CyberShift Survey Finds Primary Drivers for Workforce Management Include Cost Reduction and Improved Employee Productivity; Findings Validate Need for CyberShift's Web-Based Workforce Management Solution.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- According to a recent survey conducted by CyberShift, Inc., a leading provider of workforce management software and services, approximately 80 percent of companies surveyed are looking to workforce management solutions to either reduce costs, improve employee productivity or a combination of both. These survey results, researched with attendees of the Society of Human Resource Management Annual Conference & Exposition, June 19-22, 2005, and the American Payroll Association Leadership Forum, Aug. 9-12, 2005, come from human resources, payroll and operations professionals who experience the most challenges with optimizing workforce schedules and matching the right person with the right skills to the right job.

While time and attendance continues to be a focus, with 37 percent identifying it as a top priority, scheduling is also viewed as extremely important; 20 percent view labor scheduling as a logical extension to a time and attendance solution. Furthermore, the CyberShift survey revealed that manual processes, such as time and attendance data entry, and lack of integration with other business critical systems, such as payroll, posed the most significant challenges due to errors and inefficiencies.

"As people are a company's most valuable asset, it becomes critical to ensure schedules are optimized, providing the best fit of employees to jobs," said Robert Farina, CEO of CyberShift. "Web-based workforce management solutions help organizations achieve world-class performance by effectively deploying available workforce assets for greater bottom-line benefits, including cost savings and improved employee productivity. This ability to plan, manage and optimize the efficiency and performance of a workforce becomes vital to the success of business operations and leads to exceptional corporate performance."

CyberShift's enterprise-class workforce management product suite offers large, complex organizations a robust and highly scalable solution for improved productivity and workforce optimization, all at a reasonable cost. Using a rules-based technology platform built upon an agile Service-Oriented Architecture, CyberShift's Workforce Management suite enables organizations to achieve substantial business benefits and competitive advantage by optimizing the deployment of workforce assets.

With CyberShift's set of fully integrated Web-based software, businesses can automate the tracking of time and attendance; improve overall labor visibility; prepare optimal employee schedules; reduce employee turnover; accurately forecast business demand; and deliver more effective customer service that drives sales.

When asked about the most significant business opportunity relative to workforce management in 2005, decision-makers representing several industry segments, including financial services and insurance, retail, manufacturing, healthcare and the public sector, responded as follows:

--41 percent identified reducing labor costs by improving labor efficiencies;

--39 percent targeted improving employee productivity through better allocation of time and work skills;

--29 percent stated increasing customer satisfaction through better scheduling and employee training, and;

--13 percent chose increasing allocation of employee time to revenue-producing activity.

About CyberShift

CyberShift, Inc. (www.cybershift.com) is a leading provider of workforce management software and services focused on helping large, complex organizations optimize and manage the deployment of their people. CyberShift's rules-based platform delivers a fully integrated solution for the management of all aspects of time and attendance, scheduling, self-service functions and workforce reporting and analytics. The enterprise-class workforce management suite reduces costs and improves processes for a variety of industries, including manufacturing, retail, transportation, financial services, media and entertainment, healthcare and the public sector. CyberShift is the workforce management solution provider of choice for many of the largest organizations throughout the United States and Canada.