Time and Attendance Blog, Workforce Management Software

As Summer Comes To A Close, It’s Time To Bring That Project Back To Life

The start of September means back to school for many kids and for some parents, it’s also back to the daily work and dusting off that time and attendance project that everyone was gung-ho about prior to the summer break. And why would September be a good time to take another look? Simply put, your colleagues are likely back at work and with a collective and renewed focus on controlling payroll costs once and for all—your company, can now look to starting the fall by implementing a best-in-class time and attendance system.

Here are three tips that will make a difference and help your business grow:

Your business will not be limited to just the office
Remaining competitive in this ever increasing global economy is challenge for every business, regardless of the industry. To increase profit margins and propel growth, today’s companies need the power of a best-of-breed time and attendance solution. With ATS TimeWork On-Demand, you can be more responsive inter-departmentally, extrapolate data more quickly, and reduce operating costs by getting more done in less time.

Analytics at your fingertips
Companies with up-to-the-minute data, has the competitive edge over their counterparts. With ATS TimeWork On-Demand, you can accomplish more, faster—capture employee hours, track attendance, approve vacations on-the-fly, and access business intelligence data, to make informed decisions.

Eliminate inefficiencies while increasing profits
ATS TimeWork On-Demand is easy-to-use comprehensive time and attendance application that gives companies the right tools and insight to reduce costs, grow revenue.

Aren’t; you tired of tracking employee vacations with spreadsheets? Or how about manually keying hours into your payroll software? If so, let the ATS team show you how you can accelerate your business growth in a more efficient manner while reducing costs.

To learn more, you can view a live demo or join one of our upcoming webinars.

Business Intelligence, Spreadsheets, Time and Attendance

ATS TimeWork Drives Productivity And Helps Businesses Achieve Their Financial Goals Faster

Most businesses understand that it’s critical that they automate their business processes to remain competitive, increase revenue and by extension, keep their shareholders happy, otherwise they will become obsolete. The question then becomes, what’s the best solution to help; capture accurate employee data, increase productivity and streamline payroll costs?

Today, more than ever mid and large companies want a solution that can be deployed quickly and effortlessly with inherent flexibility that will grow with them. How well employees can access, share and use information has a tremendous impact on a company’s ability to serve customers and grow revenue. ATS TimeWork simplifies the management of complex business processes across the organization, complete with user alerts and business intelligence tools. ATS TimeWork is both highly scalable and includes management capabilities to help businesses adapt to change quickly and expand into new markets, without expensive software and infrastructure costs.

ATS TimeWork Time and Attendance Solution Benefits Include:

Support Business Requirements Best-Practices–ATS TimeWork was designed to support best-in-class workforce management business processes — easily visible using process flows and workforce analytic tools — and interchangeable to match each company’s unique processes.

Ease Of Use-End-user will enjoy the easy navigation tools and employee edit screens. ATS TimeWork is quick to implement, and intuitive to learn.

Designed For Local, Global And Multi-National Companies–Built-in support for local, regional and internal workforce regulations, business practices and legal requirements. ATS TimeWork time and attendance offers the ability to automate country-specific labor law compliance functions, while simultaneously supporting your organization’s, payroll, human resources and union policies.

Flexible Deployment- You can choose to deploy ATS TimeWork On-Demand in stages or all at once. services that address your current business requirements and support future growth. ATS TimeWork provides end-users with best-practice approach experience and cutting edge technologies- while taking advantage of the flexibility and predictable costs that go along with ATS Software as a Service (SaaS) solution.

Ongoing Support–ATS On-Boarding provides fast, effective implementation and best-in-class support. ATS remains committed to answering questions and resolving product issues fast and effectively. ATS provides support through different channels up to and including; an extensive library of detailed online help, FAQs, online user guides, and tips that will help you get the most from your ATS time and attendance application.

So, how do you equip your business with the right tools? If your current time and attendance system cannot handle the dynamic business requirements of your growing enterprise, it’s time to look elsewhere. ATS time and attendance is built on a modern-day business platform that can quickly adapt to increasing business demands.

