Take the ‘work’ out of workforce management.
Managing employee schedules, attendance, overtime, and PTO all while staying compliant can be a bear for any business. With Gusto, you can optimize your labor costs, save hours on admin, improve team communication—and it all seamlessly syncs to payroll.
Save money with smarter staffing
Increase visibility, decrease labor costs, and optimize your workforce with easy-to-read reporting and real-time analytics.
Say goodbye to spreadsheets
Easily manage overtime, sick days, PTO, and time and attendance all in one place, saving you hours on admin each month.
Everything you need, all in one place
From integrated scheduling to built-in HR, benefits, and compliance, Gusto’s powerful suite of tools helps you save time while taking care of your team.
“Reporting and documentation make it easy to stay compliant, work with accountants/government agencies, and keep track of labor trends.”
Improved visibility
Keep labor costs in check when you can expect the unexpected.
Making informed, agile staffing decisions means you’re prepared for shifting demand—whether seasonal or out of the blue—putting the right people in the right place at the right time. Robust labor costing reports backed by industry benchmarks provide valuable insights that supercharge your efficiency, nip unplanned overtime in the bud, and deliver more bang for your workforce buck.
Workforce automation
Easy, convenient, accurate—scheduling and compliance done right.
Gusto’s workforce management software means saving hours on admin each month. Forget about manually tracking availability and digging through stacks of time-off requests. With automated scheduling tools, integrated time tracking, and built-in rule and policy enforcement, you can easily set the schedule while knowing your business stays compliant—no matter how many shifts get traded.
Time-saving integrations
Streamline your people process from start to finish.
When Workforce Management is fully integrated with benefits, HR, and payroll, handling your team is a breeze. Track employee absences and time off, manage schedules and attendance policies, and review and approve time sheets that sync to payroll with the push of a button. You and your employees can easily access everything you need—from accrued PTO and paystubs to 1099s and W2s—and you don’t have to worry about multiple logins or redundant data entry.
Frequently Asked Questions
Workforce management means balancing your workforce with your business’s staffing needs in order to optimize your labor costs and operate more efficiently. While “workforce management” has been practiced by businesses long before the internet existed, we now have access to more powerful tools to provide valuable insight and automate the process—saving your business even more money in the long run.
Workforce management software solutions are automated processes that take the guesswork out of scheduling, time and attendance tracking, sick days, paid time off (PTO), and more. While basic solutions may just offer time tracking, more robust solutions can also provide detailed labor forecasting data to help you avoid under- and over-staffing while giving you the power to make agile business decisions based on shifting and seasonal customer demand.
Workforce management software is an essential part of any modern HR department. In a corporate environment, workforce management software should provide insight to HR to help them understand where more people are needed and where there are skills-gaps across the board. It can help inform broader hiring and staffing decisions while helping to manage time-off and compliance paperwork. But for many companies, workforce management will lie with the manager in charge of scheduling and staffing.
While any company can benefit from utilizing workforce management software solutions, the industries most primed to capitalize on those insights are those with a high percentage of shift-based employees on hourly wages where staffing demands can rapidly change. Industries like retail, restaurants, and construction can see massive savings and increases in efficiency when they start digging into the numbers—and the people—driving their labor costs.
Gusto integrates with dozens of HR, time tracking and attendance, and workforce management software solutions including Bamboo, Workforce, 7Shifts, When I Work, Workyard, Upserve, and more. Check out the full list of integrations here.
The Department of Labor is constantly updating their regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) on everything from overtime pay to recordkeeping requirements. Since Gusto stays on top of these changes and keeps you informed, you can save the time and energy racing to keep up, and spend more time focusing on your business.
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