Workforce Management

Align business strategy, reduce compliance risk, and deploy the workforce with greater control through a fully integrated HR solution that links time, labor, scheduling, and leave management with payroll, financial, and personnel data.

HCM WFM video thumbnail

Explore Workforce Management

Absence planning

Allow workers to bid on time off and enable managers to award time off fairly while ensuring adequate coverage.

Global best practices

Automate absence accrual and entitlement policies globally while meeting local requirements, such as the Family and Medical Leave Act in the US.

Wellness and balance

Implement wellness policies such as compensatory time-off plans and the ability to cash out absence balances.

Burnout controls

Analyze absence trends and identify correlations to high turnover and high overtime hours.


Total workforce time tracking

Reduce pay errors with automated overtime and other policies for salaried, hourly, project-based, and contingent workers.

Fast and simple time entry

Deliver a mobile-responsive user experience that allows employees to capture and track time from any device, anytime.

A priority-aligned workforce

Track labor against what matters to your organization, such as projects, grants, cost centers, and more.

Security and fraud controls

Leverage role-based or location-based security controls and limit access to prevent time, absence, and payroll fraud.


Intelligent shift scheduling

Make informed decisions using business data and AI insights to fill shifts based on qualifications, preferences, and compliance requirements.

More manager face time

Fill shifts or post open shifts with incentives using AI, freeing up managers so they can focus on their workers.

Balanced coverage

Ensure coverage for the required headcount or scheduled hours without exceeding budgeted or full-time equivalent (FTE) hours where required.


Optimized operational needs

Optimally automate shift creation and the assignment of available people with the right skills to meet expected demand.

Compliance with regulations

Automate shift assignments at scale while adhering to complex labor policies, the budget, and FTE hours.

Balanced business priorities

Optimize schedules to deliver the best customer and employee experiences.


Prioritized preferences

Let workers set their available shifts and days in the same mobile app they use to plan absences and complete scheduling tasks.

Easy employee shift changes

Provide employees with tools to reach out directly to a qualified coworker and ask them to cover or swap a shift.

Democratized shift access

Make extra shifts available to claim in the scheduling app and notify employees of any incentives that may be offered.

Gifted accrued paid leave

Enable employees to gift paid leave to coworkers through the same tool they use to check accrued balances and request time off.


Set shift expectations

Provide frontline workers with prioritized tasks to complete during their shift.

Engagement in the flow of work

Use Guided Journeys to provide workers with guidance on how and when to complete their tasks.

Monitored productivity

Give managers insights into task completion and the ability to reassign or reorder priorities.


Proactive management

Improve incident management by capturing more incidents sooner and enabling quick responses and follow-up actions.

A culture built on safety

Promote a culture of workplace safety and compliance through improved inspection management.

Analytics-driven monitoring

Use safety data to understand trends, and help reduce accidents and workplace hazards through root cause analysis.


Oracle Workforce Management third-party time collection device partners

  • Accu-Time Systems

    Accu-Time Systems, an AMANO Company, provides time and attendance terminals and fully integrated software to support ERP and HCM solutions for leaders in manufacturing, retail, hospitality, healthcare, and other industries.

  • dormakaba Workforce Solutions

    The b-comm solution from dormakaba Workforce Solutions allows customers to efficiently record and accurately process time and labor hours for payroll and reporting purposes. The dormakaba b-comm solution is integrated with both PeopleSoft and Oracle HCM Time and Labor.

  • Grosvenor Technology

    GT Time works seamlessly with Oracle Time and Labor, empowering organizations with accurate time collection, reduced administrative burdens, and peace of mind through effortless compliance with data and privacy regulations.

  • TimeClock Plus

    TCP Software (formerly known as TimeClock Plus) meets the needs of customers by providing innovative software and hardware designed to help administrators monitor and schedule employees, manage labor costs, and reduce compliance risk.

Oracle Cloud HCM helps you give deskless workers the experience they deserve.

Key benefits of Workforce Management

Workforce Management customer successes

Discover how our customers in a wide variety of industries use Oracle Workforce Management in their business.

Oracle Cloud Helps TrueBlue Unify Finance and HR

True Blue streamlines its back-end operations, improves productivity, and consolidates 20 disparate systems with one unified HCM solution.

Product Tour—Oracle Workforce Management

Oracle Workforce Management

Manage your workforce with greater control and reduced risk using a complete HR solution that links time, labor, leave management, and health and safety data with payroll, financial, and personnel data.

Optimize your resources using AI

Reduce labor costs and remain compliant using an AI scheduling assistant that has the most complete picture of your customers’ needs and your frontline workers’ skills and preferences.

Give workers the flexibility and predictability they’re looking for

Give workers the autonomy to self-schedule, pick up extra hours, release hours, or swap shifts with a qualified coworker. Let workers specify their preferred times to work and locations to inform labor scheduling.

Track labor for your entire workforce

Track labor accurately for your entire workforce, including salaried, hourly, union, project-based, and contingent workers, all in one global system. Gain insight into total global labor costs and productivity. Easily allocate employees’ time to projects and ensure accuracy through unification with Oracle’s project costing and grant management solutions.

Provide a smarter web clock

Provide an intelligent web clock that enables easy online or offline time capture, configurable punch patterns, intraday transfers, authentication of time worked, and automated attestation capabilities.

Prevent compliance violations

Configure smart compliance alerts when certain actions have occurred or have not been taken, and notify workers, managers, or administrators to take action to help prevent costly compliance violations.

Handle complex overtime and premium calculations

Avoid data latency and integrity concerns with a native cloud that connects HR employment data such as employment schedules, pay rates, job eligibility, seniority, and union rules to determine proper pay and compliance calculations.

Track absences for your entire workforce

Track absences for your entire workforce globally and manage the unique needs of specific countries and absence types—whether it's adhering to statutory sick pay in the UK or the Family and Medical Leave Act in the US.

Provide a smarter, modern, engaging user experience through Oracle Digital Assistant, and get quick access to view your absence balances.

Analyze and understand the impact of absenteeism

Reduce direct and indirect costs associated with absenteeism by analyzing trends around unplanned absences and their impact on productivity.

Improve worker safety with the Internet of Things

Connect Oracle Time and Labor to improve operational efficiency by tracking and managing workers in real time through location tracking, movement monitoring, and geo-fencing. Improve worker health and safety by broadcasting notifications to workers, and leverage analytics and tracked patterns to prevent future incidents.

Prioritize employee safety and stability

Create a safe, stable work environment with an easy way to track and record health and safety incidents—helping you minimize exposure and react quickly. Employees can add additional context to an incident by taking pictures or filling out notes.

Easily digest and understand the issues at hand, initiate investigations with guidance provided by questionnaires, and follow up with actions and alerts to engage the broader organization.

Analyze workplace health and safety trends

Identify health and safety trends in the workplace, and get the analysis and reporting you need for compliance and internal metrics with embedded analytics.

Related Workforce Management solutions

Talent management

Take control of every stage of the talent lifecycle

Human resources

Effectively manage a global workforce

Payroll

Manage comprehensive payroll needs for a global workforce

Recruiting

Attract talent and drive internal mobility

Workforce Management Resources

Get started with Workforce Management