One of the nation’s top contractors, Crossland Construction Company, Inc., with its partner company Crossland Heavy Contractors, operates nine offices in six states — Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, and Colorado — and has the capability to perform work in 41 states. With construction crews at 80 or more job sites at one time, the company found that using manual methods for employee timekeeping was tedious, time-consuming, and error prone. Site superintendents emailed or faxed a spreadsheet of their employees’ time to company headquarters weekly. It took up to five payroll staff members the better part of the week to input time for 1,000 employees. If workers were added to a job or worked on multiple projects, superintendents sometimes forget to report their hours, resulting in payroll inaccuracies. If workers left a site early, superintendents often rounded their time to the full hour, which led to payroll inflation.
EMPLOYEES: 1000INDUSTRY: Commercial constructionPRODUCTS: Workforce Timekeeper™,Kronos 4500 Touch ID™ terminals,Kronos InTouch® biometric terminals
“Our company owner estimates we saved $850,000 in the first year with our Kronos solution,”
– Colin FisherIT ManagerCrossland Construction Company, Inc.
Committed to continuous improvement, Crossland Construction set out to find an automated time and attendance solution that would help the company increase timekeeping accuracy and streamline payroll processing for better labor cost control and higher productivity. After evaluating construction-specific solutions and finding them too basic, the company selected an automated Kronos® workforce management solution that integrates seamlessly with its existing payroll system.
With the Kronos system, unrecorded time and rounding of work hours have become a thing of the past. At every job site, employees punch in and out using Kronos InTouch® biometric terminals, which enable them to indicate the specific jobs they worked on by simply clicking on a drop-down menu. Workforce Timekeeper™ automatically applies work and pay rules to the collected time data and sends it to the payroll system — with no manual input required — resulting in increased payroll accuracy and reduced compliance risk. In addition, because employees can easily access their timecards and accrual balances online or at the clock, they no longer call HR or payroll staff for this information, which boosts productivity even further.
Automated timekeeping has delivered significant evident savings by streamlining processes and minimizing pay inaccuracies. The payoff is especially evident when it comes to prevailing wage projects, which typically required twice as much data input time. “Our company owner estimates we saved $850,000 in the first year with our Kronos solution,” notes Colin Fisher, Crossland’s IT manager.
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