Offering you Workforce Optimisation Software 

Getting the Most from Workforce Management Software

Businesses choose to update their employee time and attendance systems and rostering software for many reasons. But most are looking for scheduling software offering an accurate, impartial way of paying their staff for hours worked, and use rostering software to avoid outdated, inefficient and potentially inaccurate punch clocks or paper time sheets.

If you are looking into time and attendance software, it needs to be easily understood by all your employees, at all levels of computer literacy. It's also worth purchasing this workforce management software with your company's future expansion in mind, so you can scale your time and attendance software with your organisation's growth.

The best scheduling software also keeps track of time off, and integrates directly with a range of payroll systems. Built-in features allowing staff to receive messages, or allow workers to request time off are part of some rostering software applications. Equally, with some time and attendance systems, sick leave and holidays can be automatically included with hours worked, for easy reporting.

Of course, when you are considering time and attendance systems, security of information is a crucial factor, along with efficiency and affordability. Your scheduling software also needs to be reliable and easy to maintain. With many different types of scheduling software on today's market, bear these points in mind as you choose workforce management software for your organisation.

Time and Attendance Software

At NorthgateArinso, we're one of Ireland's leading providers of workforce management software, 'Optimum' our T&A and rostering software solution can be customised to suit your business's individual needs.

Our time and attendance systems and workforce management software can help you to have the right people with the right skills doing the right job at the time.

Our scheduling software incorporates a range of features. Deployed and used entirely online, our time and attendance software, and aimed at being highly accessible and user-friendly.

The different modules of our scheduling software can operate as stand-alone time and attendance systems or can be integrated into a seamless solution. Optimum, our workforce management software, incorporates time and attendance systems, flexi time, absenteeism reporting, holiday management and staff planning.

Our time and attendance software accommodates all kinds of shift patterns, and our time and attendance systems allow staff to clock on using a web-browser, directly from their computers or from an electronic clocking terminal. With all methods, our time and attendance software allows for automatic calculation, and availability of data in real time.

Our scheduling software also provides information on a monthly or yearly chart to show patterns of leave, other absences and overtime. This means our rostering software can highlight staff shortages at a glance. It doesn't matter how complicated or unusual your employees' shift arrangements are, our rostering software can handle it!

Finally, Optimum workforce management software can alert managers to late arrivals at work, working hours exceeding EU guidelines and impending retirement and ends of contracts.
Find out more about our scheduling software by giving us a call and discussing your requirements, or visiting our website.

Clocks

We provide a wide range of clocking options and solutions to match your business needs. We are distributors for two companies - Feedback Data and AXESS TMC. Feedback is the largest manufacturer and distributor of time and attendance clocks in the UK. We are the only Strategic Business partner in Ireland for Feedback. AXESS TMC is a leading Italian Company specialising in the design and manufacture of Time and Attendance systems.

Clocking Solutions include:

• Clocking terminal with RS 485 hard wired connection
• TCP/IP Clocking terminal on your network
• Clocking terminal with Web services (Requires broadband)
• Clocking terminal with modem (Requires standard phone line)
• Clocking terminal with GSM modem (Requires mobile phone SIM card)
• Web clocking from PC
• Portable clocking devices (PDA based)
• Exception based timesheets (no clocking, manage by exception)
• All terminal types will operate with Magnetic stripe cards, Proximity cards or fobs, Biometric or Smart cards.

Touch Screen Terminals

We also provide the option of touch screen terminals. These are particularly useful where employees may not have their own PC/terminal. Often, the touch screens are located in communal areas such as canteens. Employees can query hours worked, leave etc on the system facilitating employee empowerment and reducing routine queries to HR/Payroll departments.