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While Galaxy’s powerful Time & Attendance solutions are appropriate for virtually all industries, we additionally provide optimized and flexible time & attendance configurations with a vertical market focus. We understand that although each business is one-of-a-kind, there are often same-industry similarities that require special workflows, labor analysis tools, integrations, reporting requirements and calculation practices.
With over two decades of engineering experience and cutting-edge industry knowledge of timekeeping "best practices", Galaxy helps thousands of organizations optimize their Time & Attendance, Human Resources, and Payroll solutions.
Even if you don't see your industry listed here, please contact Galaxy so that one of our experienced Labor Management Consultants can help guide you to the right fit for your objectives.
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In an industry where the primary focus is on providing excellent patient/resident care, special attention is a necessity when it comes to intelligent staffing. After all, providing the quality care patients/residents need is dependant solely on your workforce. TimeStar™ Optimized for Assisted Living Edition is designed to streamline your processes by keeping your staff’s focus centered on patient care with features including: multiple location data collection, automated time processing, improved overall staff scheduling, cost-center tracking and reporting, and automated overtime control. This leads to a reduction in payroll processing time and errors, as well as improved workforce productivity.
When your business is completing projects efficiently, on-time and on-budget with a decentralized workforce at the job-site, automating your attendance tracking is essential and gives you an advantage in a highly-competitive business. TimeStar™ Optimized for Construction/Labor Edition is designed specifically for employees’ whose "offices" are without walls - construction workers, landscapers, road crews, & corporate farm workers amongst many others. It empowers both employees and supervisors in the field. Employees can “punch” in and out while supervisors can view employee’s time & attendance information and approve hours worked - all while onsite.
In recent years the financial services industry has evolved immensely - gone are the days of 9 to 5 in its place are extended hours, tight government reporting requirements and additional days of operation. Likewise, instead of a single location, organizations have expanded rapidly opening multiple branches in oftentimes multiple states, with all locations being centrally managed. TimeStar™ Optimized for Financial Services Edition is geared to specifically handle "white-collar" labor tracking and staffing management more efficiently, enabling your branch to focus on member services. Features including the status monitor which allows you to see which branch location an employee is currently working, simple transfers between locations, advanced scheduling to ensure coverage in various locations and multiple PC-based attendance data entry options including web punching, "exceptions only" recording and online spreadsheet-style timesheets.
Behind the glamour and glitz in the gaming industry is a fast-paced, cutting-edge, and even sometimes cut-throat ultra-competitive business. Keeping one-step ahead of your competition while remaining in compliance with complex regulations is a true challenge, especially when combined with the demands of controlling your labor costs. TimeStar™ Optimized for Gaming Edition has the tools you need to automate your workforce management practices. Approvals, exceptions and requests are all carried out with the click of a button, time and pay policies are automatically calculated and comprehensive reporting options gives you real-time insight into your workforce attendance and productivity trends.
Balancing budgets, controlling spending and reducing costs are at the forefront of practically every government agency from municipal to state to federal. Those same factors have a direct impact on local fire and police departments, and public works employees amongst many others. TimeStar™ Optimized for Government/Public Sector Edition is designed to help you control costs and reduce spending by automating your workforce’s labor data, even with atypical overtime rules and work-day/week-work scheduling cycles. Prevent overtime before it occurs receiving automated alerts allowing you to make necessary scheduling changes, track requests for time-off, maintain updated schedules, provide audit trails, eliminate paper timecards & the costs associated and have in-depth reporting capabilities available all with the touch of a button.
Does your agency have a difficult time accurately managing and tracking activities for your employees/volunteers? Does this leave you in jeopardy of losing grant dollars because of insufficient or inaccurate reporting? TimeStar™ Optimized GFP Edition offers electronic Time & Attendance, activity tracking & reporting, electronic time-off requests, scheduling and more! The days of analyzing piles of paperwork in order to submit your required agency details will be only a distant memory. In addition, TimeStar™ Optimized for GFP Edition can be seamlessly integrated with Sage Abra HRMS and Sage MIP. Abra HRMS offers human resources, payroll, training & education tracking as well as web-based employee self-service and recruiting, while Sage MIP manages non-profit accounting. Not using Sage MIP? Both TimeStar™ and Abra can also be seamlessly interfaced to your existing accounting software and/or payroll software or provider.
Building customer loyalty and having high levels of return customers is the key to success in the hospitality business. What makes each visitor’s experience unique to your property is your workforce! Having the best, most efficient, friendly and professional staff sets you apart from your competitors but also presents you with the highest cost of running your business- labor. TimeStar™ Optimized for Hospitality/Lodging helps you manage your workforce effectively and easily while at the same time keeping your employees productivity higher and overall satisfaction greater. Gone are the days of an employee having to take the time away from their work to find their supervisor to make a time-off request, eliminated are calls to HR with requests. Instead your workforce is able to access their information, make requests, view schedules, and more all while they "punch in" and "out" for the day. Likewise, supervisors and managers can authorize approvals, submit "timecards", make schedule changes and run reports on staffing in less time and more accurately, saving you money in errors and allowing your staff to focus on what is really important- your guests.
Considered the epitome environment for a "punching the clock" workforce, manufacturing businesses and union shops often require far more dynamic capabilities than many timekeeping systems can provide. TimeStar™ Optimized for Manufacturing Edition is designed to support intricate scheduling: swing shifts, 24-hour staffing, etc.; automated vacation/PTO requests; complex pay policies and premium rules, attendance plans, points systems and real-time shop-floor labor distributions, all while supporting multiple timeclock options.
Focusing on customer service while managing a workforce in a complex environment can present significant challenges. Store managers are responsible for maintaining variable schedules, complying with complex labor laws, higher rates of employee turnover and expensive costs of labor amongst other challenges while maintaining employee and customer satisfaction. TimeStar™ Optimized for Retail Edition has the tools necessary to manage your workforce efficiently and effectively without spending all your time in "the back office" and can instead be "on the floor". You can approve vacation time, scheduling requests and make modifications for staffing all with the click of a mouse. You'll no longer have to spend hours adding timecards and making sure employees are taking all their required breaks. Let TimeStar™ Optimized for Retail Edition do the work for you.
If you would like more information on Galaxy’s optimized solutions please contact a Labor Management Consultant at 800.814.9096.
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