CHICAGO (October 01, 2009) – HCF Management Inc., a skilled nursing care and assisted living organization, and a long-standing Kronos® Incorporated customer, has completed its upgrade to version 6.1 of the Kronos Workforce Central® suite. HCF Management is one of nearly 200 customers to go live on the latest version of Workforce Central in the seven months since the product became available.
News Facts

* HCF Management, an existing user of Kronos time and attendance, employee scheduling, and HR and payroll solutions, upgraded to the latest version of the Kronos workforce management suite to further control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity.
* HCF upgraded because of the new device management tools that lowered its total cost of ownership; enhanced ease-of-use features including new self-service employee scheduling; and advanced reporting capabilities.
* By completely automating critical workforce business processes, Kronos has helped HCF achieve bottom-line and quality-care benefits such as:
o Reduction in overtime from five percent to three percent in numerous facilities.
o Elimination of buddy punching, the costly act of employees punching in for one another.
o Active engagement of employees in the scheduling process to increase manager productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and produce more cost-effective schedules.
o Significant reduction of time – from days to a few minutes per day – that employees and managers spend on workforce business processes.

Supporting Quotes

* Lisa A. Kiel, controller, HCF Management, Inc.
“With Kronos, we have already reduced overtime and managed policies across the board effectively. We are looking forward to the added benefits of the new version, which will further reduce the total cost of ownership of the software, and enable our employees and managers to spend minimal time on processes, and instead focus more on resident care.”
* Brian Graves, global practice leader of healthcare, Kronos
“It is critical for skilled nursing care and assisted living organizations that quality care is never compromised – rather enhanced whenever possible – irrespective of macro-economic conditions. We are committed to helping HCF Management achieve this objective by helping it control its largest controllable expense: labor costs, and optimize its biggest asset: labor.”

Source: Kronos