To learn how to adapt your business for the 21^st century contact ATS and discover TimeWork On-Demand.

Human Resources, Payroll, SaaS, Time and Attendance, Workforce Management Software

Having Trouble Tracking Employee Attendance? Bring It On

Tracking time and attendance is a fundamental part of a workforce management solution. Analyzing, tracking and managing time and attendance within an organization, is by and large, a critical component and many companies still struggle with. Today’s companies need the right tools to help them understand what time an employee came in and left on any given day. The process of collecting employee data and integrating it to payroll, HR or other third-party applications is at the heart of ATS time and attendance solution.

One of the most effective ways to save valuable time within any organization is to maximize employee productivity by automating common administrative tasks. For example; could your managers be more productive if they were using a time tracking solution that’s has embedded alerts for each time an employee was late or forgot to punch in? Of course they could. ATS time and attendance solution eradicates time-consuming tasks and replaces them with real-time data analytics that gives operational managers greater visibility over attendance patterns including, overtime, missing punches, time-off requests and will help reduce the administrative burden, and optimize your compliance efforts.

ATS time and attendance is a flexible and robust solution designed, to adapt to your current requirements, scalable enough to align with your growth and accessible anywhere, anytime. ATS time and attendance enables customers to accurately pay their employees in compliance with Provincial, Federal and State labour rules, while also management more robust requirements, such as union rules, premium pay, shift differentials, and grace rules.

ATS TimeWork will minimize your involvement with mundane tasks by providing with you a best-of-breed solution that you can count on. You can then you now focus your resources on your core business with the goal of achieving business results.

Want to know how you can achieve business results? Join us for one of our live webinars or download a pre-recorded demonstration from our website.

Having Trouble Tracking Employee Attendance? Bring It On

Data Analytics, Overtime, Premium Pay, Shift Differentials, Time Tracking

$76 Billion And Counting…

July 22nd, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Biometric Time Clock | Payroll | Software-as-a-Service (saas) Workforce Management Software | Time and Attendance On-Demand - (Comments Off)

Rupert Murdoch’s bid for Time Warner sent shockwaves throughout the media business landscape. This bit of news dominated the airwaves and online forums, this past week and while there have been a lot of chatter, permeated with questions its clear one of the reasons has to do with the shifting landscape of how consumers watch their favorite shows. TV has been the dominate force for many years with weekly series, when all of a sudden, it appears that the tide is turning in favor of on-demand shows.

In the last several years, On-Demand Internet streaming companies like Netflix, HBO and Hulu have had cable TV companies screaming in frustration at the success of popular shows like; Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Weeds and countless others that are being watched online by the very customers that were loyal to watching weekly TV series. Why bother waiting for next week when you can watch three episodes in one night? Many analysts and industry executives are predicting, Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox conglomerate will not give up in its pursuit of Time Warner for a host of profitable reasons among others.

The world of time and attendance has gone through a similar transformation. Many of today’s companies are now choosing to utilize cloud-based time tracking over an on-premises solution. And with ATS TimeWork On-Demand software scalability, faster ROI and quick implementation, its no wonder many companies are embracing the many advantages that cloud computing affords.

ATS TimeWork On-Demand provides the next generation workforce management solution that includes, large screen display time clocks, an easy-to-use software interface, with HR capabilities, business intelligence and host of other features that will make your spreadsheets and the 23 year and antiquated punch clocks obsolete.

To see a live demonstration of ATS time and attendance, go to our website or you can join the conversation on our business group through LinkedIn, Twitter or Google Plus.

Game of Thrones, Hulu, NetFlix, Time Tracking Software, Time Warner

You Should Be Dancing With Your Time And Attendance Solution

July 10th, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Business Intelligence | Hosted Time and Attendance Solution | Payroll - (Comments Off)

Assuming the time and attendance that your company is using and also assuming its meeting your business requirements, you should be dancing. Accurate data collection should be part of the fundamentals your time and attendance solution and if it’s not, you should be looking elsewhere. The ability to access daily attendance, extrapolate business intelligence and work in concert with your payroll software– is what ATS TimeWork time and attendance provides.

