Maintaining productivity within the workplace is often difficult. Between fostering creativity in the marketing department, optimizing efficient workspace in your support and operations areas as well as streamlining sales workflows, ensuring each department is set up to maximize performance can help keep your departments aligned with one another in order to achieve forecasted goals. To […]
Managing and monitoring manual time and attendance processes can be a time consuming task. For example, Payroll taxes: Represent withholdings of employee earnings Are due when wages and other forms of compensation (reported as W-2 earnings) are paid to employees Are held in trust by the business for the employee To optimize your employee time-tracking, […]
People often misinterpret the role of a forecaster as someone who is able to predict the future. The truth is – nothing is certain and what we do in the present often unfolds in the future in unexpected ways. Unlike a prediction, a forecast must have logic to it. Moreover, an effective forecaster must be […]
As a supervisor or manager, it can be difficult to get a clear picture of the costs related to absenteeism. Understanding how administrative complexities directly affect your team, can improve your attendance program. The items listed below, for example, all lead to increased costs for a company: Lost productivity Manual scheduling Overtime Unexcused absences Manual Data […]
With hundreds of employees to manage, automation and flexibility can be a key to maintaining a successful workflow. For many manufacturing companies, the complexity of managing their employees’ production levels as well as their time and attendance across multiple locations can be overwhelming. A cloud-based time and attendance system can provide you with advanced features […]
Buddy punching, inaccurate time records, and non-work-related activities are three examples of how productivity levels can be affected within the workplace. Often times, business owners look for solutions to build and grow their company from outside resources instead of reviewing internal processes to improve it. Avoid the shiny new object syndrome by assessing your internal […]
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For many professionals, the phrase “cloud-based computing” has become synonymous with business-as-usual, and the promises that come with the cloud, such as rapid deployment, faster services, and greater connectivity, are baked into many modern work environments. However, less than a decade ago, the concept of the cloud was still new and fairly novel for many […]
Read More >Do you remember the proposed overtime changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in 2016? Once in effect, the rule was predicted to extend overtime protections to 4.2 million workers who were not previously eligible under federal law. Plenty of workers were excited about the changes, while many companies were a little concerned. And one sector that […]
Read More >Between the country’s economic growth and the record low unemployment rate of 4.1%, times are looking good for many companies and workers. Now wages are starting to nudge upwards too. According to recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data, average hourly earnings moved up nearly 3% from a year ago. This means that more money is […]
Read More >How stratustime Works
stratustime tracks employee hours through PCs, mobile devices, and POS systems, then automatically transmits time and attendance data to your payroll service. Advanced features like scheduling, PTO accrual, and labor forecasting give HR managers and payroll specialists more time to focus on people instead of data entry.