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Access Control keeps your Employees and Sensitive Information safe

In this day and age protecting company and client data is paramount if you want to run a successful business. Access control systems are revolutionising the way in which businesses control access not only to their data, but to their building’s restricted areas. The admittance to a building can now be controlled via the use of card or biometric thumb print.

In this day and age, theft and break ins are an everyday occurrence. For business owners, keeping your employees and sensitive company data safe is imperative to the functionality of your business. Access Control is revolutionising the way businesses grant access to their building and restricted areas. It is helping to keep employees safe by only granting admittance to the building through use of a card or biometric thumb print. It also only allows authorised employees into certain areas of the building.

Back in the old days, companies used to employ a guard to watch doors that only certain staff members were allowed into; however, what happened if the guard had to use the toilet, or go to lunch, or simply wasn’t paying attention? With access control, there is no room for human error.

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Time and Attendance is as Important as Your Company

In order to run a successful company you need to have a fully functioning time and attendance system in place. The data collected by this software can be used to help your business save the right amount of time and money in order to improve business processes in other departments. Check out these points below regarding keeping track of your employees time and attendance.

Time and Attendance is as Important as Your Company

When it comes to your Time and Attendance policies, having  software that actually works is somewhat imperative if you want to run a successful company. Using this software helps save the right amount of money to put in all the right places. Here are some points and some info in regards to keeping track of time and attendance from your employees.

The older method of using pen and ink to keep track of employee attendance went out of style some hundred or so years ago, and has been replaced with a few other methods. This method of using software makes it much easier to keep track of who missed which day and how late so and so was on that day.

When people don’t keep a close enough eye on the amount of absences and lates that their employees have gotten, their business is the one that suffers. The more you use time and attendance software, the easier you find it to be to keep your employees in line and your business on schedule with your long term and short term plans.

With this software, your employees can clock in and out, and you can enter a different number into the system if there was a mistake like the employee forgetting to clock out on a previous day, and getting paid extra for time they spent at home instead of at work.

You can even keep track of the exact time that an employee has earned vacation and sick days for, as well as the amount of hours they have already taken off. This saves so much time and effort, and makes it a more convenient way to reward your faithful employees, and keep an eye on the ones that don’t seem to view their job as a priority.

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Biometrics for Time and Attendance

When it comes to time and attendance software within a business there’s nothing hotter than a biometrics system. Fingerprint and hand scanners not only improve attendances, record accurately and keep everything secure they also look like something out of a bond film whilst doing so. This technology is nothing new however it’s only just becoming ever more popular within the business sector.

One of the hottest trends in time keeping for businesses is biometrics. A fingerprint or hand scan time clock improves attendance, accuracy, and security. While looking like something out of a James Bond movie, or The Matrix, the technology has actually been around since the 1960s. However, applying this technology to business is becoming popular. As a way to track time and attendance, biometric scanners offer some great options. However, what many employers are finding is a resistance from employees towards using them. While some may simply regret the loss of wiggle room on their time punches, some people have more extreme concerns.

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Employee Time and Attendance Self Service: Popular with Employees and Employers

Times have changed since the use of old fashioned time clocks and modern day technology now means your employees can clock in and out on a computerised system. Ceequel employee self service records your company clocking information on a database freeing your company’s managers from having to enter employee times.

Time and attendance software requires an employee self service component to be a fully featured tool.

What advantages does self service provide?

Employees control their own clockings without an expensive hardware time clock.

Old fashioned time clocks require a person to enter time from physical time cards and more modern dedicated time clocks are costly. A modern, fully featured time system, like Ceequel®, maintains clockings in a database. Employee self service frees managers from having to enter employee times.

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Keeping Employee Training Current with Human Resource Management Software

Employee training and development is an important aspect of any successful business as the roles within each industry sector are forever changing. Organising and managing employee training and development often falls upon the shoulders of human resources who are not always able to keep track of who’s completed what as they are backlogged with more pressing tasks. Implementing a human resource management system can help manage your employees training by alerting human resources to training days employees may need and by notifying them when there are training sessions coming up.

