Friday 17 November 2017

Easy Time Clock Software Can Benefit Any Business

By Daniel Perry


Any company that employs staff is plagued with keeping track of their employees' time and attendance. Using a manual attendance register is often not reliable and open to abuse by the very staff that they need to monitor. A good solution is to install easy time clock software that can keep an accurate track of staff movements. It allows management to keep control of staff and monitor their work hours.

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 manual attendance registers of the past were not a reliable or accurate way of keeping time records. Relying on staff to accurately record their own times gave them leeway, even under supervision, to write the incorrect data down. They could attempt to cover up late-coming and also claim for overtime work that had not taken place.

It also gave supervisors the ability to cheat on timekeeping. If they had a staff member that they particularly favoured or disliked, they could show bias and adjust and alter their times to either benefit or penalise them. Obviously, this is not only unfair on staff and employer, but it is also seen as stealing since time is money.

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 readers are usually linked to the main computer system using 3G or wireless internet, maintain the correct time and date and allowing for remote access and repairs. It is a cost-effective and reliable method of running the devices. This also means that the data is instantly available and various reports can be set up from the software. Levels of access to the system and data is also possible.

Readers can be installed at the main entrances to the premises as well as secure areas because they not only control arrival, departure and attendance, they also control access if correctly set up and linked to a door or gate. Once the worker places his finger on the reader and it reads the fingerprint, he is identified and his time is linked to his file. If the staff member does not have access to that particular area or is only allowed in during specific times, the system does not allow the access controlled door or gate to open.

Even manual clock cards are able to be abused in some way, with staff punching in for mates who haven't arrived as yet, or the last person in a long line may be tagged as late, simply due to their place in the queue. The foolproof biometric system can be set to allow a leeway of several minutes to accommodate this. Depending on the chosen program, the system keeps an updated record for the worker including their position, pay grade, allocated shifts and annual leave.




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