Workforce Management
Workforce Management: Time Is of the Essence, Time Is a Valuable Thing
Companies struggle to manage time even though time is of the essence. Always has been, always will be. That phrase, “Time is of the essence,” is something you hear occasionally in films and TV shows when things are about to heat up, but it’s also a legal term meaning that one party is contractually obligated...Read more
The Time Has Come for a Better Way to Check the Time
It’s time to talk about time tracking and scheduling. The time-space continuum may not depend on it, but your clients’ businesses will. Quanta Magazine recently published a report on the evolution of theories involving space and time. In one article in the series, the author wrote: Many physicists “think reconciling Albert Einstein’s general theory of...Read more
Workforce Management is the Gift that Keeps on Giving this Holiday Season
As spiders and pumpkins get replaced with ribbons and lights, and well before carolers start warming up their voices, many companies—including probably some of your clients—will be shopping for better ways to staff up for the holidays. Ho-ho-hold on there … It appears nearly a third of you have already started your holiday shopping, at least according to...Read more
Workforce Management: Don’t Be on the ‘Fence’ About Geofencing
Have you ever been on the “fence?” No, we don’t mean the “tough decision” fence—we mean a “geofence” to be more precise. Since geofencing is all about precision, it’s actually the perfect segue to better people management. Geofencing is a virtual boundary that is created using either GPS or radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology. If you’ve...Read more
Workforce Management: The ‘Building Blocks’ of a More Efficient Organization
If you build it … When you hear about remote construction and remote skilled labor jobs, you realize pretty quickly the workforce is changing. Quickly and often profoundly, too. Much of today’s reimagined workplace is being constructed with younger employees in mind. That’s because, as Julie Lee—a director at Harvard Alumni for Mental Health—told the...Read more