Workforce Central 6.1 includes hundreds of features and ease-of-use enhancements and underscores Kronos’ commitment to deliver solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity.
James Thomas, Country Manager, India said, “At Kronos we’ve developed a unique perspective on what it takes for an organization to successfully deploy a workforce management solution.  Our belief is that integrated workforce management in real time doesn’t have to be so hard, and that organizations shouldn’t have to trade functionality for simplicity.  Workforce Central strikes an ideal balance of deep functionality combined with a range of ease-of-deployment, ease-of-use and cost-of-ownership enhancements.”

Thomas commented about the product’s availability in India, one of the fastest-growing economies in the world with a labor force of 509 million. Thomas added, “We bring a unique perspective to the Indian market & Organizations in India stands to benefit greatly from the value that Workforce Central 6.1 delivers.  We help organizations control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity all at the same time centrally in real time. These are important business issues in normal times, and even more during tough economic times.”

Workforce Central 6.1 supports India’s Factories Act & Shops and Establishment Act, whereby manufacturers and services organizations are required to maintain time-related registers and statutory reports for employees. To help organizations comply with these regulations and minimize compliance risk in a simple and configurable out-of-the-box way, Workforce Central 6.1 provides legislated working time reports, as well as new features to monitor overtime and time-based pay codes on a daily and hourly basis making it easier for organizations to manage their workforce in compliance with to Indian labor practices.
Additional enhancements in Workforce Central 6.1 include:

Kronos talks of delivering a completely configurable solution with full workforce management functionality out-of-the-box. Configurable software equals fast, low-cost, and predictable implementations that save time and money. Recognizing the inherent deficiencies of ERP-based solutions, more and more organizations are turning to Kronos. In response to this growing demand, Workforce Central 6.1 introduces Workforce Integration Manager, a new integration tool which makes it easier for organizations to integrate their Kronos applications with existing ERP, payroll, and human resources systems.

Kronos has revealed that it has invested heavily in 6.1 to expand the list of supported third-party tools, streamline on-going maintenance, and significantly reduce the size of its application footprint.