I’ve been thinking a lot about employee fatigue recently, aided by the widespread media coverage and calls for regulatory reform, and this backdrop may explain why I noticed a subtle sign of our collective exhaustion tucked into a luxury car commercial. The ad, a standard 30 second clip for a slick new Mercedes, boasted about [...]

This phrase has become something of a cliché within the business world, particularly during the rough economic times of the past several years. What was once a phrase which embodied all that was positive about automation – the ability to become more productive and improve the business while consuming fewer resources – has transformed into [...]

If you’ve visited our website, followed us on Twitter or had a conversation with any of the WorkForce Software team members recently, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Vision 2010. When we began planning the event – the company’s first user conference – we wanted to deliver top-notch keynote speakers, to have the majority of the content [...]

Human Resource professionals have a challenging but very important role in any organization. Their actions literally touch the lives of every employee within the company and often times it can be the little things that make a big difference in the overall experience an employee has with the company and makes a statement about the [...]

So you’ve heard the buzz, read all the articles but still haven’t taken the plunge and participated in Twitter conversations?  Time to get off the sidelines and start Tweeting! Twitter is an outstanding way to keep in contact with your peers, expand your network and get “up-to-the-second” information on what’s going on within your industry.  [...]

For the past couple of years, there has been at least some modest level of social media buzz at the HR Technology Conference. This year, however, social media took center stage for many exhibitors and for the organizers of the show as well… including a ‘Twitterversity’ session aimed at helping HR pros to learn more [...]

[HR Technology 2010 - Workforce Software from Laurie Ruettimann on Vimeo.] Great conversations, plenty of networking opportunities and EXTREMELY engaged HR pros who are leveraging technology to resolve some of the most challenging ‘people’ issues facing their organization in decades. By all measures, the 2010 HR Technology Conference is off to a great start. The [...]

Whether you are a seasoned human resource professional or new to the profession, managing employee leave can be one of your most complicated responsibilities. There are hundreds of state leave regulations in place in the US, on top of managing compliance with the highly complex Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) – and many such [...]

Assigning work time and effort costs to sponsored programs (such as grants), accurately tracking time and activities of individual employees with multiple jobs or assignments, intricate and varied pay cycles each month… these are just a few of the activities  that make effective workforce management a challenge for many higher education organizations. Earlier this week [...]

One of the great benefits of being part of an HR technology organization is working with clients, analysts and other members of the HR community to identify trends and develop solutions to current and emerging HR issues. Often times the issues are industry- or company-specific and we have an opportunity to fine-tune functionality to meet [...]