5 Reasons to Streamline your Time & Attendance Processes

Streamlining your businesses time and attendance processes could benefit your organisation in a number of ways. Implementing a time and attendance systems allows you to not only automate your processes but also provides you with analytical data on all of your employees absence records.

5 reasons to streamline your time & attendance proccesses

Remote access to key data – Ceequel Applications

The Elf productivity Ceequel application suite contains 3 mobilised apps that are accessible to download on Apple,Android and Window phones. The Apps available are titled Ceeqel Clock, Ceequel track, Ceequel serve and have been designed to integrate with your web based Ceequel system.

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ELF Productivity Ceequel Portfolio

Here at Elf productivity we offer a range of services that intertwine together to form our Ceequel software suite. Each module can help you as a business deal with the different time consuming tasks your departments face on a daily basis. For example our easy to use time and attendance suite has revolutionised the way in which hundreds of organisations gather n track their employee attendance information.

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Centralise all your human resource and time management requirements with Ceequel

Here at Elf Productivity Ltd we offer a wide variety of products and services to our clients. Over 30 years of collective experience within the time and attendance market allows us to provide you with unparalleled industry knowledge and expertise. Why not check out this inforgraphic for more information about what is is we do.

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Time and Attendance with Employee Self Service

Businesses are always looking for new modern day technologies that will help them with their every day processes. Here at Elf Productivity we have developed a reliable technological solution that’s not only cost effective but can help increase the productivity of your workforce. We offer a wide variety of software suites that integrate into one main easy to use system.

Employee Self Service

Companies are always searching for ways to make their investment in technology work better for them. They want to use technology to increase their production levels, ultimately saving on both time and costs. Ideally increasing sales and revenue which is the goal of every company.  But they are also looking to use technology in such a way that would benefit their employees as well.

At Elf Productivity Limited, we provide the technological solutions that companies seek. Our time management and attendance systems offer choices that are reliable and cost effective. Not only do we provide advanced and dynamic time and attendance systems to our clients, we also provide consultancy and guidance through our extensive industry knowledge.

Our Employee Self Service Module

One of the solutions (using leading web technology) is the Employee Self Service module with Time and Attendance. This browser based solution allows employees to have access to their own work records. It supports employees in gaining more confidence, knowledge and acts as a way of motivating them to become more productive in their role. The fact that they can access their records whenever they want makes them feel more in control and empowered. From an IT department perspective – there is very little IT footprint.

Employees can have access to their data through a number of ways. They can use their own computer or tablet to view their data, or they can see it through a touch screen terminal or central kiosk. Companies also have the option of linking it to their existing LAN, WAN, and/or Intranet.  Being browser based enables employees to gain access to their Self-Service portal from the comfort of their own homes.

Some of the benefits your employees can expect from this efficient employee self-service solution, include –

  • Employees have visibility of their teams schedule prior to booking an absence, such as Holiday, Time off in Lieu (TOIL), Doctors etc.  This can be seen through the Holidays/Absence screen which shows the details of previous, current, and the next holiday years.
  • It is now even easier for employees to monitor the total number of hours they have worked – including overtime. Visibility on a week by week basis, makes it easier for them to see when absences have occurred.  It enables people to compute their salaries, view their total hours, lost hours and overtime etc.
  • Employers can devolve the upkeep of employee personal details – to the employee.  This may include contact details, bank details, next of kin and emergency contact.  The employer sets the level of editing permissions within Time and Attendance and can be administered down to employee level.
  • Providing an employee with visibility of their basic hours, flexi-time bank, overtime, paid and unpaid absences maintains the transparency between employee and employer. Employees can freely interact with management through the overview screen and provide detailed explanations and/or reasons for lateness or absences.
  • Multi-media access to Employee Self-Service supports your environment, including – Username/Password, Biometric and Proximity card/fob.

Elf Productivity Limited has (over the years) combined extensive industry knowledge and expertise in creating one of the most sophisticated and dynamic time management software suites available.  Because of this – Elf Productivity Limited is now seen as one of the industry leaders not just in the UK but world-wide.  For more information on our Employee Self Service or other Software Modules, please feel free to contact us or visit our website.

Time & Attendance – making Calculations Easy

Keeping track of your employees time and attendance is an important part of any organisation. Recording this data helps to streamline your business processes and relieves the unneeded stress on both your payroll and HR department. With the use of a time and attendance system both of the above processes can be achieved in a simplistic way.

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Time management is a crucial process in all organisations.  Without it there’s a very good chance your business wouldn’t be where it is today.  Time management systems monitor your employee’s time & attendance on a day-to-day basis.  This data often includes calculated hours worked and should even provide breakdown information of jobs, operations or activities – productive and non-productive.  The data reordered is accurate streamlining your payroll department’s processes by removing the manual calculations surrounding hours worked (incl. overtime), absences paid or even bonuses.

With the assistance of Elf Productivity’s – absence management module, Ceequel Time and Attendance can now do a lot more than just track the hour’s an employee works.  Ceequel now monitors minutes, hours, half or full day absences by individual employees and picks up on whether the absence was authorised or unauthorised.  Absences are also available to be viewed by department, cost centre and location.  This makes it easier than ever to stay on top of what’s happening within your organisation at any-one-time.

