Our Workforce Solutions

Benefits of Softworks Workforce Solutions to each Department:

Senior Management

• Know the true cost of your employees and can accurately price products & services.
• Have increased knowledge of your workforce and can put steps in place to improve the efficiencies of staff. Can access real-time, accurate information on employee trends to highlight best practices and /or areas for attention.
• Comply with legislation such as the Working Time Directive.

Finance / Accounts

• Helps eliminate needless overtime by improving attendance.
• Gives you a complete picture of employee efficiencies and trends and more accurate reporting of employee and payroll hours and costs.
• Is an integrated solution that result in fewer overheads, thereby increasing profitability.
• Calculates employee costs more accurately.
• Processes payroll more accurately.

HR Department

• Seamlessly integrates with their existing HR system. Automatically tracks attendance infringements.
• Means there are less calls from employees in relation to holiday balances, approval status of leave requests etc.
• Gives HR personnel extra time that was spent on admin tasks, freeing up time for more strategic issues.
• Provides access to real-time reports on employee attendance etc.

Payroll Department

• The payroll process is streamlined. Manual timesheet entries are eliminated.
• Errors in manual calculations are reduced.
• There are less calls to the payroll department from employees querying payslips.
• There is no need to duplicate data entry.
• Employee timesheets stalled in the approval process are automatically identified.
• Errors or omissions can be backdated.
• Any rounding or grace periods for overtime, flexi-balances etc are automatically rounded

IT Department

• Faster roll-out by way of centralised distribution, that can also be web-based.
• A flexible backend database solution.
• A choice of interface.
• Advanced security settings.
• Centralised backup data.
• Automated maintenance routines.

Supervisors / Team Leaders

• Running exception reports such as lists of infringements, unmatched targets, absences, overtime, early out or tardiness. Viewing daily activity reports on employees.
• Looking at trends of employee performance and benchmarking against other departments.
• Tracking employees with similar skill sets, pay grades, training levels etc.
• Producing employee schedules to meet fluctuating levels of demand.
• Receiving automatic email notification and approval status of timesheets, holiday requests and overtime etc

Employees

• Promotes employee self-service by giving employees access to their own T&A info. Provides information to employees working outside main office hours by allowing them to access details via the web.
• Enables employees to see if holiday balances, overtime etc. have been approved.
• Reduces the number of payroll errors improving employee confidence.
• Is an easy to use system that can help organisations put steps in place to facilitate flexitime – an attractive benefit to many employees.

With offices in Ireland, England and Scotland, please feel free to contact us to find out how Softworks Workforce Solutions can benefit your organisation.