Against a backdrop of growing student demand for more affordable hybrid and remote learning, decreasing undergraduate enrollment, and educator burnout, institutions charting a path forward are tapping into the power of their people while also improving operational performance, labor optimization, and cost management using digital workforce management solutions.
Create Moments That Matter,
Everywhere Work Happens
Modern WorkForce Management for
Higher Education Leaders
Cost Management
and Budget Pressures
Improve your team’s ability to sense and adapt to change.
• Schedule shifts amongst all types of campus workers to their specific needs including
faculty, adjunct, full-time, part-time, and student workers
• Provide all workers access to effective communication and collaboration tools no
matter where their work happens
• Maintain compliance in relation to collective bargaining agreements and adapt to
ever-changing and complex legislation, policies, and labor restrictions
Be Ready for Change
Provide clear and consistent communication that engages workers and keeps operations running smoothly.
• Encourage well-being and remote working initiatives with anywhere access to time
capture, scheduling, and leave management tools
• Provide workers access to consumer-grade communication and collaboration tools no
matter where the work happens
• Offer scheduling flexibility for campus workers (who often work more than one campus
job) and for student workers (who juggle their time between work and classes).
Win and Keep Top Talent
Improve your financial position, optimize labor, and reduce operating costs—which allows for savings to be passed on to current and applying students, improving affordability and enrollment rates.
• Reduce payroll costs (time leakage, time theft, and admin headcount) using automated
rules and calculations
• Record hours accurately against work orders and departments, and grant certification
of effort
• Control predictable variable costs such as labor, overtime, and PTO accruals over
longer periods of time
Manage Costs and Budget Pressures
Our customers’ success is our top priority and this report from SoftwareReviews has special meaning to us because the users of our software gave their candid feedback, earning WorkForce Software the top position above all other WFM solutions.
Mike Morini
CEO of WorkForce Software
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Higher Education Institutions Realize Significant Benefits with WorkForce Software
There are a range of benefits and savings our higher education customers realize with WorkForce Software solutions. These estimates are based on the aggregated results of value studies with our higher education customers across a range of deployments and organizational maturities.
Customer Sample Benefit Ranges
Time & Attendance
$1M — $1.9M
Scheduling & Forecasting
$775K — $1.1M
Task Management
$680K — $906K
Absence & Leave Management
$89K — $107K
Employee Experience
$3M — $4.1M
Total Benefits
Up to $8M
5K Employees
50K Employees
100K Employees
Time & Attendance
$10M — $18.8M
Customer Sample Benefit Ranges
5K Employees
50K Employees
100K Employees
Up to $80.4M
Scheduling & Forecasting
$7.8M — $11M
Task Management
$6.8M — $9.1M
Absence & Leave Management
$893K — $1.1M
Employee Experience
$29.7M — $40.5M
Total Benefits
Time & Attendance
$20.1M — $37.6M
Customer Sample Benefit Ranges
5K Employees
50K Employees
100K Employees
Up to $160.8M
Scheduling & Forecasting
$15.5M — $22M
Task Management
$13.6M — $18.1M
Absence & Leave Management
$1.8M — $2.1M
Employee Experience
$59.5M — $81M
Total Benefits
WorkForce Software is the first global provider of workforce management solutions with integrated employee communications. The WorkForce Suite delivers the tools necessary to improve employee experience, operational performance, and your financial position—no matter how unique your pay rules, labor regulations and allocation, schedules, and employee engagement needs.
Our solutions are built for labor optimization, which can reduce your operating costs. This value can then be used to make tuition rates more affordable, passing the value along to current and applying students.
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Time and Attendance
Scheduling
Task Management
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How Are You Reimagining Your Operations When Faced with These Higher Education Trends?
Enterprise-grade and future-ready, WorkForce Software is helping some of the world’s most innovative higher education institutions optimize their workforce, protect against compliance risks, and increase employee engagement to unlock new potential for resiliency, operational performance, and cost management.
See How These Higher Education Institutions
Use WorkForce Software to Transform the
Way People Work
Oregon State University Uses Workforce for Reliable Time and Leave Management to Better Manage Diverse Employee Groups
“Getting store teams to really understand the importance of visual merchandising has been a journey, and WorkForce Experience has helped us build this community of people who are passionate about merchandising.”
— Lissa Perrone, Director of Business Affairs
— Lissa Perrone, Director of Business Affairs
“We run thin administratively on purpose, so any time we can adjust our efforts in ways that return more to the university, it just makes sense.”
Oregon State University Uses Workforce for
Reliable Time and Leave Management to
Better Manage Diverse Employee Groups
— Kristin Richmond, HRIS Manager
“Besides knowing that our rules are consistently applied, we are collecting much more accurate and complete data.”
Going Digital with WorkForce Time and Attendance Improves Slow, Costly Manual Processes
Review the Higher Education Value Accelerator for More Details About These WorkForce Software Business Case Value Drivers
Build Your Higher Education Workforce Management Business Case
We understand that your organization is unique. No two higher education institutions share the same workforce management process maturity or level of automation. WorkForce Software’s Customer Value experts are dedicated to partnering with you to make a compelling case for change that appeals to the stakeholders of your organization.
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Universal Compliance
Undergraduate enrollment
has fallen by over 5% (1 million students) from 2019 to 2021
due to high tuition rates and student debt concerns.
(NSCRC)
Keeping, Attracting,
and Winning Top Talent
Educators’ roles have become more challenging with remote learning, impacting retention. Turnover rates have reached 15% for non-exempt part-time staff.
(CUPA-HR)
Increasing Compliance
and Pay Complexities
Institutions must factor in remote workers for compliance and payroll and navigate the expanded role of collective bargaining agreements
for employee populations.
(CUPA-HR)
Increasing Compliance
and Pay Complexities
Institutions must factor in remote workers for compliance and payroll and navigate the expanded role of collective bargaining agreements for employee populations.
(CUPA-HR)
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“I’ve been working in payroll for 30 years and am very impressed with WorkForce Software. We have saved so much time, automated many processes—things we could never have achieved otherwise. We are more efficient and accurate across the business.”
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We believe that true success is measured by the experience and value we deliver to our employees, partners, and customers and by how we continue to work together to lead the future of the modern workforce. We are humbled and proud to be recognized as the #1 workforce management vendor year after year—not only from a product perspective but also as a company that our customers trust and want to do business with.
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U.S. News & World Report’s Best Solution Provider for Large Enterprises: WorkForce Software was named the best enterprise workforce management solution provider for the exceptional value it delivers to its global enterprise customers, including some of the world’s largest brands.
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U.S. News & World Report’s Best Solution Provider for Large Enterprises: WorkForce Software was named the best enterprise workforce management solution provider for the exceptional value it delivers to its global enterprise customers, including some of the world’s largest brands.
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Top Leadership Position in the 2024 WFM Value Matrix: For the tenth year running, Nucleus Research named WorkForce Software as the leading workforce management vendor for the value, functionality, and usability of our solutions.
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