Workforce management
Whether you want to improve time and attendance tracking, automate scheduling or simplify leave case management, ADP has a single solution to help with it all. Discover why ADP has been ranked as the overall leader in Workforce Management by Ventana Research, now part of ISG.
Everything you need, all working together seamlessly
More than just time and attendance — ADP workforce management software integrates everything from scheduling and absence
management to compliance, payroll and analytics. All delivered with the exceptional service you expect from ADP.
Improve operational efficiency with easy, convenient and accurate time tracking
- Get easy access to see and manage your team’s hours
- Reduce errors and eliminate manual entries with one integrated system
- Review, edit, and submit timecards from your mobile device
Easily manage accrued time, attendance policies and leave cases
- Manage paid time off, absences, and leave management in one integrated solution directly from the dashboard
- Save time and make confident decisions with built-in AI
Promote proper staffing and decrease labor costs with automated scheduling
- Create and adjust employee schedules with hassle-free scheduling tools
- Let employees view and manage their schedule and availability from their mobile devices
Drive productivity with workforce analytics and benchmarking
- Confidently make decisions with available data right from your customized dashboard
- Leverage ADPs workforce insights and benchmark data
Streamline your payroll and HCM processes with one system
- Save time for your employees with seamless popular HCM systems integrations
- One log in to manage all your business data and fewer help requests
- Workforce Manager mobile app for clocking and viewing schedules, pay stubs, benefits and more
Reduce compliance risk through automation
- Reduce workplace compliance risks with automated state, local, union, and organizational policy updates
- Access our content library for all the tools and information you need
- Get around-the-clock access to ADP’s team of compliance experts
Get everything you need at a glance with our seamless workforce management software
- Customize your dashboard to effectively manage your team
- Makes it easy to surface the information you need
- Easily allows managers and employees to stay in sync
Control labor costs, boost productivity and simplify compliance with the market leading Workforce Management suite
ISG recognized ADP as an Overall leader and Exemplary provider for Workforce Management in the ISG 2025 Workforce Management Buyers Guide. ADP Workforce Management solutions feature time and attendance, scheduling, and absence management capabilities for enterprises of all sizes, even the largest and most complex global organizations
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An improved mobile experience for an improved employee experience
While today’s workforces are constantly on the go, our mobile app makes it easier than ever for them to stay connected with their teams. Through our easy-to-use mobile app, employees and managers alike can:
- Clock in, clock out, and track time
- Adjust and approve schedules
- Request time off and find replacements
- Approve requests or swap shifts
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Innovative workforce management software
With over 100,000 workforce management clients, ADP has proven it can help companies large and small, all over the world achieve their goals.
See the latest innovations from the industry leader in workforce management software.
- 100% mobile access for improved workforce productivity
- AI-assisted decision-making and forecasting
- Dashboards with up-to-the-minute visibility
- Expert consultation on wage and hour compliance
Address evolving workforce management needs
A mobile, multi-generational workforce is converging with AI to accelerate the pace of business and rapid, ongoing changes to regulations make it more challenging to remain compliant. But with ADP’s workforce management, you may be able to adapt to these changes and rethink how work gets done. Our software can help you:
- Meet the varied work expectations of multi-generational employees
- Use mobile capability to spot and correct issues in real-time
- Make crucial decisions faster with the power of machine learning
- Automate administrative processes to avoid costly errors
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ADP has really made it so easy ... basically all [employees] really have to do is push a button and all of a sudden those hours apply. There's really not a lot of training to get that employee up to speed.
Pia Saks Payroll Manager, Vanderbilt Global Services
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Workforce Manager gives us significant granularity into the amount of time that our professors are spending in the classroom or tutoring, and that helps us determine best practices within the company for the delivery of a product.
Steve Budosh CFO, Education Affiliates
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We’ve seen a tremendous amount of value added since implementing Optimized Scheduling. The overall visibility it provides to our management team and our employees is wonderful. To have one uniform application with the scheduling tool helps us to properly forecast based on historical data and make real-time decisions that positively impact our labor.
Jon Freedman Manager Payroll, Viejas Casino and Resort
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Workforce management FAQs
What does workforce management mean?
Workforce management means balancing an organization’s available labor resources with its workload needs. To do this successfully, many employers integrate and automate essential tasks. As a result, they’re often better equipped to handle changing economic pressures, shortages in worker skills and competencies, and fatigued or disengaged employees.
What are workforce management tools?
The methods that an organization may use to manage its employees largely depends on its industry, workforce attributes, work locations and strategic goals. However, businesses looking to improve their efficiency and productivity commonly use these workforce management tools:
- Time and attendance
- Data collection
- Scheduling
- Absence management
- Analytics and reporting
- Compliance
Why is workforce management important?
Workforce management is important because organizations that lack the proper tools to track time and attendance and support compliance leave themselves vulnerable to missed opportunities and significant risk. But with workforce management software, business can operate more effectively by having the right employees in the right place, at the right time and for the right cost.
What is workforce management strategy?
A successful workforce management strategy is one that remains open to new ideas and ways of doing business. Employers who take this approach may be better able to address evolving human capital needs and create a sustainable advantage for their organization to flourish.
What is HR workforce management?
HR workforce management seeks to simplify compliance, improve employee productivity and engagement, forecast labor requirements and budgets, and reduce operational costs. That’s why workforce management is a critical part of today’s comprehensive human capital management solutions.
What is workforce management scheduling?
Workforce management scheduling is the process of planning staffing needs based on forecasted consumer demand and employee availability, skills and preferences. When aided by software, employers can access real-time analytics, such as earned hours and overtime, to improve their decision making and adjust shifts as necessary.
- "The Total Economic Impact™ of ADP Workforce Now — Cost Savings and Business Benefits Enabled by Workforce Now," Forrester, October 2017.
- K60 Guidebook ADP, Nucleus Research, October 2010.
- "Productivity: Managing and Measuring a Workforce," Aberdeen Group, January 2015.
- "The Total Economic Impact™ of ADP Workforce Now — Cost Savings and Business Benefits Enabled by Workforce Now," Forrester, October 2017.