Friday, 10 November 2017

Using Easy Time Clock Software In Your Business

By Daniel Perry


Keeping track of time and attendance is the bane of every company and organisation that employs staff, particularly if they get paid by the hour or if they work overtime. Manual registers and clock cards are not always effective as they leave room for abuse. When a company decides to install easy time clock software and use it to keep track of staff, it frees management up considerably while allowing accurate monitoring.

Workers that are not making their weekly attendance requirement will be able to be dealt with in an appropriate manner, correcting any tardiness and slacking and eliminating time wasting. This will ultimately improve productivity within the company. Staff morale could improve as a result.

The old way of capturing hours worked, using a book and either letting staff capture their own arrival and departure times or having a supervisor do it, is generally not accurate. Either people would falsely capture the information to cover up wrong-doing such as arriving at work late or leaving early, or claim overtime when they had not worked longer hours.

Supervisors that were less than honest had the control and could easily lie in the old system. They could show bias towards particular staff members, altering times to either favour or penalise them as they felt like doing. Besides the obvious matter of unfairness to the staff member that is now losing time that they worked, it's stealing and should be considered as such.

The moment a correctly installed automated clocking system is installed into a place of work, it eliminates the risk of abuse very quickly. Collected data is protected within the system, access levels can be set and the information is available immediately as the program can update constantly. There is no longer a delay caused by waiting for outlying branches to send in physical reports, no more manual calculations of time and no further room for cheating, allowing for fair business practice.

The devices that are installed operate on either 3G or the local wireless internet. They are able to be remotely accessed for repairs and updates if necessary as well as retaining accurate time and dates. It is an efficient and effective way of running the system. Data is always instantly available to whomever requires it, with easily set up reports automatically being sent to the people that need to see them. Allowing different levels of data access is also an option.

Any of the readers, as well as any number of them, can be installed where required. Having a reader at the main entrance to the company, and linking it to the door or gate, allows entry only upon positive identification. Security is also upgraded as it can prevent certain staff from accessing restricted areas, or only allow entry during certain times. The worker will place his finger on the scanner and once his fingerprint is identified, the time is linked to his record.

While manual clock cards are still open to abuse in some way, the biometric clocking system is practically foolproof. The workforce is required to have their fingerprints scanned and linked to their identity. Within the system, everything relevant pertaining to that staff member is recorded. Their position, the shifts they are expected to work, their annual leave days as well as their pay rate, depending on the chosen program.




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