UKG Workforce Central (discontinued)

Formerly Kronos Workforce Central

I worked for a healthcare company with a little over 200 employees. My primary use was in HR as well as time management. It helped me to track employees time and attendance, track trends and employee disciplinary problems with time and attendance and to track expected overtime.

Kronos Workforce Central is used by each one of the properties that we manage. We are in the hospitality industry, and our hotels use this software every day to record, approve, and report time. Kronos is a trusted provider of timekeeping software and solutions that has only gotten stronger with time. What I like about the suite is that it comes in desktop and mobile versions. The desktop is all-intuitive giving each user the ability to navigate across workspaces, or tab groups that allow them to access different segments of the software. For instance, the My Information tab is the one-stop dashboard that all employees can access to view their swipe entries, requesting time off, and view their pending request. At the management level, other tabs for Payroll and Timeclock Setup can be accessed, and each tab gives the user a good set of tools to aid in decision making.

I used Workforce Central as a Manager in a retail environment where we managed over 200 employees scheduling and time off requests. At a glance, we were able to keep track of their attendance, see how much time they have logged for a certain period, approve time off requests and more. It was easy to collaborate with the other managers and was a smooth learning curve.

Workforce Central was used throughout our organization, which encompassed our main hospital in Bethel, Alaska as well as 50 village clinics that were spread-out across the "bush" of western Alaska. The business problem that Workforce Central addressed was the HR / Payroll and Time & Attendance management of our employees, regardless of the location of the staff. Considering that we had no road connecting our main hospital in Bethel to our village clinics, the accurate management of these functions with an electronic system was imperative for accurate and timely payroll.

Kronos WFC Suite is our core timekeeping application that is being used by over 10,000 employees, in addition we use the Kronos WFC Suite for HR and it serves as our system of record for all employee data.

We are using workforce central to replace the use of papertime cards. It is being used by all departments with hourly employees and we are in the process of implementing our salary employees for the use of accruals. We feel that this is a more reliable way to keep track of peoples hours, sick and vacation time. With the use of biometrics this will allow us to know that people are not clocking other employees in.

Workforce Insight (WFI) is one of the largest Workforce Management partners of Kronos. WFI's business offerings cover a wide range of professional services for the Kronos Workforce Central suite in multiple workforce management domains. Services cover everything from Implementation, Technical & Architectural Components, Strategic Alignment to Optimization of WFC. Clients range from single facility to multi state and international corporations ranging from 500-1.5 million employees.

PeopleSoft is our database of record. Records for hourly (and a small group of salaried) employees are exported from PeopleSoft and imported into Kronos via a Data Integration Interface. Employee data and schedules are pushed out to the timeclocks. The clocks scan fingerprints to verify that the correct employee is using the device. Kronos then records the employees' punches and reports schedule deviations to the appropriate supervisor. The Payroll Department extracts time and attendance files to upload into PeopleSoft for payroll processing.

My former employer had Kronos devices deployed for hourly employees to clock in/out of their shifts. The product was used by managers of those employees across the organization to review and approve time entered by the employees. The HR team and my former team would ensure that the data entered was pulled from Kronos and loaded to Oracle for our Payroll process. This provided accurate time recording for our hourly employees and saved the company money resolving disputes on time entered.

WFC was used as a timekeeping software for their main workforce. It was used to manage unexcused and excused time off, lunches, break, lateness and early departures. It also used aggregate time to calculate accumulated paid time off.

KRONOS Workforce Central is being used across the whole organization as its primary timekeeping tool. This tool helps address accurate time keeping of the workforce along with PTO management.

Kronos Workforce Central is used across the University and is the timekeeping system of record for all hourly employees. Workforce Central was selected to replace a legacy, in-house developed system that was nearing end of life. The Kronos Workforce Central solution provided additional functionality, while also allowing the University to apply a consistent application of rules for rounding, leave tracking, and compensatory time tracking.

Workforce central is being used by the entire HR department for time/scheduling management and payroll. It helps to eliminate any discrepancies between employee and manager regarding time or scheduling.