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Kronos Workforce Central Software
 | 2 Reviews (4.4/5) |
Kronos Workforce Central is a complete set of human resource and workforce management applications including Kronos HRMS, payroll, time and attendance, absence management, scheduling and more. Thousands of companies and millions of users in more than sixty countries use Kronos software every day to effectively manage their most important resource - their employees. In fact, the system is in place at more than half of Fortune 1000 organizations.
Kronos released the latest version of its workforce management suite, Workforce Central 6.3, on November 7, 2011. The new version continues to make employees more productive and includes strategic enhancements in a few key areas. New workforce planning features, along with the Kronos timekeeping system, give managers better insight into labor demands, worker availability and scheduling across the organization. Using Kronos' advanced scheduler, they can more easily balance resources with workload requirements. Also, changes to the award-winning user interface, the Kronos Navigator, include one-click access to frequently used features and a customizable, employee self-service portal.
Kronos' suite of fully-integrated applications is 100% Web-based, whether you opt for on-premise licensed installation, managed services or a hosted solution. The system's flexibility of deployment means it will meet your business needs, both now and in the future.
Workforce Central is an agile solution that can easily be adapted to meet the needs of your unique business. Kronos' pricing options are flexible, and the system is ideal for organizations of all sizes. The company was founded in 1977, so you can rest assured knowing you’re partnering with an established and trusted software vendor. They also offer a variety of educational, training, implementation and system optimization services to ensure that you get the software up and running quickly and maximize your return on investment.
Recent News
- To continue providing innovative workforce planning tools for its users, the vendor released a new labor analytics feature on April 24, 2012, called Workforce Analytics. As more users rely on big data and labor analysis to report return on investment, costs savings and workforce productivity, they can now turn to Kronos to evaluate trends in real time. The ability to use Workforce Analytics in conjunction with a company's existing business intelligence applications only enhances users' visibility into the organization's workforce.
- Kronos announced two acquisitions in early 2012, starting with SaaShr--a leader in small and midsize business workforce management--in March 2012, followed by the acquisition of UK-based SMART Computer Holdings in April 2012. These moves will make its solutions more accessible to organizations based in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
- To further broaden the company's reach, in November 2011 the company announced a cross-selling relationship with Saba to offer a more comprehensive workforce life-cycle solution for businesses within the retail, life sciences and manufacturing industries. By combining Saba's recruiting and talent management applications with Workforce Management and Kronos scheduling and time tracking modules, organizations can enhance employee onboarding, training and compliance.
2 Reviews of Kronos Workforce Central
We have been using Kronos Workforce Central for seven years after leaving legacy software. We implemented version 5 in a very quick five months, corresponding to a big bang ERP install. We have since upgraded to version 6. Kronos worked with us on both the install and the upgrade. We have high regards for the software and their implementation services, particularly in the area of writing pay rules. We have complete history of our employees' attendance since the beginning of our install period, something we did not have previously without maintaining separate spreadsheets and attendance forms.
We use Kronos clocks and find the functionality simple to use, along with controlling where employees clock.
In 2001 we purchased our first Kronos product which was the TKC 3A time clock system. It was to upgrade our clock system and only used to capture worked time to be exported to our HR/Payroll system. At this time payroll handled any employee issues in regard to their worked time. In 2005 we upgraded to WFC 5.0 with Bio-metric clocks. We also moved the time keeping responsibilities to the departments. Payroll trained them how to use the system and retained a support role.
About the same time our HR/Payroll vendor decided to move the accruals out of the payroll software and create a new product (additional cost) called Absence Management. We decided we should check out our options and looked at the Kronos Absence Management products. It made more sense to have the accruals, attendance and leave in the same system that already held the schedules and actual clock times. We purchased Kronos Absence Management in 2006. These products created accuracy and consistency in how attendance rules were applied across the company.
Now we had the employees taken care of and started to look for products that could increase our productivity. We upgraded to 6.0 and installed Analytics and Advanced Scheduler in 2008. This gave us the opportunity to schedule staff according to business need without having to use a file drawer of historical information.
In 2009 we were looking to advance our HR/Payroll capabilities. We wanted on-line applications through our web-site and self-service for employees and managers. The Kronos HR/Payroll products gave us the options we wanted at a better price than our current vendor could give. We implemented the HR/Payroll products with 6.0 in 2010 and upgraded to 6.2 in 2011.
Our implementations and upgrades have varied in length and intensity depending on what we were working with. The Advanced Scheduler and HR/Payroll implementation were the most demanding due to the options available in the scheduler and the amount of data being converted for HR/Payroll. We always use Kronos staff for implementations and have found them to be knowledgeable about their product, the area they cover (timekeeper, HR, etc.) and are customer-friendly. Once the project is complete we depend on our Plus Support team, who know us personally and are always responsive and know the products well.
We use the "train the trainer" method. Certain members on our staff learn the process and then teach the rest of the users. Since Kronos is so intuitive, it is an easy process for us.
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