What’s more, automation of the biweekly payroll process using Kronos eliminated the need for administrators to manually collect and rekey data from 1,600 timesheets every pay period.
Getting all campus employees to participate in an automated payroll system is necessary, but not always easy, according to the Kronos report. Some faculty initially resisted the payroll change.
“These employees, most of whom were salaried workers in academic roles, were uninterested in adopting Kronos because it required them to change some of their daily tasks,” the report said.
USD officials eventually let these employees enter their timesheets into the automated system themselves, rather than use a time clock that tracked exactly how long a faculty member worked.
Kronos’ payroll automation solutions reportedly are used by more than 600 colleges, universities, and K-12 school districts, as well as thousands of businesses around the world. They consist of software tools that allow administrators to track, plan, and manage their employees’ time, and consistently apply various rules—as well as a variety of technologies for collecting accurate data on the number of hours employees work, such as badges, biometric terminals, and telephone and handheld devices.
The information from these technologies is fed into the Kronos software automatically, so administrators don’t have to key it in by hand.
The company recently released a new version of its workforce-management software that can manage remote employees as easily as those who work on campus.
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