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Kaba Workforce Solutions - Workforce Management

Absence / Late Arrivals Reporting

 
Kaba is a leader in workforce optimization and has incorporated absence / late arrivals reporting into AutoTime. Optimizing absence / late arrivals reporting reduces labor cost and improves productivity. Overtime is reduced significantly. Production line slow downs and stoppages are minimized. Instead of reacting to missing employees, your organization will have a proactive stance for handling absences and late arrivals and stay ahead of the situation.
 

Why Absence Reporting?

Without an effective system in place, your supervisors discover absent employees once the shift starts or shortly thereafter. This causes them to scramble to find a substitute who is available and has the skill needed for the job. In many cases this causes overtime.
The ability to find substitutes is most difficult for employers who have a highly skilled workforce. Even when a skilled substitute can be found, they may not be available for work.
 
Absence / Late Arrivals Call-in
Optimizing your absence handling is a two step process. The first step is a systematic approach to enable your employees to contact your organization when they are going to be absent or late.

Kaba Telephone IVR data collection enables employees to call anytime day or night to report their absence or late arrival. They can call the system using any phone or mobile phone. They are requested to enter their ID and a reason code such as illness, bereavement, late arrival, etc. Their absence is documented, a confirmation code issued to the employee, and the absence data immediately sent to their supervisor.

Absence / Late Arrival Reason Codes
  • Bereavement
  • Family or Personal
  • Illness
  • Jury Duty
  • Late Arrival

Reason codes include details. For example, for late arrival, the employee is requested to enter their ETA (estimated time of arrival) and select from a list of contributing factors such as car trouble, short term illness, etc. Each reason code can present an accompanying advisory message to the employee, such as requesting they meet with their supervisor upon return to work.

Absentee call-in via Kaba Telephony IVR is handled in a fair, consistent, and documented manner. Every call is handled the same. There is no subjective nature or bias as is the case when these calls handled by security, HR, scheduling, or supervisory staff. With this solution you can better demonstrate your organization meeting labor management requirements in the area of absence handling.
 

Supervisor Alert
Employees who have called in absent or reporting late are identified by their supervisor on the AutoTime Current Situation display screen. The time of their call and reason code are noted on the absence record.

Supervisors can handle the task of finding substitutes either on a periodic basis or as each absence occurs. Absence and late arrivals are discovered as soon as possible by the supervisor. They can therefore find substitutes with the closest skills mix to the absent employees who are available to work the shift. Factors such as overtime and equal work opportunity are more intelligently handled.

In most cases, absence / late arrivals reporting will pay for itself in well under a year. The return on investment is comprised of factors including:
  • Reduced overtime
  • Improved productivity
  • Reduced administration
     
Available On premises or SaaS Hosted
  • On Premises
    The telecommunications server is located at your organizations data center. If your workforce will call from within your campus or network of buildings there is no cost to transport calls. Calls flow across your internal data / telecommunications network.
     
  • SaaS Hosting
    Software as a Service makes it easy to add telephone / IVR to your Kaba Workforce Solutions suite of data collection methods. It's ideal if you have a subset of your workforce needing remote time collection or find an on premises telecom equipment solution to be oversize or complex. With SaaS, no equipment is needed at your organization.