Workforce-management system boosts efficiency at Sysco. Issue 6 (10th August 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Is Part Of: Human resource management international digest. Volume 23:Issue 6(2015)
• Page Start: 18
• Page End: 20
• Publication Date: 2015-08-10
• Subjects: Personnel management -- Periodicals; 658.3124
• DOI: 10.1108/HRMID-07-2015-0112
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0967-0734

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Purpose</title> <p> – Observes how two companies are benefiting from a new workforce-management system. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Design/methodology/approach</title> <p> – Examines how new software is helping the Sysco Group and Scan Computers. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Findings</title> <p> – Shows how the two companies are better able to track each employee's working hours and absences including sickness and time-off, to make things easier when it comes to things like payroll and holiday entitlement. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Practical implications</title> <p> – Reveals that the biometric employee-attendance software uses fingerprint identification to track employees' whereabouts throughout the working day. The software can cope with any type of work pattern and calculate overtime using its script engine. </p> </sec> <sec> <title content-type="abstract-heading">Originality/value</title> <p> – Explains that, with so many companies opting for flexible working hours or rotational shifts, the software makes these easier to put into practice.</p> </sec> </abstract>