True to its name, ATS time and attendance provides a compelling database engine that shows how each part of the data configuration process relates to the others—and provides up-to-the-minute reports, forecast business activities effectively, automate work rules and calculates employee time accurately.

ATS Time and Attendance core capabilities include:

Workforce Management Visibility— ATS Workforce Management contains comprehensive features that address every aspect of today’s companies—including workforce planning, time and attendance, and absence management—the solution includes a sophisticated workforce analytics tools that helps to comply with labor rules and regulations.

Business intelligence—Allow decision makers to view and analyze key factors and performance trends in the areas of human resources, payroll, production, finance and across company branches. Monitor workforce performance in real- time, and avoid labour violations and non-compliance issues through proactive analytics monitoring.

Labour Allocation—Capture costs as changes occur, ensuring up-to-date and accurate costs. With ATS workforce management solution, you can make sure you have the right people working in the right place at the right time.

Workforce Planning—Allow information to pass from one person or department to another through the automated time and attendance process cycle. ATS Workforce Management eliminates costs and errors from budgeting and planning thus, integrating your company’s forecasting activities.

Time and Attendance—Automate employee attendance processes to reduce payroll costs, comply with collective bargaining rules and government regulations. The solution allows for customized attendance queries, with pre-defined business metrics, all available through an intuitive cloud-based interface.

ATS Workforce Management will have you dancing with its bevy of rich functionality, and cool user experience all designed for long-term workforce planning. With a 21^st century time and attendance solution that addresses every aspect of today’s workforce management requirements —you will also have access to sophisticated business intelligence tools for measuring and analyzing workforce performance today and into the foreseeable future.

To see a live demonstration, go to our website.

You Should Be Dancing With Your Time And Attendance Solution

Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Labour Allocation

It’s Summertime, But Does That Mean You Should Introduce Your Colleagues To Your Flip-Flops?

June 30th, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Payroll | Time and Attendance Blog, Workforce Management Software | Workforce Management Software - (0 Comments)

After a long and dreaded winter, the sun is a welcome arrival and with it comes office attire faux pas by some employees. Who does not like wearing shorts, sunglasses and flip-flops in the summer? Of course we all do. While some companies have formal written policies, some simply rely on the employee common sense to understand their work environment. That said, some industries have unspoken rules and its incumbent on the employees to understand their work environment. And if going for job interview, it’s always a good idea to ask the interviewer about the company’s dress code policy in advance.

In no particular order, here is a list of well published don’ts for office attire. This list may also applies to candidates going on job interviews:

Crop tops
Overalls
Tank tops or sleeveless shirts
Halter tops
Flip-flops
Overly revealing attire
Jogging suits
Birkenstocks
Shorts or Capri pants
Crocks
Hawaiian shirt

There are a myriad of industries some of which include; technology and advertising where the wearing of jeans and even Hawaiian shirts might be allowed. However, regardless of the industry, it would be wise to simply ask the HR department of your about their dress code policy so, you can dress in accordance with the policy. Employers also have a responsibility to keep up with the times since today’s workforce is different from the ones back in the 80’s for example. The recent case of employees wearing tattoos at their workplace created a media firestorm of epic proportions for both parties.

Flip-Flops, Technology, Workforce

Complicated Time & Attendance Business Requirements? No Problem!

We are huge advocates of keeping things simple in your time and attendance business case and deployment strategy. No two businesses are the same and, even companies in similar industries will have a different set of challenges. ATS time and attendance is not a ‘Johnny come lately’ attendance tracking solution. Our workforce management software is an industry-leading solution, loaded with best-of-breed features and steeped with a 20 year history.

