COVID Resources
The content provides updated insights from 2020 to 2024 on workplace management tools and strategies, emphasizing the necessity of advanced facial recognition time clocks for accurate employee tracking, the critical importance of time off and absence management amid increased remote work, COVID-19 symptom screening integration in timekeeping systems like WorkforceHub, and the need for businesses—especially in healthcare and manufacturing—to adapt workforce practices for efficiency, cost reduction, and safety in a post-pandemic environment.
Updated April 17, 2024
A facial recognition time clock is no longer a luxury. Advanced biometric clocks are a must-have for today’s workplaces. A facial recognition time clock is the best technology for tracking employee time. It solves a multitude of problems employers are facing with their workforces.
What is a Facial Recognition Time Clock?…
Updated December 8, 2022
When we first published this post in January 2020, we had no idea how important time off management would become in the ensuing months and years.
Why Time Off Management is Essential
Let’s consider the characteristics of today’s employment environment that impact absence management:
- Dramatic increase in remote working and the…
Updated June 2, 2021
Are you in the process of bringing your workforce back? Do you have successful return-to-work strategies? This may help: WorkforceHub employee timekeeping can present a symptom survey at clock-in.
How does WorkforceHub screen for COVID-19 symptoms?
As the administrator, you create custom prompts in WorkforceHub. When employees punch in, the clock-in…
Are you losing time and money managing the recruitment and hiring of employees manually? With the current state of affairs around the world, one would be hard-pressed to find any business that does not have a directive and budget governed by thinning out operations, meticulous efficiency and overall cost reduction. Understandably, financial shrewdness has become…
As businesses reopen, there is both a need and an opportunity to rethink many healthcare workforce practices. Large and small, emergent and ambulatory, medical and dental organizations—every healthcare organization has changed. Some have been stretched and worn thin on the front lines. Others have been sidelined as elective procedures and appointments were postponed or canceled.…
It’s time to retool your manufacturing workforce practices. Chances are your workplace looks a lot different from 6 months ago. Work schedules, locations, and hours all changed. Your supply chain, distribution networks, and standard operating procedures have taken a hit. You improvised because there was no playbook. You kept the operation running. Now what? The…
Human resources functions are critical for business recovery. HR is tasked with redesigning processes for safety and compliance. They must also lower overhead. For some companies, survival depends on it.
How can Human Resources functions reduce labor costs?
Let’s suppose you need to reduce expenses by 20%. You can’t move forward without bringing back the…
Post-COVID business recovery depends on HR leadership. Johnny C. Taylor Jr., President & CEO at SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management), characterized HR professionals as corporate first responders. They are on the front lines helping organizations work through pandemic-triggered disruption. HR will need to be the stewards of physical and mental health, continuity, and wellness.…
It’s unfortunate that offboarding is a buzzy topic right now. It’s unpleasant even when business is booming. Mass offboarding of valued employees can be overwhelming. Nevertheless, it’s important for HR directors to get it right.
What is offboarding?
Offboarding is the process of ending the employment relationship between an employer and employee. There are multiple…
Pivoting in Uncertain Times
Uncertainty is uncomfortable—and inspirational. Companies across America are pivoting to meet new demand and rethink operations. They combine creativity, determination, and technology to retool, retrench and rebuild. New production lines, online shops, takeout, curbside service, home delivery, remote work, drive-by clinics and telehealth are all inspired by uncertainty and need.
Retool:…
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