Continuous employee training and development is one of the important aspects of a successful enterprise. Often the responsibility of determining staff training and developmental needs falls on the shoulders of individuals within the Human Resource Department. Unfortunately, keeping track of employee training and development can fall to the wayside due to the HR’s department’s need to keep up with other important daily business operation processes.

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Are your ID Badges Simplifying Shop Floor Data Capture?

Smart ID cards are slowly becoming paramount for companies who wish to simplify their shop floor data capture process. The ID badges that are provided when you implement the Ceequel time and attendance system allow your employees to accomplish a number of important day to day functions such as the ones listed below.

It used to be that the multi-purpose ID pass was the stuff of science fiction. These days, however, smart ID cards are becoming a common tool for simplifying the process of shop floor data capture. With the ID badges that come standard with time and attendance systems from Ceequel, your employees can accomplish a number of important daily functions with the same clip-on badge.

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Three Big Reasons you need Ceequel Access Control for your Organisation

Making sure your many different business sites are secure may be the single most important job of your technology department. With data breaches on the up making sure your company’s data system is secure has never been more important. The problem with having really tight security on your network however, is that you risk locking your own employees out of information they need to complete their day to day jobs.

Securing your many different business sites may be the single most important priority of the information technology department at your organisation. With data breaches making ongoing headlines for unfortunate retailers and other companies across the globe, an even more discerning eye has been focused on corporate security.

One of the problems with having really tight security over your company’s resources is that some personnel do actually need to have access to your data. Preventing the bad guys from having access is absolutely necessary, but you still need to allow the good guys, who work for you, the necessary data and access to do their jobs. This is where the idea of corporate security morphs into the more correct term of access control.

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Shop Floor Data Capture: Enabling continuous improvement

If within your organisation you would like to implement a formal lean or six sigma program having accurate data from your manufacturing process is key. Invoices and purchase orders lay the trail for analysing your inventory costs. The costs associated with labour needs to also be collected.

It is a frequently cited management truism that “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” From the earliest days of the quality movement within manufacturing, from Taylor to Ford, or Deming and Shingo, and on to Womack and Jones – the simple premise of “measuring everything” has been at the root of continuous improvement. Without a vehicle for enabling Shop Floor Data Capture, however, the amount of labour expended in any manufacturing process is either subjectively measured or likely to experience wide variation and anomalous data.

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Employee Self Service with Ceequel Takes Old School Punch Clocks to a New Dimension

The day and age of punch clocks has come and gone with many business now choosing to switch out the old system for new improved web based time and attendance software. The new system not only allows employees to clock in and out but also containes countless new features for employees and employers to enjoy and appreciate on a day to day basis. Ceequel time and attendance is a web based reporting solution for employee self service that can save your company time and money.

Some things in life and pop culture alike are indeed timeless. Fans of the old Bugs Bunny cartoons from decades ago know this to be true, because watching some of those old episodes is still enough to make even the most uptight among us fall of the couch laughing on occasion. Take, for instance, the old cartoon with Sam the Sheepdog and Ralph the Coyote (a.k.a. “Wile E. Coyote”) reporting for work at a field full of sheep. Sam’s job is to guard the herd and Ralph’s job consequently is to attempt to abduct the herd. The episode begins and ends with them punching in and out of a time clock mechanically fastened to a tree, which reports their attendance. The punching serves as a double meaning here, whereas as soon as they “punch in”, Sam commences with “punching in” Ralph’s face… classic cartoon comedy.

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Reducing the Workload for Human Resources

Two of the most important tasks a human resource department is the maintenance of all company employees and the successful implementation of new starters. Both of these aspects require HR personnel to spend valuable company time completing mundane tasks. With Ceequel HR management these functions can actually be automated reducing time and saving money.

Two of the responsibilities of Human Resources (HR) are maintaining the organisation chart of a company and successfully bringing in new starters. Both aspects of HR involve personnel spending time on mundane details. With Ceequel these HR management functions can be automated reducing the time spent. In addition process improvements are observed.

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