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With a strong administrative approach, businesses can grow with a stable core. Investing in a workforce management system will provide your business the tools to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of current workforce processes and offers solutions towards higher efficiency rates and overall prosperity within an industry.  

With saved labor expenses, put efforts towards other business processes to create a well-rounded, functioning organization. This article highlights ways a workforce management system can decrease your business’ labor costs. 

Effectively managing payroll is key for business success. If payroll within your organization is not handled correctly and efficiently, what other aspects of your business are being taken seriously? In the past, payroll was manually accounted for, leaving room for human error. In today’s workforce, paperless payroll, or payroll automation, is most common. This process streamlines payroll operations and combats error in employee time and labor, wages, taxes, withholdings, overtime, vacation, and commissions. 

Now with such a large selection of payroll service providers with competitive price points, the percentage of automated payroll services within businesses is considerably higher. Ranging between all sizes of business, the use of payroll automation is an absolute necessity.

Historically, Public Safety agencies have been required to buy, build, and maintain internal IT infrastructures despite exponential costs. The primary justification for this cost was to control and secure confidential data. However today, dedicated hosting centers for software applications have become a more viable alternative for police, correctional, and fire agencies due to the heightened security and precautions these data centers employ 24/7/365. 

Workforce management systems that are hosted at professional data centers are considered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or cloud computing. Now, agencies can plug in and subscribe to services built on this shared infrastructure via the Internet. In recent years, the benefits of software as a service have become more recognizable because of the following: 

As society becomes increasingly dependent on mobile technology, the ability to do things without it seems to be a distant memory. With mobile technology now at the forefront of communication, whether it be a professional or social setting, there is not much to be accomplished without it. So, if a business is not accessible through a mobile device, it is safe to say they are at a large disadvantage. Technology is always advancing and it's vital for businesses to utilize those advancements to further their workforce. 

Biometric time clocks are improving the way businesses track employees. As technology continues to improve, so can the organizational process of a business. An investment towards strengthening organizational skills in a business by efficiently tracking employee hours results in saving time and money. Now, who would turn that down?  

Tedious processes are never favorable. When there is an opportunity to simplify a task, there is typically no question on whether to make the switch. When it comes to manually scheduling employees, the task can become overwhelming, quickly. With every change, a manual schedule must undergo a scan to make sure all times align, and even then, there is a high chance for mistakes. With a full plate of to-do's, who has time to be manually scheduling employees?