Editor’s Note

Oh, workflow. How we love to hate you! Workforce optimization is one of the most challenging things facing employers in terms of resource allocation and efficiency, where process becomes paramount.

Workforce And Workflow Optimization: Achieving excellence in workforce management

Oh, workflow. How we love to hate you! Workflow is the series of activities necessary to accomplish a task and managing your workforce to deliver a product or service within a workflow is an integral aspect of workflow management.

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Leading From Abroad: Effectively managing distributed teams

The way in which work is performed, as well as where, has a prominent influence over a company’s ability to attract and retain talent. At an increasing rate, work is being done in a distributed fashion.

Brexit And The Contingent Workforce: What Brexit means for immigration and the potential skills gap

Although plans for Brexit forge ahead, exactly what this means for the millions of workers and their employers will depend on how the new prime minister proceeds. At this point, no one really knows how Brexit will unfold, but we offer insight into the reasoning behind the UK’s possible next steps and what they might mean for workers and employers.

Employers Beware: California’s patchwork of local/city minimum wage ordinances

California’s recent minimum wage increase will, over 18 months, create the highest state minimum wage in the U.S. history, by 2023 at $15.00 per hour, when adjusted for inflation. California’s minimum wage will, likewise, exceed the national minimum wage of any country in the world.

How To Create A Work Schedule Template: Check out the factors that affect scheduling

Managing time is a big part of managing people. Creating work schedules is not an easy task. It’s rare that everyone will get the shifts they want. Predicting busy times and arranging for staff accordingly doesn’t always go smoothly.

How To Make Your Time Tracking System More Accurate: 4 tips

Many businesses have a time tracking system but find that their data isn’t always accurate. There are missed punches, time theft, and confusion among staff on how to properly use the system. Instead of being able to mine useable data to improve the business, the time tracking system becomes a source of frustration for upper management and HR.

Why Every HR Team Needs Project Management Tools: The rules of the game

Whether it comes down to a corporate goodbye to everyone’s favorite office elder or a collective hello to a merger casualty, even the most successful of companies would simply be lost without their HR departments.

5 Common Attendance Cheats You Might Overlook: One must know how people cheat to prevent it

Under the assumption that every company has dishonest employees, businesses have to be aware of the tricks and tactics employees deploy to cheat attendance. Time cheating is a crime by law particularly when it involves civil servants. There are cases where people jailed for attendance fraud; hence employees shouldn’t take attendance cheating lightly. To avoid all forms of attendance cheating from happening, one must know the ways these people cheat.