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With the economy at nearly full employment, it’s increasingly difficult to find workers—especially for small businesses. Some 61% of employers in the NFIB’s most recent monthly jobs report are either hiring or trying to hire; of those, 87% say there are few or no qualified workers available.

Evolving trends in the workforce are encouraging companies to reexamine their legacy ecosystems, and many are discovering that they lack the capacity most businesses today require to manage the modernization and digitalization of their workforce. As a result, these organizations require ongoing disruptive and expensive fixes in an attempt to bridge the gaps left behind from these outdated systems.

The inclusion of artificial intelligence in workforce modernization creates a reality where organizations are tracking their workforce’s actions with greater accuracy and detail. How valuable are these efforts? How do improvements in tracking impact the employee? Today we are joined by Lakshmi Raj, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Replicon, a software company providing cloud time tracking software to answer these and related questions.

We may still be a ways from Halloween, but some spookier lore lingers all year round—like that of the mysterious “ghost employee.” And what exactly is a ghost employee?

No one likes to get spooked … especially an employer that is being haunted by "ghost" employees, who can bleed an organization of thousands-even million-of dollars.

A time and attendance system can tell you more about your workforce than who showed up for work each day.