Why do we talk about workforce management and not just time management?

We’ve been automating these tasks for a long time now. For many companies, these processes are already in place, even if they are not necessarily digitized. An essential first step, but insufficient today, especially in the context of high mobility and remote working.

HR needs have evolved towards strategic business planning: what is the workload, what staffing levels are available, what are the gaps between needs and mobilized resources…? With the possibility of checking at the end of the cycle that everything has been done correctly.

This shift from compliance to anticipation has significantly broadened the scope of time management. The result is a very open solution, to which everyone has access.

We can distinguish three main types of user: employees (who can exchange activity windows with their colleagues, enter their vacations, etc.), managers for whom the application becomes a dashboard, and HR managers, who are responsible for all these processes.

Workforce Management applications require little training for users, and are intuitive and easy to learn. Our HR customers, who are keen on digital transformation, see them as the embodiment of “useful digital”.

The greater the number of employees, the more the subject is at the heart of the company’s concerns. Beyond a few hundred people, valuable time and productivity are lost if tasks are not automated.

Depending on your sector of activity, scheduling is more or less difficult. This is the case in the distribution and retail banking sectors and retail banking sectors, where the sheer number of establishments makes the stakes very high. Generally speaking, if you have physical points of sale, the stakes are high. The same applies to businesses subject to seasonal variations.

“There are three types of user: employees, managers and HR directors. After email, this is undoubtedly the application that employees open most often!”

A Workforce Management solution is part of the toolbox of a 21st century company. This enterprise is collaborative, data-driven and exemplary in providing its employees with intelligently constructed applications that simplify their daily lives and help them to work better. As you can see, time and activity management is just one component of a Workforce Management solution: as the latter touches on forecasting, planning and performance measurement, it generates infinitely more value.