is designed to meet the most challenging the timekeeping and workforce management needs of any organization.

Kudos to BlackBerry on the launch of its Z10! Their success or lack thereof will be determined by the consumers. That said we wish them continued success.

To learn more, go to our website and download a white paper on the benefits of an automated time and attendance solution.

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NFL Embraces New Technology

December 14th, 2012 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Benefit Accruals | Biometric Time and Attendance Facial Recognition System | Cloud Time and Attendance | Employee Time Attendance | ERP | iPad | Labour Analytics | Labour Costs | Overtime Equalization | Payroll | Premium pay | SaaS Time and Attendance | Workforce Management Software - (0 Comments)

In a world of Smart phones, social media and an app for just about everything, it was no surprise to read an article about sports teams embracing technology. According to an article in the Toronto Star and NFL.com, NFL latest to abandon old media for iPad, apps “20 of the league’s 32 teams have implemented iPads for playbooks or video study, a trend teams and developers say saves time, paper and, most importantly, money.”

Does this mean that all sports leagues will be rushing towards this new technology? It would be great if they all did, but change is difficult for many people to accept. More importantly, the issue of security will be top of mind for most NFL executives, coaches and players.  Another quote from the article cited the following; “In the US, Stanford University’s football team recently converted to digital playbooks, citing a desire to save money and reduce the team’s carbon footprint.”

In the National Football League where the playbook is regarded with the same level of security as the CIA and FBI affords the President of the United States, teams adopting new technology want to make sure their data is secure.

Is your company still using paper-based systems when technology could save you time and money? Join the conversation on Twitter. To learn more, go to our website.

 

 

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