Solution Benefits:

ATS TimeWork will replace your spreadsheets- ATS time and attendance will help senior executives, Payroll and HR professionals eradicate the confusion and limitations that comes with using incoherent spreadsheets. ATS time and attendance connects seamlessly to your current ERP, CRM, HRIS, Payroll or Talent Management system and provides beautiful data at your fingertips. ATS workforce analytics provides information in an easy-to-read format that you can share with all stakeholders and take action towards improved productivity.

Business intelligence that makes sense-ATS TimeWork is easy to use and can be implemented in weeks. You simply log on with your user name and password using your preferred browser and voila! And with ATS TimeWork, you can view: employees approaching overtime, vacation requests, budget vs actual and a whole lot more. Want to dig deeper and understand which specific days that certain employees arrive late or calls in sick? No problem! ATS TimeWork can reveal that information.

Your business requirements are complex? That’s ok, we’ve got the answer-as a growing businesses you should make sure that the time and attendance solution you are about to deploy, can grow as your needs evolve. ATS robust time and attendance provides the functionality that your company needs now and in the future. You can activate modules as the need arise to ensure they are being used efficiently. ATS TimeWork is flexible enough to cater to a variety of industries and across many countries ATS TimeWork has the tools to facilitate business requirements from the most complex to the simple attendance tracking across operations.

So, the idea that your business requirements might be complex should not put off the need to deploy a time and attendance solution. A workforce management solution, that makes sense, is robust and comes with deep industry expertise to match, is what you should go for. The whole notion that the most inexpensive solution will match your requirements is nothing more than a myth. Now should you “break the bank” in an attempt to get that matches your requirements? No, but if your solution is being deployed by a vendor with a hands-on approach, with your requirements in mind, then you are on your way seeing a quick return on investment.

ATS TimeWork can perfectly adapt to your organization with little or no customization, ATS TimeWork lowers your costs from inception right through deployment.

To learn more, join Tracey Milligan, Product Software Engineer, and her team on Friday, June 20^th at 1:00pm ET for a live and interactive webinar on how to “Automate to Supercharge your Business”.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Resources Management Information Systems (HRIS), Payroll, Talent Management, Time and Attendance

Did You Try The Pair Or Only One Shoe?

You would not buy a pair of shoes after trying on one shoe. The same principle applies in choosing a time tracking software. At the very least, figure out whether your requirements can be met by asking questions about the hardware as well as software. The market-place is fraught with time and attendance solutions. And different vendors offer different solutions; some offer integration to CRM, HRIS, Payroll, ERP and Talent Management applications, while others offer different deployment options and a bevy of modules that can meet the needs of the largest companies. While all these applications serve a purpose and there may be some similarities with their functionalities, there will be differences in the way they operate.

Once you find the time and attendance solution that will fit your organizational needs, you can look for scalability. Don’t fall in love with a solution based purely on price or on a set of bells and whistles that you will probably never use. At the heart of your employee time and attendance software should be its ease-of-use and instant user base statistical data analysis. Who wants to go through five or more steps to access one report? By the same token, the application should be scalable enough to grow with your business.

Choosing the right time and attendance system to meet your business needs, is like choosing which shoe to buy. You want to give those pair of shoes several glances, put them and then walk in them and see how they feel. Your company’s chosen time tracking solution should manage your company’s specific business operations, complete with, real-time reporting capability and the ability to give you the control and insight you need to grow now and into the future.

To learn more, join ATS product team on Friday, June 20^th at 1:00pm eastern for a live webinar on how to “Automate to Supercharge your Business”.

Did You Try The Pair Or Only One Shoe?

CRM, HRIS, Payroll, Talent Management, Time and Attendance Software

CFO’s See The Value In Cloud-Based Time And Attendance

CFOs are just as responsible for profitability of the organizations that they work as is the CEO. Some might even argue, a great deal of responsibility is thrust upon their shoulders since of their main objectives is to ensure that costs are aligned with operational expenses. Cloud-based time and attendance solution is becoming the norm and even risk-averse CFO’s, are now seriously considering that option as way of helping their overworked HR and payroll managers cope with attendance in real-time.

