The "Kronos Guy" Blog

Controlling your labor costs. Minimizing your compliance risk. Improving your productivity. If you're a manager, these goals are top of mind when it comes to implementing or upgrading a Workforce Management (WFM) platform. But what you may not be focused on during this major internal change is the emotional undercurrent among employees in response to that change.  

This year more than 2,500 Kronos® technology experts, customers, and partners gathered at the Aria Las Vegas to access the inside track on how technology and humanity are merging to transform both the workforce (WFM) and human capital management (HCM) arenas.

The wait is finally over.... Once again, it is time for our monthly Improv Learning post! If you haven't tuned in to Improv Learning before - we share short video clips on our blog and YouTube page designed to help Kronos managers better learn how to navigate their Kronos application. The videos will be specifically aimed towards Kronos Version 8.0 - so if you have any specific questions or interests, be sure to comment at the end of this blog!  

There’s a lot to be excited about in workforce management technology. There are faster, smarter, more profitable tools being released into the marketplace every day and Kronos Dimensions is leading that pack. So, it’s easy to get excited and want to migrate as fast as possible.

No doubt there’s a lot about Kronos’ new Workforce Dimensions platform that’s grabbed our attention; some of which we outlined last week. But a few of the features that stand out the most in making the platform so powerful for users are its D5 cloud platform and the combination of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).

Fear is a powerful thing. In business, fear can paralyze and pin us to the status quo. And other times, fear can make us storm into the future with both barrels. Without a doubt, Kronos chose the latter to help fuel its development of Workforce Dimensions, a next-generation Workforce Management (WFM) software that’s positioned to be an industry game changer. 

It’s not your imagination. Everything about the workforce is changing at warp speed. Millennials — the twenty-something generation of employees now pouring into the workforce — accomplish their work differently and managers are expected to create work environments that echo these changes. Millennials are tech-savvy multi-taskers redefining the way we work. They value flexibility over job security and collaboration over solo problem solving. They prefer (whenever possible) to chuck the cubicle and work remotely. Millennials expect their workplace and the technology in it to keep up with their needs and echo their lifestyle values.