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Manufacturing Needs Women in STEM
Facing a skilled talent shortage, manufacturers must act now to increase the representation of women in the workforce by embracing and supporting STEM education for girls and young women.
Workforce Management
Everything Has Changed: Is Your Data Ready for the Future?
When so much around your business has changed, is your data more or less valuable? Are you looking forward or backwards?
Workforce Management
Higher Ed’s Top IT Issues: Restore, Evolve, Transform
EDUCAUSE has released its Top IT Issues of 2021. This ever-popular report produced each year helps institutions prioritize their goals, projects, and budgets. This year, they took a different approach and focused on how the role of technology will affect pandemic recovery.
Workforce Management
NOW AND THEN: A UKG Customer Shares Their Experiences
Launching UKG Dimensions™ can mean a fresh start and new opportunities. Take a look at a customer’s experiences and important differences between UKG Dimensions versus UKG Workforce Central.
Life at UKG
Purpose Partnered With the Spirit of Inspiration and Sportsmanship
The drive to win isn't the only thing shared between work and sports. The golden thread between the two is something much stronger — purpose.
Workforce Management
Logistics and Distribution Workers: Unsung Heroes Among Us
We’re nearly a year into the pandemic and we’ve learned a lot about the human spirit and ingenuity. We are thankful for the logistics and distribution workers, who are unsung heroes among us, working tirelessly on the front lines to help supply the timely delivery of essential goods to those in need. The challenge is two-fold, with the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine and never before seen numbers of eCommerce orders.
Workforce Management
When Overtime is Necessary, Make Sure It’s Equitable
It’s important to try and reduce unplanned and unnecessary overtime. But when overtime is unavoidable, it’s important ensure fairness and equity when it comes to opportunities for employees.
Workforce Management
Manufacturing’s Sustainability Journey: HCM Technology Can Help (Really!)
This is the first of a 2-part blog series that will discuss how adopting digital human capital management technology can support a manufacturing organization’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) agenda.
Workforce Management
Achieving operational wellbeing in 2021
Operational wellbeing should be measured differently in 2021. Here's how to start getting there at your organization in the new year.
Workforce Management
Finding the Silver Lining: 5 Ways Technology Has Helped Manufacturers Adapt in 2020
With a year as tumultuous as 2020, it’s important to find the silver linings. For many of us, that silver lining is technology. Here are 5 ways that technology proved to be a silver lining for manufacturers.
Workforce Management
What Happens when a WFM Platform-as-a-Service meets a Field Services Platform-as-a-Service
Solutions with the ability to interact seamlessly help you solve your business problems more completely than ever before. Because of their flexibility, a solution that seems focused on a single use case can deliver benefits to other industries quickly!
Workforce Management
Building a Safety Culture Drives Business Continuity in Manufacturing
Manufacturers can build a safer, more inclusive workplace for their employees by streamlining the flow of information from management to the frontline.
Workforce Management
A Key Component to Economic Recovery is Understanding Shift Growth
Business leaders need reliable sources of information to prepare for the future ahead. Learn which resources are trusted by HR consultant, Sharlyn Lauby.
Workforce Management
Holiday Break: The Perfect Time to Catch-Up
There is no complete rest for the weary, but this winter break is the perfect opportunity for educators to take stock of the year and catch up.
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5 Items on the Frontline Manufacturing Workforce’s Holiday Wish List
Want to make sure you’re keeping your manufacturing workforce engaged and retaining top talent? Get them everything on their workplace wish list this year.
Workforce Management
Banking in the Time of COVID-19: The End of Lines?
Waiting in lines may be a thing of the past. That’s one silver lining of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Although lines, aka queues, have always been considered a necessary evil, there’s hope for them to be non-existent in our near future. The need to avoid them has been expedited due to the concern over social distancing.
Life at UKG
UKGWorks 2020, Connect Technology Partner Sponsors Booths, Experience Breaks, Raffles, Games & More...
Seeking new ideas and technologies to help your organization navigate the future of work and this unprecedented pandemic? When you attend UKGWorks 2020 virtually this week, be sure to stop by our partners virtual booths, to download whitepapers and collateral, participate in live chats with the partners, as well as the raffles and gamification to win prizes!
Workforce Management
Unions and Manufacturing: A Team Effort
When it comes to unions in manufacturing, working together and using the right workforce technology can improve collaboration and compliance.
Workforce Management
3 Workforce Challenges That Haunt Manufacturing Organizations
Discover common workforce challenges encountered by manufacturing organizations and learn how you can address these issues immediately.
Workforce Management
Organizational Readiness – 5 Keys to Implementation Success
Organizational readiness is critical to the success of the implementation of any new technology. Follow these five interconnected key focus areas to make sure your organization is ready to realize that transformational success.
