Innovators, Practitioners, and Thought Leaders Set to Gather at KronosWorks™
Industry's largest conference on managing the workforce less than one week away
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Oct. 14, 2008 — With less than one week until the big event, innovators, practitioners, and visionaries in managing the workforce are eagerly looking forward to KronosWorks™, the industry's largest conference dedicated to exchanging ideas on how to effectively manage the workforce. At this year's conference, sponsored by Kronos® Incorporated and taking place Oct. 19-22 in Orlando, attendees will have the opportunity to take part in more than 150 sessions and workshops on a wide variety of topics relating to workforce management.
"This KronosWorks is shaping up to be one of our strongest shows ever," said Aron Ain, Kronos' chief executive officer. "Each year, KronosWorks provides an opportunity for our customers, prospective customers, partners, industry influencers, and other thought leaders to come together, share their enthusiasm about Kronos products and services, and learn from each other. It is an intense couple of days and an event truly not to be missed."
Ain will speak during the KronosWorks opening session along with Peter George, Kronos chief technology officer. In addition to Kronos executives, other featured workforce visionaries on the speaker circuit at KronosWorks include:
- Malcolm Gladwell, Best Selling Author of Blink and The Tipping Point, and Writer for The New Yorker — Gladwell's presentation, titled "The Intuitive Manager", will explore the notion that the best and most effective managers are often said to be intuitive, in the sense that they have the confidence to act on instinct. Gladwell will provide the audience with insight on how they can improve their skill at interpreting intuition to become better decision makers — at home, in the office, and in everyday life.
- The Honorable Bill Bradley, Olympic Gold Medal Winner, Professional Basketball Player, Author, and Former U.S. Senator — Bradley's presentation, titled "Helping Your Workforce Meet the New Competition", will examine how organizations can recruit, retain, and build talented teams and give them authority to lead the way to better products and services. He will delve into how to build relational capital and how organizations can empower front-line people without unleashing turf wars, duplication of effort, and corporate chaos.
Hot topics sessions
- Developing a Workforce Management Strategy for Your Organization — Brian Koniuk, managing director, The Hackett Group — Many organizations are looking at ways to reduce costs and improve operational performance. This presentation will offer insights into how organizations have successfully developed comprehensive workforce management visions beyond just automating time and attendance.
- Microsoft People-Ready Business: Attracting, Developing, and Keeping Talent at the New Speed of Business — Scott Pitasky, corporate vice president, Talent and Organizational Capability, Microsoft — With more than 80,000 full-time employees, Microsoft is a massive employer dealing with the complexity of recruiting, developing, and retaining employees, as well as managing them in an environment that changes and evolves at an incredibly fast pace. This session will show not only some of Microsoft's best practices but also how Microsoft applies its own "People-Ready Business" strategy to recruiting and talent management.
- The Hidden Costs of Absenteeism — George Faulkner, principal, Mercer — Absenteeism can have a significant impact on an organization's bottom line, yet most organizations do not have a clear understanding of the costs associated with employee absence. The financial investment can include: compensating absent employees, filling the gaps with overtime or temporary labor, increased managers' time, and lost productivity. This session will help attendees understand how much absence really costs by reviewing the results of a recent survey conducted by Mercer.
- Are You Paying Your Employees Correctly? Understanding the Regular Rate of Pay — Larry White, CPP, director of payroll training, American Payroll Association — The Department of Labor assessed hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and back pay against employers in 2007. If organizations fail to calculate employees' regular rates of pay correctly or pay overtime premiums incorrectly, they are in danger of incurring costly penalties. In this session attendees will learn how to correctly calculate the regular rate of pay, which payments are excluded, and each employee's overtime premium.
- ROI: How to Make the Business Case for Labor Management — David O'Connell, senior research analyst, Nucleus Research — This session will help attendees estimate the benefits, ROI, and payback on their existing or potential labor management deployment and make the business case for either adopting labor management or expanding the scope of an existing deployment.
Sponsors, exhibitors, and peer-to-peer sessions
This year's KronosWorks sponsors and exhibitors include companies such as ACS, AXSIUM, BearingPoint, The Hackett Group, Microsoft, PrimeCare Technologies, and Workforce Insight.
Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from peers and industry thought leaders and network with organizations such as Austin Health, Balfour Beatty Rail Limited, Cambridge Healthcare Management, Ceradyne, Chicago Public Schools, City and County of Denver, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland State University, CVS, DeKalb County Government in Georgia, Dell, Discount Tire, Dresser-Rand, Forest City Enterprises, Hannaford Bros., Huntington Hospital, ICT Group, Main Steel Polishing Company, Mercy Hospital in Miami, MGM Mirage, Neiman Marcus, Range Regional Health Services, ResCare, Seminole Gaming, Shooting Star Casino, Somerfield UK, St. Dominic's Hospital, Tire Kingdom, Uniontown Hospital, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
About Kronos Incorporated
Kronos Incorporated empowers organizations around the world to effectively manage their workforce. At Kronos, we are experts who are solely focused on delivering software and services that enable organizations to reduce costs, increase productivity, improve employee satisfaction, and ultimately enhance the level of service they provide. Kronos serves customers in more than 60 countries through its network of offices, subsidiaries, and distributors. Widely recognized as a market and thought leader in managing the workforce, Kronos has unrivaled reach with more than 30 million people using a Kronos solution every day. Learn more about Kronos at www.kronos.com.
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