The difficult ongoing economic recovery highlights the need for public sector organizations to effectively manage their workforce, which represents their greatest asset and largest controllable expense. To more effectively manage to the "new normal" of working smarter in an era of relatively flat budgets, government and education organizations are increasingly turning to automated workforce management solutions. These solutions can enable organizations to achieve visibility into workforce management trends, practices, and policies that in turn can reduce costs related to staffing, compliance, and payroll.