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Posted on June 8, 2008Workforce Planning Software Can Minimize the Complexity of Workforce Planning
What is workforce planning? Why is it so critical? And how can workforce planning software help? These are the issues we address in this article.
Posted on June 8, 2008Time, Attendance and Electronic Rostering System Can Transform the Workplace Environment
Recording attendance details, and time worked, accurately are not as simple as they might seem. Traditional clock punching has certain drawbacks and can result in highly inaccurate records. For example, a worker's buddy might punch in instead of the...
Posted on June 8, 2008Staff Rostering System Can Range From the Simple to Very Complex
Even the smaller establishments need staff rostering systems if they employ more than a few staff, and the staff members have to work at different times. These establishments, say, a retail store, might do the scheduling using a spreadsheet. In the...
Posted on June 8, 2008Self Rostering Can Produce Demonstrable Benefits
The work environment today has the potential to be very different from what it was even a few years ago. What was just theory earlier has entered the realms of practicality with the advances in Information Technology and Web-based functionality....
Posted on June 8, 2008Nurse Roster Management Is A Critical Task in Health Services
Nurses must be available 24 hours at health care organizations. This means that shift working is an absolute necessity. However, available nurses cannot be arbitrarily rostered to shifts. Nurse roster management must accommodate the constraints on...
Posted on June 8, 2008NHS Bank Administration Reduces Temporary Staffing Costs
NHS or National Health Service is a UK-wide agency that provides healthcare to UK residents. The agency needs a varied mix of skills to meet the large variety of healthcare demands placed upon its centers. At the same time, the individual centers of...
Posted on June 8, 2008Electronic Rostering Can Save Huge Amounts of Time and Money
Electronic rostering or e-rostering is the process of using the computer's power to the task of rostering. Considering that rostering is a routine job of scheduling workers according to pre-determined rules, which can be many, computers can do it...
Posted on June 8, 2008Electronic Timesheet Solution Can Lead to Productivity and Other Benefits
While a simple spreadsheet-based timesheet is also an electronic timesheet, it is Web based solutions that we generally call an electronic timesheet solution these days. A Web-based solution makes the system accessible to all authorized persons...
Posted on June 8, 2008Automated Rostering Can Improve Working Environments and Minimize Employee Costs
Automated rostering is an effort at reducing the complexity and cost of the rostering exercise. In areas such as national healthcare, it is highly important that people with the right skills be scheduled to each shift and ward, while at the same time...
Posted on June 8, 2008Absence Management Is More an Issue of Not Just Ignoring It
Absenteeism is a cost for almost all businesses (except perhaps in totalitarian regimes). Employees can be absent on authorized and scheduled leave to which they are entitled. At other times, they might take unscheduled leave, still within permitted...