Deputy launches first-ever touchless time clock to improve hygiene practices globally with facial recognition and voice commands.
Leading workforce management software company Deputy debuts its Workforce Management Toolkit, a tool suite comprised of an initial four products built to support today’s workforce and management with communication, efficiency and health and safety measures in these uncertain times. The products include: Touchless Clock-In (a market-first), Video for Newsfeed (video communication to staff), Labour Optimisation (real-time wage cost tracking) and Pay by Area (pay rates based on skills, capabilities and roles).
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As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 ) rapidly spreads across the United States and worldwide, demand for workers in several critical industries, most notably healthcare, call centers, large-scale retail and shipping and delivery, have surged exponentially to meet consumer needs. Alongside this shift, many food, beverage and apparel companies – including many Deputy customers – have also pivoted from their product focus to provide critical items like hand sanitizer, masks and scrubs to healthcare providers on the front line.
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“We are facing unprecedented times as a human race,” said Ashik Ahmed, Co-founder and CEO of Deputy. “In the face of such difficult circumstances, we at Deputy recognize now more than ever the need for smart and agile products to help the global business community, industry-wide, navigate the crisis effectively, communicate with their teams and emerge from this plight stronger than ever.”
“We are proud to introduce this new suite of products to support our customer base and, in particular, shift workers, in critical, timely areas of hygiene (touchless clock in), staff communication (video-based workplace feed), survivability (real-time wage cost tracker) and workforce flexibility (pay by area of work),” said Deepesh Banerji, Head of Product. “We expect these new capabilities to enable shift-based workforces to run more effective operations during difficult times — with workforces under immense pressure to keep our cities functioning, communities moving and economy running in these dire times.”
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