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Employee Experience
On-Demand Pay: A Strategic Lever for Employee Recruitment and Retention
DailyPay's PayEx platform offers game-changing benefits for employers and employees alike!
Life-Work Trends
HR in 2030 and Beyond, A Look Ahead: Robots, Data, and Personalization (Oh My!)
Explore what the future of HR might look like and what technology may change everything 20 years from now.
Life at UKG
Together, Twice as Powerful
UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) has doubled the power of the Technology Partner Solutions to our customers.
Employee Experience
3 steps to start building a resilient frontline workforce
Resilience has gone from a buzzword to business imperative this year. Elevated health and safety measures. Nonstop process and policy changes. Aggravated and misinformed customers. The frontline workforce is not traditionally prepared for these challenges. Event-based, analogue communication and training have proven to be no match for the disruption wrought by global pandemic.
HR
Change, grief, and HR: Recognizing how cycles of change affect your people
It turns out change management and the cycles of grief have a lot in common. See how HR can use this knowledge to connect with people.
Workforce Management
Frontline Tools for the Frontline Workforce
An employee self-service revolution has taken place for desk-based employees. Now, employers are equipping frontline workers with the same capabilities.
Employee Experience
Simple Steps to Put Your Employees on a Path to Financial Wellness
Employee financial wellness has become a top priority. Here are free ways your company can help.
Payroll
Time is Money
Time Well Spent: Earned wage access makes time flexible, making it a critical benefit for you and employees alike.
Workforce Management
Integrated Absence Management – a Game Changer for HR
Application programming interface (API) technology is poised to revolutionize HR as it has already done for other sectors of the economy.
Life at UKG
Say Hello to UKG
Building on 70 years of experience from two leaders in HR solutions, UKG combines the strength and innovation of Ultimate Software and Kronos.
Workforce Management
Drive Business Continuity in Manufacturing: Enable Operational Agility
Facing operational disruption and market uncertainty, manufacturers must focus on what’s in their span of control.
Employee Experience
The Changing Landscape of Distribution: Present and Future Impact
The current pandemic has sped up business transformation like no other time in modern history. The impact has been felt across nearly every industry, with the speed of digital transformation leading the charge. FedEx has stood out in their response to these challenges. Listen to our recorded webinar that features expert insight from FedEx and Kronos on how workforce technology can help distribution organizations deliver on business strategies while keeping employees and customers safe.
Life-Work Trends
The direction of COVID-19 recovery: Did US shiftwork really grow in August?
What looks like a US shiftwork recovery in August may actually be a mirage according to Kronos data. See why in our latest report.
Life-Work Trends
The Fourth Wave of Innovation and Leadership
The Fourth Industrial Revolution was inevitable, but has it changed course in 2020? Janine Nicole Dennis explores its latest evolution.
HR
3 obvious and 3 hidden HR challenges the return to work will bring
HR's attention is shifting to the return to work - make sure you're considering all the right angles to help employees come back smoothly.
Life-Work Trends
Small businesses lag behind large ones in COVID-19 shiftwork recovery
Small businesses are closing twice as often as large ones due to COVID-19. Here are the trends we're seeing in our workforce activity data.
UKG Workforce Institute
A 5-Step Framework for Managing Organizational Change
Workforce Institute board member Sharlyn Lauby writes about how as much as organizations and individuals want to return to “normal”, there are probably going to be aspects of business that change for a very long time, if not forever and why might not be terrible.
Workforce Management
Will K-12 Students Experience a Learning Loss due to Virtual Learning?
Delayed reopening plans bring about a new fear: are students going to experience significant learning loss?
Employee Experience
Drive Business Continuity in Manufacturing: Accommodate the New Employee Experience
While disruptions in business operations, the supply chain, and finances have been significant, employers must recognize their workforce is facing a different reality at home and at work.
Talent
How crisis changes open enrollment - and 7 ways HR can still succeed
There's no doubt open enrollment will be different this year, but that doesn't mean it can't be successful. Here are some ideas for HR to consider.
