Employee time management and meeting payroll deadlines is hard enough in the average workplace, but it’s a whole other situation when your total number of employees fluctuates seasonally up or down by roughly 500 part-time and full-time workers. Add to that a working environment that spans over 25,000 acres and keeping track of your staff moved to a whole new level of complexity. That was the situation facing Sharon Christianson, Payroll Coordinator How ExecuTime™ Software Saved Time and Money While Improving Customer Service for Three Rivers Park District in the suburban Minneaplois /St.Paul metro area of Minnesota. First developed in 1957, Three Rivers includes 29 park locations including reserve areas, regional parks, and special use areas visited by over three-million people per year. In 2005, Three Rivers issued 1,679 W2’s but has only 320 permanent employees. The rest are seasonal employees.
On the IT side, Three Rivers utilizes SunGard Public Sector and their payroll application running on an iSeries to manage payroll and personnel. While Three Rivers loves using Sun-Gard Public Sector, they wanted to further streamline the process for entering employee time and data into their system. …