March 9th, 2015 at 2:41 pm
CHELMSFORD, Mass., March 4, 2015 – Providing a competitive salary, good benefits, and professional development opportunities are considered table stakes for most successful organizations today. Yet two simple words – “Thank you” – could be the difference between a happy employee and one with a foot already out the door. Ahead of the 20th anniversary of Employee Appreciation Day on March 6, The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated commissioned an online survey of more than 850 U.S. employees, conducted in February by Harris Poll1, to explore the roots of day-to-day happiness in the workplace. The power of thank you and positive recognition score high with employees, while co-workers can play a significant […]
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February 3rd, 2015 at 2:50 pm
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Feb. 3, 2015 – Kronos Incorporated today announced the latest release of its Kronos Workforce Ready suite, which delivers enterprise-class workforce management solutions in the cloud to small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The latest release, which is available today, extends powerful human resources functionality, compensation management features, and compliance-related resources for SMBs. News Facts Recruit, manage, and reward the workforce – Kronos continues to enhance human resources capabilities of Workforce Ready with: Expanded talent acquisition and hiring tools that can be mapped to an organization’s established processes to recruit and onboard staff quickly and efficiently; Enhancements to compensation management including the ability to tie performance to compensation in order to establish merit increase […]
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January 16th, 2015 at 12:48 pm
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Jan. 13, 2015 – At a recent board of advisors meeting, members of The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated discussed the top issues they believe will impact the world of workforce management in 2015. Individual board members also recorded personal predictions that will affect their respective industries. The Workforce Institute will host a Tweet Chat on Thursday, Jan. 22 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET to discuss 2015 workplace trends and predictions. Top Workplace Trends for 2015 Regulations Shake up the Workplace: Minimum wage law changes and looming U.S. Affordable Care Act deadlines dominated 2014 headlines, but 2015 is when organizations will feel the impact of these and many other regulations. Additionally, with continued […]
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January 13th, 2015 at 3:35 pm
NEW YORK, National Retail Federation’s Annual Convention & Expo, Jan. 12, 2015 – With a focus on simplifying complex workforce data, Kronos Incorporated and Axsium Group have jointly launched a retail store performance plug-in – the first of its kind – to add ease and effectiveness to global corporate, store, and field managers’ work days through automated, guided decision-making. Powered by the Kronos Workforce Analytics application, the new plug-in uncovers gaps in important areas that impact customer and employee satisfaction, helping create optimized schedules by balancing working hours, employee availability, and consumer demand. News Facts The new store performance plug-in provides a single, powerful tool to help guide and improve decision-making and […]
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December 18th, 2014 at 8:31 am
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Dec. 16, 2014 – Industry research points to the fact that cloud computing is currently pervasive in the management of HR and workforce business processes.1 As a testament to this trend, increasingly, global organizations are selecting workforce management solutions from Kronos Incorporated deployed in the Kronos Cloud for added flexibility and cross-enterprise accessibility. News Facts Organizations that have selected or migrated from on-premise deployments to the Kronos Cloud are able to more effectively support their corporate strategy through added flexibility, as well as achievement of a faster return on investment. These organizations rely on Kronos to manage, scale, and upgrade applications and are able to re-assign their IT staff to […]
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December 16th, 2014 at 1:48 pm
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Dec. 15, 2014 — Kronos Incorporated today released a study that examines the total impact employee absences have on organizations and their workforces around the world. The study explored the many residual effects that employee absences have on an organization, including how they affect co-worker and supervisor productivity, the use of replacement workers and overtime to cover absences, direct and indirect costs of paid time off, and the importance of policies and procedures to manage employee absences. The research was commissioned by Kronos Incorporated and conducted in collaboration with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). News Facts The total cost of paid time off as a percentage […]
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December 12th, 2014 at 8:57 am
BEIJING and CHELMSFORD, Mass., Dec. 1, 2014 – Kronos Incorporated has launched a new offering for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in China. The widely used Kronos Workforce Central suite of workforce management solutions is now available in a subscription model in China to help SMBs control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. News Facts Kronos estimates that nearly 10,000 organizations in China with between 500 and 5,000 employees could benefit from its workforce management suite. Many of these organizations are looking for a simple and cost effective way to manage their workforce. Kronos offers a simple Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) pricing approach for Workforce Central in China, with applications […]
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November 3rd, 2014 at 5:27 pm
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Nov. 3, 2014 —Kronos Incorporated today announced that it will host KronosWorks 2014 – the world’s largest vendor-led workforce management gathering – from Nov. 9-12 in Las Vegas. News Facts At KronosWorks 2014, customers, prospective customers, partners, industry influencers, and Kronos employees from around the world will gather to collaborate and learn about how organizations use transformative Kronos workforce management technologies in entirely new ways to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. With nearly 2,500 attendees from around the world – many of which leverage the Kronos Cloud – and hundreds of industry- and product-specific sessions, KronosWorks 2014 will offer deep-dive product demonstrations, customer […]
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October 29th, 2014 at 11:23 am
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Oct. 27, 2014 – A new survey commissioned by The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated and conducted by Harris Poll1 finds that workers around the world are ready to embrace wearable technology at work, with nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of online adults seeing at least one potential workplace benefit. The Kronos “Wearables at Work” survey examines the differences in perception and use of wearable technologies in the workplace of online adults ages 18 and older in Australia, China, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Great Britain (G.B.), and the U.S.2 News Facts The world agrees that wearables could benefit the workplace. Seventy-three percent of adults around the world believe that […]
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October 10th, 2014 at 9:14 am
At this week’s HR Technology Conference & Exposition, Kronos Incorporated introduced several enhancements to its Workforce Central workforce management suite. These features include a professional project tracking solution as well as enhancements for manufacturers and for the public sector. Kronos Adds Professional Project Tracking for Organizations to Improve Client Service For organizations in industries such as banking, insurance, IT consulting, and legal, Kronos introduced professional project tracking in order to increase efficiencies among field, contract, and professional exempt employees. The new project tracking capability allows organizations to clearly track projects in real time and see costs associated with specific projects. This allows employers to more easily align paid time with […]
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