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Stay ahead of workforce challenges — before they impact your business

ADP Workforce Now® Workforce Management helps you capture accurate time, optimize schedules and proactively manage attendance in one connected experience. With real-time visibility into your workforce, it can help you control labor costs, improve productivity, simplify compliance and help achieve payroll accuracy from punch to payroll.

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Workforce management built to keep work moving

Whether you have dozens or hundreds of employees, ADP Workforce Now helps you make smarter labor decisions with real-time visibility into your workforce

  • Control labor costs with real-time workforce data

  • Simplify compliance with built-in policies and rules

  • Boost productivity with smarter scheduling

  • Improve payroll accuracy with unified time and payroll

Workforce management your way

Choose the workforce management capabilities that fit your business — from time tracking and scheduling to advanced attendance management and workforce insights

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Timekeeping & Scheduling

Where time and payroll work together

It’s time for a unified approach to timekeeping and scheduling. ADP Workforce Now® offers a fully connected, real-time payroll experience that helps you control costs, stay compliant, and boost employee productivity and engagement.

Improve payroll accuracy, control costs and simplify compliance

Screenshot of the ADP Workforce Now product, displaying the My Timecard screen, with options to view an employee’s schedule, weekly summaries, hours works and a pay summary

A single solution for payroll and timekeeping, data flows from “punch to payroll” automatically giving everyone real-time visibility:

  • Clock in and out, transfer jobs and check schedules from a time clock, a shared device, ADP Workforce Now home page, or mobile device
  • Gather time directly from employees using a range of options that are built to accommodate your diverse workforce
  • Track time to departments, jobs and even locations and hours are instantly calculated and displayed on timecards
  • Define meal break requirements, rest periods, daily hours limits and more to help remain compliant
  • Use the Time Dashboard to see who has or will hit overtime, take action on missed punches and time-off requests and access reporting
  • 2.5-3% reduction in payroll error rate. On average, organixations feel they can expect a 2.5-3% reduction in payroll errors by integrating time and attendance solutions
  • On average, organizations feel they can saves 2-3 hours per employee per week if they require biometric identification when clocking in/out to eliminate buddy punching

Source: ADP® 2023 Workforce Management Benefits Study

Popular time and attendance features and benefits

Simplified compliance and powerful time and attendance insights and analytics for midsized businesses.

Workforce management dashboard paired with an employee attendance insights panel displaying attendance history, behavior metrics, occurrence tracking, and trend analysis, helping managers make informed workforce planning and engagement decisions

Turn attendance management into an advantage

  • Monitor lost coverage, unplanned hours and overtime to help control costs.
  • Implement a points system with discipline and rewards to help improve policy compliance.
  • Provide manager and employee visibility into attendance records and points status.
  • Simplify policy creation, testing, communications and acknowledgements to save HR time.
  • Provide employees with improvement plans to encourage positive attendance behavior
Workforce management dashboard displaying a team schedule calendar with employee shifts, coverage details, schedule adjustments, and workforce planning tools, enabling managers to efficiently coordinate staffing and labor resources.

Simplified scheduling to enhance productivity

  • Ensure proper coverage through daily shifts, and get an at-a-glance view of staffing with color-coded scheduling
  • Build schedules using templates and copying previous schedules and review drafts before publishing
  • Notify and remind people of schedule changes and upcoming shifts
  • Manage compliance with minimum and daily rest periods and maximum consecutive limits flagged in the system
A display of multiple mobile versions of the ADP Workforce Now product, highlighting an individual’s schedule as well as shift coverage requests made by colleagues

Collaborative scheduling built for everyone’s needs

Employees can

  • Swap, drop with approval, and request coverage for shifts
  • Update their schedule with unavailability in advance

Supervisors can

  • Offer open shifts for people to claim
  • Know who is eligible and qualified to work assigned shifts
  • View estimated schedule costs
  • Receive notification to approve schedule changes

ADP named overall leader and exemplary provider for workforce management suites

ISG named ADP an Overall Leader and Exemplary Provider in its 2025 Workforce Management Suites Buyers Guide which evaluates vendors in the categories of Customer Experience and Product Experience. In addition, ADP has been positioned as a Leader in Workforce Management for Healthcare, Workforce Management for Manufacturing and Workforce Management for Retail Guides, and achieved #1 ranking in the Customer Experience and TCO/ROI categories across all guides.

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