Resources & Insights

According to global retailers, an unplanned absence rate of seven percent wreaks havoc on store operations, including staff productivity and satisfaction.

New retail video on improving employee engagement and your customer’s experience

Kronos Workforce Ready is the cloud-based solution that allows today’s small to mid-sized businesses to gain a competitive advantage with consistent, real-time employee data. Giving you the single-source access you need — across time and attendance, HR, access control and more — to make better, more informed decisions.

Australia’s retail sector is under considerable strain as the internet disrupts traditional business models and companies come to grips with an ageing population and changing consumer demographics. As these trends increase competition and place pressure on revenues, the question must be asked whether workers in this industry can ‘work to live’ or whether they’re being irrevocably forced to ‘live to work’?

This survey from the Workforce Institute at Kronos has uncovered that the opportunity cost of ineffective employee engagement is huge and the risk of ignoring it can seriously affect ANZ’s time poor, yet ambitious small and medium sized businesses. In this report, we explore the most important aspects of the employee engagement debate.

The Kronos® Workforce Forecast Manager™ for Retail allows managers to accurately forecast business volume and labour allocations.

The Workforce Task Management™ solution simplifies store execution management.  Now, key stakeholders in the store execution process – task creators, gatekeepers, managers  and corporate – all have access to exactly the right level of information they need to perform their roles. As a result, they can raise productivity, improve customer satisfaction  and increase sales.

Download this eBook and learn how every employee in your company - from sales to department heads, IT and business staff - with the use of technologies to maximise productivity, can increase efficiency. With the support of Kronos for Retail, we can help your organisation in securing an advantage over your competitors and banish old-fashioned solutions.

Workforce Budgeting™ — part of the Kronos® for Retail workforce management suite — addresses budgeting challenges by giving retailers a more accurate and collaborative way to perform sales and labor planning.