Higher Education Solutions

Cope with budget cuts by controlling labour costs

Higher education institutions continue to face under-funding and stiff competition. Student tuition fees are reaching unaffordable highs and many colleges and universities are being forced to cut teaching staff and programs in order to meet budget requirements. There's no end in sight, which means these institutions must find more creative and reliable ways to control costs.

The focus should be on increasing efficiency within the workforce and doing more with less. In this way education institutions can behave more like a business. But that's a serious challenge when many of them still rely on outdated systems for managing employees.

To address this challenge, institutions need a partner who understands the other difficulties behind managing a college or university workforce, including:

Deploying staff effectively while remaining in budget
Improving student tuition
Maintaining work/life balance for staff
Managing a diverse and widespread workforce

Solving real-world problems in higher education

Kronos has provided many education institutions, including University of York and Leeds College of Art & Design, with a comprehensive workforce management solution for the entire campus. We help you to effectively manage your professional, union, auxiliary, and student workforces, all at the same time. We help you control labour costs and achieve healthy improvements in employee productivity and efficiency, both of which are key to maintaining competitive tuition.

With Kronos for Higher Education you can:

Automate employee time and labour processes that weigh on productivity and operational efficiency
Manage employee time and labour to budgets using a reliable, centralised view into your workforce
Manage annualised hours and/or flexitime schemes
Make it easier to manage the many diverse groups that make up your workforce, and do so consistently
Empower employees with self-service capabilities that reduce operational costs and the calls to HR while improving employee satisfaction
Take control of employee absences and manage holidays, lieu and sickness more efficiently, typically saving more than 30 percent of unscheduled absence¹
Increase payroll accuracy by automating time and attendance to payroll processes
Independent studies suggests average savings of 3.5 percent of annual payroll cost per year²

With three decades of experience, no one understands the workforce better than Kronos. Ours is a complete system that will fit your environment and can earn you a faster return on your investment than most competitive offerings.

Learn more about Kronos' Workforce Central® suite and our solutions for time and labour, absence management, and advanced scheduling.

¹	"Absence Management: A Survey of Policy and Practice," CIPD Annual Survey Report, 2005.
²	"ROI Evaluation Report: Workforce Timekeeper," Nucleus Research, 2002 (sponsored by Kronos).