Employee productivity monitoring software uses automated data collection, analytics as well as logs from applications, calendars, etc. to report on employees’ activities, time spent, work locations and work patterns. It can provide insights into when employees are working and what work is being done. Insights thus generated from employee productivity monitoring can support efforts to improve organizational effectiveness, employee experience, worker well-being and working-time compliance. This software also creates detailed reports on the collected data that helps employees manage their workload for optimum results and managers to measure employee performance.
Gartner defines robotic process automation (RPA) as the software to automate tasks within business and IT processes via software scripts that emulate human interaction with the application UI. RPA enables a manual task to be recorded or programmed into a software script, which users can develop by programming, or by using the RPA platform’s low-code and no-code GUIs. This script can then be deployed and executed into different runtimes. The runtime executable of the deployed script is referred to as a bot, or robot. RPA is used across numerous business functions for tactical task automation. Business and IT users can leverage RPA to: Move data in or out of application systems without human interaction (unattended automation). Scripts are designed to replicate the actions of a human interacting with those systems or documents, which usually do not have available APIs. The goal is to automate and complete a task successfully without human intervention. Typically, unattended automation is triggered by a system and bots executed on a server. Automate tasks with a human in the loop (attended automation). RPA can extract information from systems and related documents, shaping it and preparing it for consumption by a human at the point of need. Typically, attended automation is triggered by a human and bots executed on a local device.
WFM is a solution comprising software, services and (often) hardware that helps organizations manage the operational deployment of their workers. In most cases, WFM is deployed for hourly paid/blue-collar employees. The deployment of WFM for both hourly and salaried workers can be justified primarily in the following cases: The organization wants both salaried and hourly workers to use the same absence management and/or access control system. To capture the overtime of salaried workers and use that data to calculate gross pay. When salaried workers are scheduled to work dynamic shifts, rather than set “office” hours. When salaried workers must allocate and track their time to projects or tasks and a WFM system is already in use.