Working Time Solutions Ltd - Softworld HR & Payroll Exhibition - stand 21

An Eagerly anticipated new generation of workforce management systems are set to bring massive benefits to businesses and their employees.

Working Time Solutions Ltd, (WTS),a pioneer in the field of staff and work scheduling software tools and consultancy, is preparing to launch the new and improved WORK Suiteô portfolio of products.

The WORKô products have already earned a far reaching reputation as the most comprehensive software solution available for strategic and tactical workforce management, shift-planning and organisation, and the new WORK Suiteô programmes will further change the face of staff scheduling.

It is a radical workforce management system that satisfies production and service requirements by aligning staffing levels with the peaks and troughs of work demand.

The success of WORK Suiteô has its foundations in advanced software development strategies and methods of working time flexibility pioneered by Manchester-based WTS.

The company is currently carrying out final tests on the ground-breaking WORK Suiteô programmes, which have been further developed using client feedback and market analysis. The software will be ready for market at the beginning of April 2006.

Kevin White of WTS said: ìUsing the system, companies and public service organisations are able to match workforce supply to business demand at the lowest cost, and ensure that staff preferences are accommodated and jobs secured.

ìApplication of the software reduces costly overtime and labour wastage, and gives employees much more acceptable and visible leisure time.

ìWe are very proud of WORK Suiteô. We want to make it better than ever ñ and we are doing that by listening to customers and their feedback.î

ìFor example, the new WORK Suiteô programmes have been enhanced by the introduction of an Intranet-based self-service module, providing end users with the ability to request holidays, trade shifts, book training, and so on, and the managerial console allows for the authorisation of the same.

The functionality of WORK Suiteô has broad appeal across a wide range of industries and services since it can be customised according to almost any individual business requirements.

Kevin added: ìFrom our experience the system will fit in to any organisation of any size.

ìSome sectors which have shown the biggest improvements are hotels, leisure and entertainment; transportation and communications; manufacturing; central and local government and the emergency services.î

Using the latest development tools, the new WORK Suiteô design comprises an increased number of individual sub-systems, and may be utilised as a whole entity, thereby providing a single source of workforce information.

Alternatively, each sub-system can be used as an individual application, according to requirement. The sub-systems are:

Organisation & HR/Personnel Data
Scheduling
Time Management
Contracts
Self-Service & Time Recording
ODeX (Open Data Exchange)
Reporting
Administration

The new and improved WORK Suiteô will provide enhanced, user-friendly operation and speed, but at the same time, will allow for greater complexity of work management options.

It can produce, for example, any, all, or a combination of, traditional and annualised hours schedules, standard daytime schedules and job-share schedules, as required.

Various information options can also be manipulated for the production of management reports and workforce monitoring, including sickness absence, holidays and training.