Kronos employee contact-tracing capability

Kronos has introduced an automated reporting capability for employee contact tracing that will be available for Workforce Dimensions, Kronos Workforce Central, Kronos Workforce Ready and Kronos iSeries Central customers globally, at no additional charge.

The automated reporting capability has been introduced to help streamline the employee contact-tracing process for many essential business operations across the world. Leveraging data science to analyse labour records and time and attendance data collected by a Kronos solution, the automated reporting capability can generate a simple report that can be used to identify and communicate to employees who may have come in contact with a co-worker who has tested positive or is presumed positive for COVID-19.

An employer can generate a contact-tracing report using only the afflicted employee’s ID number to identify potential contacts, ie, employees clocked in at the same time and same location as someone testing positive or presumed positive for COVID-19, based on overlapping shifts.

This information can empower organisations to partner with health officials to rapidly notify potentially exposed employees and provide appropriate care, treatment and direction for workers, such as self-quarantining and initiating heightened cleaning efforts. This in turn helps reduce the risk of further virus transmission. The employee contact-tracing capability is available free of charge with self-service instructions provided for an organisation’s Kronos administrator in the Kronos Customer Community.

The COVID-19 Resource Centre on the Kronos Customer Community provides additional tools and resources to help organisations navigate the pandemic. This includes specific information on how to clean timekeeping devices, access to employee badges, and knowledge base articles to configure systems to meet changing regulatory requirements.