JSE-listed CS Holdings` subsidiary company, CS Frontline, sole Kronos representative in South Africa, has announced the delivery of an improved frontline labour management solution to a wider population by delivering a Microsoft Outlook interface to its Workforce Central Suite. This solution will be available in South Africa from April 2000.
Kronos also released a new version of its Web interface, rounding out its solution by giving businesses more options to automatically capture, integrate and analyse labour data for every employee within their organisation.
Andre Matthysen, MD of CS Frontline and a director of CS Holdings, comments: "We are convinced that the professional workforce in South African has a crucial need for such a system." Traditional labour management systems only cater to a workplace with hourly employees who use badges to record their time and task information. As the workforce has shifted to include more salaried, or "professional" workers, organisations have been relying upon a combination of manual, homegrown and automated systems to collect and calculate time and work data.
"The days of disparate solutions to capture labour data for a diverse workforce are over," says Mark S. Ain, CEO of Kronos. "Today, professional employees represent close to 40% of the U.S. workforce. Businesses need ways to help them realise the same benefits for their entire employee population that they have enjoyed with traditional systems for hourly workers."
Delivering on its vision to help more businesses improve labour productivity, Kronos today announced Workforce Express, Workforce Web and Workforce Manager, adding to its existing array of interaction methods which includes Workforce TeleTime, a telephony solution popular with mobile workers, as well as conventional badge readers for data collection and system access.
Kronos`s Workforce Central interaction methods can be deployed concurrently within an organisation, giving companies the ability to choose preferred methods to meet the different needs of their employees` work environments. "Kronos is enabling knowledge management with its Web and desktop application interfaces," says Jeffrey Kratz, knowledge management industry manager at Microsoft. "Through the extensible capabilities of Microsoft Outlook as the mechanism to collect relevant, timely information from employees, Kronos has developed a powerful solution that addresses the changing workforce."
The JSE-listed CS Holdings group of companies owns Kronos`s interests in South Africa through its CS Frontline subsidiary.
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