Lathem Time News
LATHEM TIME LAUNCHES SHIFTPLAN™ EZ EMPLOYEE
SCHEDULING SOFTWARE
Integration with Lathem's PayClock EZ
and QuickBooks Provides Small Businesses a Complete Labor Management
Solution
ATLANTA, Ga. - May 19, 2003 -- Lathem Time Corporation,
one of the world's leading designers and manufacturers of time
and labor management products for small business, today announced
the launch of ShiftPlan™ EZ, an employee scheduling tool that
allows companies to plan and print employees' schedules with
just a few mouse clicks.
ShiftPlan, which integrates with Lathem's No. 1-selling timekeeping
system for small business, PayClock® EZ, and Intuit's QuickBooks®
Pro and Premier, is an easy-to-use scheduling system, allowing
users to create staff schedules in seconds and avoid scheduling
conflicts. With ShiftPlan, users can schedule staff weeks, months,
or even years in advance, allowing for better planning and avoidance
of staff shortages.
Among its benefits, ShiftPlan lets users produce clean, professional-looking
schedules for up to 25 individual daily shifts and up to 150
employees; schedule by department or position; improve scheduling
accuracy; create scheduled-to-actual and tardy reports; analyze
employee punch trends to help reduce overtime pay and payroll
costs; eliminate redundant data entry; and save time.
"Staff scheduling is one of the most time-consuming and difficult
tasks managers face today," said Philip Seagraves, director
of business development for Lathem Time. "ShiftPlan will not
only save users time by helping them create their schedules,
it unites employee schedules with actual time worked to better
manage staffing and payroll issues."
ShiftPlan allows users to create professional schedules and
reports to distribute to all employees. Employee names can be
entered manually or automatically imported from PayClock EZ
or QuickBooks Pro/Premier Editions 2003. Once employee names
are in ShiftPlan, the user defines shifts and builds employee
schedules.
"When you combine the individual needs of employees with
the need to have the right skills and coverage in the work environment,
scheduling can be very complex, even for small businesses,"
said Seagraves. "ShiftPlan makes managing employee schedules
simple and efficient by putting a visual tool in the hands of
managers that allows them to actually plan work schedules in
advance and print schedules for groups or individuals."
About Lathem Time
Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., Lathem Time is one of the
world's leading designers and manufacturers of time and attendance
products for small business. The company specializes in mechanical
and automated employee time and attendance tracking systems,
including the No. 1-selling automated system for small business,
PayClock EZ. PayClock's automation reduces payroll preparation
time by up to 80 percent and eliminates inaccuracies associated
with manual calculations, saving up to 3 percent in payroll
costs.
Founded in 1919 by George Lathem and his son Louie Lathem,
Sr., Lathem Time remains a family-owned and operated company
with 150 employees. Over 300,000 companies worldwide use a Lathem
timekeeping product for managing their business. More information
can be found at
www.lathem.com.
Lathem and PayClock are registered trademarks of Lathem Time
Corporation. Intuit, the Intuit logo, Quicken, QuickBooks, QuickBooks
Pro, QuickBooks Premier, TurboTax, ProSeries and Lacerte, among
others, are registered trademarks and/or registered service
marks of Intuit Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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