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Dec 6, 2021

UKG Announces Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Help Close Gender Pay Gap and Promote Pay Equity

LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) today announced the UKG Close the Gap Initiative — a multimillion-dollar pay equity initiative to drive awareness and action to resolve pay disparity between men, women, and underrepresented groups that continues to significantly impact today’s workforce.

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Dec 2, 2021

Gain in Hours Worked Gauge May Signal Upside in U.S. Jobs Report

Bloomberg | Ultimate Kronos Group’s workforce activity, an index of hours worked and shift data from 3.8 million employees at 35,000 U.S. businesses, rose 1.4% month over month in November after gaining 0.1% in October. During this year’s economic recovery, increases in the UKG indicator in March, June and July have coincided with national job numbers that exceeded economists’ predictions for the corresponding month.

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Dec 1, 2021

UKG Honors Technology and Services Partners of the Year

LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) today announced the recipients of its annual Technology and Services Partners of the Year awards.

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Dec 1, 2021

How Companies are Helping Parents and Caregivers with ‘Work-Life Integration’

Boston Globe | During the pandemic — when 69 percent of working parents reported that helping their kids with remote learning negatively impacted their work performance, according to the employment website Indeed — Mahesh Ganesan needed to help his then-high-school senior with college applications. Ganesan, director of mergers and acquisitions integration at UKG, a Lowell technology company, worried that his son wasn’t receiving enough support remotely from his English teacher during a critical period at school.

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Nov 30, 2021

UKG Workforce Activity Report: November Jobs Growth May Exceed Expectations Based on Accelerating Shift Work Growth

LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | The UKG Workforce Activity Report for November 2021 shows the total number of shifts worked1 by people at U.S. businesses increased 1.4% in the month. This acceleration makes November the third strongest month for shift growth in 2021,

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Nov 30, 2021

UKG Announces Innovation Award Winners at UKG Works Conference

LOWELL, Mass., and WESTON, Fla. | UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) today announced the winners of the 2021 UKG Works Innovation Awards, which recognize customers leveraging people-centric UKG technology in unique ways to solve complex business challenges, add value to their organizations, and create meaningful and connected experiences for their employees.