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Mental Health Network Uses UKG to Improve Operations, Elevate Service While Growing by 30%

LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | UKG today announced that Coast Mental Health, a nonprofit provider of support and services to people living with mental illness, is leveraging the power of the UKG human capital management (HCM) suite to address the complexities of its unionized workforce, inspire employee productivity, and boost the quality of the organization’s services.
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Healthcare Provider Simplifies HR Processes, Achieves Annual Cost Savings with UKG Ready HCM Suite

LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | UKG today announced that EmergeOrtho, the largest physician-owned orthopedic practice in North Carolina, has simplified HR processes, achieved time and cost savings, and is creating a patient-focused employee experience with the UKG Ready HCM suite
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UKG Workforce Activity Report: August Shift Work Acceleration Withers Amid Surge of Summer Vacations, Delta Variant

LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | The UKG Workforce Activity Report for August 2021 shows workplace activity as measured by high-frequency employee shift work data declined by 2.4% — a larger decline than experienced in August 2020 (-0.3%) and August 2019 (0.0%).
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A Major Tech Gap Could Impede the Hybrid Work Transition

Forbes | When many workplaces were forced to go virtual in early 2020, the tools and technology they needed already existed. The main challenge was adopting them quickly and updating longstanding processes. For a workplace where some employees are together in the same office and some aren’t, there’s a significant gap in communication, productivity and engagement tools.
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How ‘Gray Collar’ Workers Became the Overlooked Essential Employee

Employee Benefit News | “They have been hiding in plain sight,” says Cecile Alper-Leroux, vice president at research and innovation company UKG. “This huge, critical labor force.” The term “gray collar” was first coined in 2004 and compared to its blue and white counterparts, it is entirely a product of a modernized workforce.
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Relinquish Outdated Management Models to Power People the Right Way

Forbes | Cecile Alper-Leroux, a 20+-year HR tech veteran, is UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) Group VP of Research and Innovation. While academic theorists have for some time championed the idea that a company’s primary stakeholder is its employees, the multiple crises of the past year and a half have elevated just how vital people are to our overall economic and business survival.
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