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Life at UKG

Unique Abilities: An Interview with ADAPT Member Amber Enadeghe

U Krewer Amber Enadeghe shares a conversation on identity, support, and insights from within the community of people with different abilities at work.
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Are you maximizing your impact? Where HR pros at SMBs need to focus

HR teams at small to mid-sized businesses have a great opportunity to change things for the better - as long as they focus on the right areas.
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5 Tips for Building a Vaccine Management Program at Work

Fine-tuning your vaccine management program? Here are five key tips (plus resources) to keep in mind from chief nurse executive, Nanne M. Finis, RN, MS.
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Workforce Management

Returning to the Office (Or Not): How to Manage Your Workforce Through the Transition

Day by day, do you know where your employees are working? UKG has solutions to manage your workforce – wherever they may be.
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Life at UKG

Meet UKG’s New Industry Marketing Director for Retail & Hospitality

Rob Klitsch joins UKG as the new Industry Marketing Director for Retail and Hospitality. At UKG, Rob will offer his extensive industry knowledge to lead UKG’s marketing strategy across the retail, hospitality, and food service verticals.
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Life at UKG

Happy Birthday, UKG!

All across the world, today we’re celebrating one year since we officially rebranded as UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group). And what a ride it’s been.
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Onboarding

Time Well Spent: How's your employee onboarding experience going so far? 
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Workforce Management

Time is changing: How to responsibly support employees with technology

Time technology has come a long way - see how you can responsibly support your people with the new options uncovered over the past year.
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Workforce Management

Empowering Your People and People Managers to Turn Insights into Actions with Data and Analytics

Making the right decisions today has never been more challenging and critical within healthcare. Fortunately, there are analytic tools that provide a multitude of ways to assist you with informed decision making. Read on to learn how our next generation solution, UKG Dimensions™ Analytics, delivers insights instantly to your frontline and operational people managers so they can confidently make impactful labor decisions backed by data.
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Workforce Management

Lessons Learned: How Allina Health System Reached Epic Performance with UKG Extensions

The last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic have shined a well-deserved spotlight on the ongoing need to have a reliable staffing method to ensure quality patient care. Allina Health System recently shared their experience during this process and discussed how they paired their EPIC system with UKG Workforce Scheduler Extensions for Healthcare to achieve key operational outcomes. Read about their takeaways and lessons learned here!
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Frontline Employees are Speaking Up. Here's What They Want From Work.

No one has felt the effects of the changing landscape of work quite like frontline employees. Discover their evolving needs in this data-packed blog post.
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Staffing: Optimism in the Face of Obstacles

Never is one day the same as the other. That statement couldn’t be more true than in the Staffing industry. It seems that with each passing day there are new curveballs brought on by the pandemic. But it’s not all gloom and doom. Remember the words John Adams spoke, “Every problem is an opportunity in disguise”, and apply it to some silver linings over the past one and a half years. Never is one day the same as the other. That statement couldn’t be more true than in the Staffing industry. It seems that with each passing day there are new curveballs brought on by the pandemic. But it’s not all gloom and doom. Remember the words John Adams spoke, “Every problem is an opportunity in disguise”, and apply it to some silver linings over the past one and a half years.
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Life at UKG

Great Place to Work Joins the UKG Family

Today marks a pivotal moment for UKG: We have acquired Great Place to Work Institute.
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Workforce Management

The 5 modern scheduling realities you need to consider for hourly employees

Scheduling isn't just about operational efficiency - especially when it comes to hourly employees. See what new scheduling realities you need to consider.
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Delivering the Highest Standard of Patient Care With Limited Resources

When all areas of a health care organization are committed to patient care as their goal, a focus on productivity and efficiency is an asset that allows them to improve their patient care.
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How a Proud City Built a Fiscally Sustainable Future

Learn how collaborative leadership, automated systems, and systematic checks and balances formed the basis for achieving what many would have deemed an impossible financial turnaround in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Life at UKG

Everything You Need to Know Before Joining Jacob Morgan at the Next UKG Book Club

What makes Jacob Morgan a 4x best-selling author and go-to keynote speaker among future-focused business leaders? Read on to find out.
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Machine Learning

Time Well Spent: This A.I. is really helping with my decision-making but I don't know why it keeps suggesting breath mints. 
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The Myths, Mystery, and Magic of Big Data in HR

Big data has been a big mystery in the HR world, but why? Join Teresa Smith and Chas Fields as they separate big data facts from fiction.
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Life at UKG

How Interns Can Make the Most Out of Their Experience: 4 Tips from Actual Interns

Internships can be an incredibly valuable journey — if you know how to navigate them. Learn these 4 tips (from actual interns) to make the most out of yours.
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