Workforce Management Blog
The Workforce Management Blog highlights Swipeclock's recent Base Camp Live 2025 event, introduces a new WorkforceHub dashboard to streamline client navigation, showcases how PEOs leverage Swipeclock for payroll and compliance, emphasizes modern timekeeping software as a competitive growth tool for PEOs, outlines the costly risks of manual timekeeping like employee time theft, and promotes TimeWorksPlus as an affordable solution for small business workforce planning and cost control.
Base Camp Live 2025 Session #1 is in the Books!
Swipeclock recently hosted the first Base Camp Live session of 2025, bringing back the popular in-person event series that started several years ago. We hosted this session alongside the IPPA Spring Summit in Las Vegas. Base Camp Live is all about our partners and...
Dashboard Now Available in WorkforceHub
The WorkforceHub dashboard is the starting point for many of your clients. Navigating various screens or having to search for what is needed can waste time and create friction. A new dashboard is now live in the platform, and it’s a great enhancement to the workforce...
How PEOs Use Swipeclock Every Day
Real-World Examples That Prove the Value of the Right Partnership
Professional employer organizations play a critical role in helping businesses manage payroll, compliance, and workforce operations. But delivering that value consistently isn’t easy. PEOs serve clients...
Modern Timekeeping Software Helps PEOs Win More Clients Without Adding Staff
For many PEO owners and operators, growth doesn’t come from adding more services; it comes from offering the right services in a way that makes your organization easier to work with than the next PEO down the street. Timekeeping is one of those services. It's not...
5 Ways Manual Timekeeping Costs Your Business
Still using pen and paper? Have you considered how much manual timekeeping costs a business?
- 1.Employee Time Theft
- Paper timecard systems can be exploited in a number of ways from hours padding to buddy punching. Some large employers who switch to an automated system...
When Starting Your Small Business, Use TimeWorksPlus To Keep Costs Low
Today's message focuses on workforce planning. Specifically, the financial rewards for new business owners that use TimeWorksPlus. TimeWorksPlus is an affordable, easy to use employee timekeeping system from Swipeclock. In addition to helping you efficiently manage...
Reduce Labor Costs 20%!
Need to shrink costs? How about reducing admin and labor costs by 20%? Where do you start?
- Consolidate Your Human Resources
- Get WorkforceHub from Swipeclock
- Use best practices for Human Resources functions
When all Human Resources is controlled in one platform, you...
TimeWorksPlus Has Geofencing!
TimeWorksPlus Geofencing
If you need to know if employees are working at the correct location, you need geofencing.
What is Geofencing?
Geofencing is a mobile tracking tool that can specify a virtual boundary. The virtual boundary is called a geofence. It is based on...
Excel For HR Functions vs. Swipeclock Software
Most businesses use Excel for HR functions. And some use Excel for ALL HR functions. Excel is powerful, no doubt about it. Twenty-five years ago it was the only game in town. But there are better options today. Swipeclock has solutions for all of your HR...
Employee Scheduling Solution Review
There are 1,440 minutes in a day, and here at Swipeclock, we believe that none of those should be wasted! Running a business and managing employees is no small task and it can become difficult to make sure that your organization and employees are running smoothly...
Time, Attendance & Scheduling: The Beauty of Self-Service
If you are too young to remember the days before pay-at-the-pump gas stations, online banking, and airport check-in kiosks, you probably can't fully appreciate the merits of self-service. Self-service Workforce Management can make life easier and more productive at...
How To Approve Time Cards In Minutes
Do time card approvals take forever? We can help. Here are 3 ways you can speed up time card approvals. You'll never miss the payroll deadline again.
- 1.Automate Time And Attendance
- Upgrade your timekeeping system. TimeWorksPlus automates employee timekeeping for fast...
TimeSimplicity: The Cure for Nurse Staffing Headaches
Today's post is for nurse managers currently using substandard scheduling tools. When caring for patients, nurses live in a world of innovative devices and sophisticated data management systems that have revolutionized the way they execute their jobs. Despite having...
FLSA Overtime Threshold Changes and the Effect on Your Clients
The Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced its final overtime rule, titled Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees. It effectively revises existing regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act...
Case Study: Home Health Agency
Home Health Agency Case Study
Home healthcare agencies have considerable growth opportunities in...
How Can I Speed Up Payroll?
Have your clients integrated payroll and time and attendance? It’s easy and makes things a...
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