Workforce Management Software

The economic success of any organization depends on its ability to understand how human capital affects the company's performance and to organize workforce management in an effective way because workers’ experience, knowledge, skills, and innovative activities are the great value to any company. Moreover, the competitiveness of any company depends on strategies and methods of engaging, managing, developing, and retaining the most productive and talented employees.

Organizations, including small businesses, aspire to be more flexible to respond to market changes. Management of human capital or, in other words, talents, skills, and knowledge of the company's staff is the only sustainable source of the competitive advantage of the organization. The goal of any company is fast and cheap designing and producing products or services. Only people are able to produce products (even fully automated production is controlled by humans) and provide services.

Therefore methods of human capital management that help to choose the best employees and improve the efficiency of current employees are indispensable resources for any organization, and workforce management becomes one of the most critical components of the company’s activity. Workforce management includes employees attracting, developing, retaining, and controlling. Creating powerful human resources requires each company to develop a workforce management strategy and methods. New technological solutions are a catalyst for creating new approaches and methods of employee management; moreover, with the growth of information technology, companies have received more advanced methods of labor control and management.

Workforce management software enables:

Collecting and transferring tasks to perform and notify about the current status of the company's activities in real-time.
Choosing the right employees for each particular task by taking into consideration his/her qualifications, location, and work schedule.
Tracking the employee’s location and work time.
Providing workers with all necessary information via personal computers, mobile, and handheld devices.
Backup and automatic accounting of materials required to make work done.
Automatic generating of acts and reports and detailed analysis of each employee and task.
Forecasting of workload that needs to be done and the number of employees required to make work done.
Involving employees in the scheduling process.
Monitoring and analysis of the entire work process.

A comprehensive solution for the efficient management of qualified personnel is a guarantee of the company’s success and prosperity.

Workforce management software requirements

Planning and forecasting – Automating and streamlining the process of workforce planning allows organizations to reduce business costs, and eliminate manual work and mistakes. Using historical data enables periodical forecasting activities.
Scheduling – Masterfully scheduling, even with temporary employees and during cyclic business peaks and depressions, enables optimizing the multiple jobs, efficiently using employees’ skills and knowledge, and, as a result, increasing the products production and service providing speed.
Time and attendance – Reducing payroll errors and overpayments by collecting the labor data, real-time validating work, including overtime, and time, and automating pay calculation.

Performance management – Visibility of the workforce's key performance indicators (KPI) such as labor spend, attendance data and employee overtime across all departments and regions enables data analysis for involvement and equity of pay to employees.
Task management – Making workflow easier and faster is the main goal of any organization. Task management enables determining the prioritized works and assigning the right tasks to the most appropriately skilled employees.
Mobility – Mobile software programs allow companies to extend their workforce management by giving their staff, including managers and other workers the ability to perform their tasks using their smartphones, tablets, or other handheld devices.

Any business owner needs to be sure that employees meet his/her business necessaries. To do that, they should use different tools that enable facilitating long-term planning with short-term forecasting. Workforce management software that helps to provide labor scheduling, time and work data collecting, leave management, task and work activity management, and time and attendance management is an instrument that enables driving the best return on the company’s labor investment via using workers with the necessary skills where and when they are needed most and are most effective.

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