Jan 31, 2013, 8:00am

Kronos Incorporated today announced a series of enhancements to its fast-selling cloud workforce management suite for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The Kronos^® Workforce Ready™ suite enables SMBs to stay competitive by providing an enterprise-class human resources, payroll, and time and attendance platform in the cloud, for simplified access to and management of real-time employee data.

News Facts

• Enhancements to Workforce Ready include:
  • Improved employee self-service features that enable employees to view schedules, review punches, make and display time-off requests, and display pay statements all on the revolutionary Kronos InTouch™ time clock.
  • Enhanced mobile capabilities including more flexible geo-fencing capabilities that enable organizations to be more precise about the location where employees punch in and out from a mobile device, and the ability to review and approve timecards from a mobile device.
  • New overtime pay calculation settings that provide more detailed information and allow for better planning.
  • Additional pay rules including expanded holiday hours and guaranteed hours per week.
  • Support for French language (joins support for Spanish and English).
• Capitalizing on its hosted multi-tenant architecture, Workforce Ready uses a simple SaaS-based pricing approach. Applications are available on a per-employee, per-month basis, accompanied by fixed-price implementation services.

Supporting Quotes

• Mark Ellis, general manager, small business, Kronos
  “The latest updates to Workforce Ready are designed to help small and midsize businesses more effectively manage their workforces. Enhanced employee self-service, more mobile capabilities, and the ability to use out-of-the-box functionality for more specialized needs are highlights of this release. These Workforce Ready enhancements will give organizations an even greater competitive advantage. We are thrilled to see there is such an appetite in the market for our solution and expect that sales will continue to rise.”

Supporting Resources

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• Subscribe to our workforce management blogs.
• Take a look at the lighter side of workforce management in our Time Well Spent cartoons.

About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos is the global leader in delivering workforce management solutions in the cloud. Tens of thousands of organizations in more than 100 countries — including more than half of the Fortune 1000^® — use Kronos to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. Learn more about Kronos industry-specific time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, HR and payroll, hiring, and labor analytics applications at www.kronos.com. Kronos: Workforce Innovation That Works™.

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