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Nippon: Workforce management solution by HCL Technologies

Overview

In today's world, the rate at which organizations are transitioning to remote working continues to accelerate. As a result, maintaining seamless collaboration across a distributed global workforce—while also enhancing employee experience—has become a top priority. Artificial Intelligence is now playing a transformative role in this shift, enabling smarter workflows, predictive insights, and real-time support to optimize engagement and efficiency. Leveraging AI-powered productivity management tools has thus become a critical lever, not just for navigating remote work challenges, but also for maximizing operational resilience and driving sustained business performance.
Organizations now face the challenge of managing a dispersed workforce and dynamic workforce, making it essential to adopt advanced workforce management tools to ensure organizational alignment, productivity, and operational efficiency.
Productivity management for an individual, a team, or an organization revolves around four components: The ability to plan strategically, taking a 360-degree view of data; staying focused on a task at hand; aided by minimized hindrance and encouraged by recognition; and finally, the ability to prioritize work and follow through consistently.
Collaborative technologies and solutions can help us achieve these, especially when managing remote teams.

Product

HCL Nippon Trademark is an AI-powered, contactless, and automated SaaS solution designed to meet the evolving needs of a remote and hybrid workforce. At its core, it leverages artificial intelligence to capture effort and output data while accurately upholding employee privacy. By automating attendance tracking and streamlining workforce operations, Nippon ensures compliance with minimal manual intervention. Its AI-driven analytics enhance data accuracy, reduce human error, and enable seamless integration with payroll systems—minimizing corrections and ensuring reliable reporting.

What sets HCL Nippon apart is its intelligent correlation of effort and output, offering deep insights into team productivity and employee wellness. The built-in smart time tracker enables real-time visibility into time utilization, empowering managers with actionable insights for project optimization. With AI algorithms continuously learning from workforce patterns, stakeholders can proactively identify inefficiencies, analyze performance trends, and implement targeted improvement measures. HCL Nippon transforms workforce management from reactive to predictive—driving agility, accountability, and productivity at scale.

HCL Nippon Lite

  • Engagement tracking
  • Input effort tracking

HCL Nippon Plus

  • Engagement tracking
  • Input effort tracking
  • Effort: Output mapping

HCL Nippon Buddy App: Personal Dashboard For Employee Wellness

HCL Nippon Buddy App: Personal Dashboard For Employee Wellness

HCL Nippon Buddy App: Personal Dashboard For Employee Wellness


For firms that value their employees’ work-life balance, HCL Nippon is an app that helps maintain employee wellness and provides a way to work better in the new normal. This workforce management software equips one with a time-based view on work habits, an account of the daily efforts, and proactive employee engagement. The app also helps monitor workload and prevent employee burnout by promoting a healthy work-life balance.

Features

Work Yoga

Work Yoga

Graphical insight into work habits

Flow Time

Flow Time

Time-based view of user activities, applications, and purpose, allowing you to monitor employee activity and measure productivity effectively.

Personal dashboard

Personal dashboard

Customizable for user summary. The dashboard provides practical insights for users, helping them quickly understand staff activities and project performance.

activities

Activities

Enable the user to view and account for daily efforts for better workforce productivity, leading to improved workforce productivity and helping to boost productivity through automation and increased visibility into workforce metrics.

HCL Nippon Buddy Enables Employees To

View employee availability and manage work schedules, making it easier for employees and managers to coordinate shifts, adjust schedules in real-time, and ensure optimal staffing.

Solutions

Experience An Array Of Work-Process Benefits

Telecommuting (remote workforce)

  • Embracing the hybrid work culture
  • Guide your team to operate efficiently across time zones
  • Productivity intelligence to improve remote working patterns

Workforce productivity and analytics

  • Empowering workforce, processes, and technology with data-driven decisions by leveraging real-time analytics to monitor costs and maximize productivity
  • Identifying skill gaps and enabling cross-skilling and upskilling requirements
  • Analytics to make the workforce agile, data-driven, and more efficient
  • Building a transparent and high-performing work culture

Reporting

  • Analyze work patterns across different custom-defined phases: Sprints, Iterations, and Releases
  • Correlation between the team’s SLA performance and the overall team’s effort
  • Measure the effectiveness of training, or the change implemented
  • Help teams define ‘focus hours’ based on data analysis to encourage more time on core work
  • Get a detailed breakdown of hours worked and employee time allocation, with reporting features that include attendance data, tracking time, and analyzing how the team spends their work hours. This helps organizations track employee time, optimize productivity, and improve payroll accuracy

Employee Welfare

  • Empowered with data for an enhanced work-life balance
  • Promote and reward good work practices using Work Yoga challenges
  • Promote mindfulness and wellness with ‘Take a break’ reminder pop-ups
  • Reduced prolonged work hours
  • Significant reduction in ‘after-work’ hours

Insights

Leverage deep data analytics across organizational levels to meet varied objectives, providing complete visibility into workforce operations.

Leadership

Promote a culture of continuous improvement that empowers everyone in your organization to set and achieve big goals:

  • Achieve full clarity into efforts across the enterprise
  • Get a cross-functional view of the efforts
  • Anticipate impact through predictive analytics
  • Identify workforce inefficiencies

Human Resources

Develop, retain, and engage teams across your organization with HR workforce analytics that deliver productivity insights:

  • Get a view of the organization’s work patterns
  • Collect data for positive HR interventions
  • Obtain information to aid objective performance evaluation

Managers

Develop and maintain an environment where the team works together to for achieving collective goals:

  • Understand team capacity utilization
  • Measure team and employee effectiveness
  • Identify top talent for role enhancement
  • Identify skill improvement needs

Employees

The data collected is pivotal in employee self-assessment and improvement:

  • Understand how much effort is being put
  • Distribute time across critical and non-critical activities
  • Understand the output created
  • Look for self-improvement opportunities

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