ATS cloud-based time and attendance system is flexible and helps companies avoid fixed capital investments during periods of corporate or economic uncertainty and timely access to the latest TimeWork On-Demand software capabilities.

So, what do CFO’s want from their time and attendance solution?

Information at their fingertips
To start, analytic reporting tools that contains the right information. CFOs need information that helps them extrapolate the right data whenever and whenever they need it. Financial managers want the ability to see exactly what is coming into and out of the business, where and when – allowing them to budget and forecast accordingly.

A solution that offers value
There is no question that economic slow-down of 2008 had made many companies more very prudent when it comes to spending on time and attendance software. And financial managers are taking a cautious approach to spending after having seen so many companies run into difficulties over the last few years, due in part to the financial crisis. These financial executives are keeping a closer eye on the bottom line.

Service and support
Service and support will never go out of style and although financial executives look for good value and a solid product, they also want service and support to go along with the product. ATS portfolio of services is designed to help you resolve problems more quickly—or even prevent problems before they occur—and to protect your investment. Whether you want to upgrade your service or extend your post-warranty technical support coverage, we offer highly support services and contracts with remote or onsite support with a single point of contact.

Whether you are dealing with manual timesheets or antiquated punch clocks, today’s organizations are looking to trusted time and attendance providers to help reduce cost, manage complexity, and provide real-time support. And that’s where ATS comes in.

To learn more, go to our website. You can also sign up for our next webinar on Friday, June 20^th at 1:00pm ET.

CFO’s See The Value In Cloud-Based Time And Attendance

Cloud Based Time and Attendance, Human Resources, Payroll, Punch Clocks, Time Sheets

Choosing A Time Tracking Solution Using The Goldilocks Methodology

The story of Goldilocks and the three bears is a fabulous children’s fairytale about choices. Its equivalent in the world of business automation choices, translates to the same thing. In choosing a time and attendance solution, some companies focus on their size as oppose to their requirements. While the size of your company (and in particular, number of employees) should not be left out of the equation, focusing on the actual requirements is a good barometer, for finding the right solution.

For example, the requirements of a company with 90 employees might include; job costing, three different company structures, separate collective agreements, 2 locations with different pay rules and separate payroll interfaces. A company with 300 employees might have all employees housed at the same location with work rules that are similar in nature across all departments. While this is not always the case, focusing on your company’s requirements will go a long way.

With a plethora of time and attendance systems to choose from, how do you find the solution for your business? ATS TimeWork is a robust time tracking solution designed for mid-size and enterprise-size businesses. The solution is highly configurable and is flexible enough to grow and change as your business evolves. ATS TimeWork is easy to learn and use and in addition, to tracking employee time and absences, it can help analyze data to spot trends and gain insight into your business activities. ATS TimeWork can integrate to variety of software applications including: Payroll, Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM).

Whether you are looking to streamline payroll costs for the first time or looking to change from your current system, using the proper time and attendance software for your business is important. Your time management system should be capable of managing the most basic functions as it relates to your company and, at the same time, be flexible enough to evolve with your business.

The Goldilocks methodology of trying out each bowl of porridge until she found the right one, lends credence to sampling your software in advance. However, by openly sharing your company’s requirements, you will save time by quickly figuring out which solution is right for your company.

To learn more, go to our website and download a demonstration of ATS TimeWork.

ERP, Human Resources Information Systems, Job Costing, Payroll, Time and Attendance

As Summer Comes To A Close, It’s Time To Bring That Project Back To Life

ATS TimeWork Drives Productivity And Helps Businesses Achieve Their Financial Goals Faster

Having Trouble Tracking Employee Attendance? Bring It On

$76 Billion And Counting…

You Should Be Dancing With Your Time And Attendance Solution

It’s Summertime, But Does That Mean You Should Introduce Your Colleagues To Your Flip-Flops?

Complicated Time & Attendance Business Requirements? No Problem!

Did You Try The Pair Or Only One Shoe?

Choosing A Time Tracking Solution Using The Goldilocks Methodology

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