The Kronos Guy Blog

You did your homework, found and pitched the best solution, and spent countless hours making sure your Kronos platform’s rollout was epic. But months, even years later, your Kronos ROI isn’t where you hoped.

Don’t worry. You chose the right software platform and your rollout was impressive for sure. But the one element — the critical, ROI-generating element — you may have overlooked? Training. Not just the basic training that came with your WFM purchase but the comprehensive, customized training that supports your people and your workforce requirements for the long run.

You may not be able to control a lot of external factors that hit your business but you can control your labor costs and the degree of efficiency within your four walls. If you are a Kronos Workforce Central (WFC) 8.0 user, the New Year is the perfect time to zero in on — and optimize — the power tools within your platform so you can see positive changes in your workflow this year.

If you are a retailer dealing with post-holiday customer traffic — and still spinning from holiday traffic — you may be feeling the fatigue of scheduling right about now if you haven’t taken the time to fully utilize Kronos’ Advanced Scheduler.

It’s a remarkable statistic that most companies use less than 50% of their Kronos software functionality, which, if you think about it, is a lot like owning a Ferrari and never breaking 55 mph, right?

With that statistic mind, we’re proposing — okay, strongly suggesting — three game-changing resolutions for Kronos users in 2019.

“First we’ll make snow angels for two hours, and then we’ll go ice skating, and then we’ll eat a whole roll of Toll House cookie dough as fast as we can, and then we’ll snuggle." ~ Elf 

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Congratulations, you’ve made it to the peak of the holidays with cheer to spare! No more deadlines to hit, no emails to return, just a hot toddy, Bing Crosby crooning, and — hopefully — a chance to relax and hit reset in the days ahead.  

It’s the most wonderful time of the year but also the most hectic if you are a human resource or payroll manager scrambling to get everything in place for a smooth year-end.

There’s no getting around it. You’ve been given a mandate to streamline labor costs and meet current compliance regulations. Sounds great, only you have a dozen different shift and union variables that span multiple business units. Your workforce management software isn’t configured to meet this tall directive. You need additional resources and you need them like yesterday.