Ceequel Time and Attendance also delivers advanced calculations; such as the ability to identify employees who have a long period of absence – as opposed to those who have sporadic periods of absence often over a long period of time.  Elf Productivity’s Ceequel system provides this level of in-depth analysis through the use of configurable absence codes and will even cater for shift-rest-days.

Data such as hours or gross wages can easily be passed from Ceequel time & attendance through to your payroll department.

All data within Elf Productivity’s Ceequel Software Suite shares a single database, eradicating double keying of data.  Data is real-time and all modules have access to the same data instantly.

Businesses truly looking for process improvements, transparency of information and enhanced people management should only look at a single solution that integrates Time & Attendance system with Human Resources.

A single combined system contains accurate information on each employee’s life with the business.  This will include start dates, finish dates, duration of working day, hours worked.  This means that if an employee doesn’t clock in to the system on a day they are due to work the correct absence code will be generated for all departments to see. In addition to this your human resource department has the ability to input more information such as reason for absence, attach a sick note or a return to work form.

Even-more-so a visionary company looking to drive their organisation and maximise efficiencies will further enhance their single (Time & Attendance and HR) system by introducing Employee Self Service.

Elf productivity’s hardware is industry standard and is also designed with the future in mind. Data capture communications are generally TCP/IP and are in true real-time. For remote clocking terminals communications can be established via mobile phone data sim cards or alternatively why not implement both Android and iPhone iClock applications. Not only can you clock using the apps but at the same time as capturing your clocking time – the system also captures the longitude and latitude of the device.

There are various technology types available to collect the data including, barcode, proximity fob, proximity card, fingerprint, hand or face biometric.

If you’re looking for one integrated system that will not only manage all of your business needs but also simplify your processes – contact us today!

The Latest Advancement in Keeping Time and Attendance

For many years Employers have been trying to find a way in which they can accurately record and track their employees time and attendance data. Old fashion methods such as mechanical punch cards were often time consuming and resulted in the loss of money for many organisations. Modern day technology has revitalised the way in which companies can now track and record their employees time and attendance data.

Ever since hourly wage was invented, employers have been looking for a reliable, tamper-free way to keep track of what hours each employee worked. Originally, there were simple write-in time cards, and in time those were replaced by mechanical punch cards. These cards made it impossible to simply alter your time, but they also take valuable minutes off of workers’ productivity as one shift lines up to clock out, and the other lines up to clock in. The bigger the crowd, the more minutes are wasted on time clock rigmarole. While technology has advanced, and many businesses have adopted ID cards with swipe-in features, those cards are little more than a computerised version of the punch clock.

Elf Productivity Ltd. has decided to offer businesses a different option, one that’s simple, effective, and which eliminates the shift change bottleneck that older methods create.

Time and Attendance Software

The way our time and attendance software works is that employees log in to your business’ network, and sign in from their own devices. This means that any connection capable device, from a workstation to a smartphone, will allow an employee to clock in. There’s no wasted time standing around a clock, and even better, there’s no need to buy a peripheral device for employees to “clock in” with at all. Not only that, but this software makes it possible for employees to work from home or in the field without losing track of how many hours they’ve been on the clock.

It’s simple, straightforward, and best of all, it’s only one of dozens of features that will help streamline your business’ network. If you’d like to know more about the features we offer, simply contact us today!

Employee Self-Service puts the Power back in your Employees’ hands

For many years now the updating of employee data has been a task for your human recourse department. Modern day software such as employee self-service now makes it possible for your employees to manage and update their own personal data. It’s simplistic to use and works by providing each individual employee with their own web based profile that they can sign into.

The more people you employ, the harder it is to keep track of everyone; even a mid-sized enterprise of a hundred people or so is going to experience constant change as people get married, divorced, change banks, move to new addresses, and make a thousand other little adjustments from one year to the next. In the past, keeping up on all these changes was the Human Resources department’s job. Thanks to advances in software, though, you can implement employee self-service.

What is Employee Self-Service?

Employee self-service is when you put the responsibility of tracking employee information back in the hands of your employees. Rather than filling out forms, handing those forms to Human Resources, and then having them input the changes, why not cut out the middle man and let your employees fix their own details?

It sounds like a revolutionary idea, but in a world where Facebook is old hat, and social media has altered the way software works forever, it’s actually quite simple. Every employee has his or her own company profile, and when that information is changed it goes right into the system. There’s no need to fill out any paperwork, and no need to waste time by stacking a task onto someone else’s shoulders (especially a task that can be completed in minutes).

Employee self-service does more than save time and money, though. It lets employees take control of their own information, and it gives them the ability to do tasks for themselves. This simplifies your infrastructure, and it means that more people can spend more energy on the job at hand instead of on making sure you have their updated direct deposit, married name, new address, or any other details.

For more information on how we can help your business, simply contact us today!

The Access Control of the Future

Choosing the right method to keep your information secure can be a difficult task for any organisation and with so many to choose from the task can often seem like an impossible one. Not securing your data however is out of the question as unsecured data can be accessed by anyone, thus increasing the risk of sensitive information landing in the wrong hands.

Access control is one of the oldest business practices known to mankind. The earliest developments involved guards and bars, but as technology advanced we invented everything from lock boxes to secret panels. In today’s digital world, we have access to more methods of access control than ever before, but the sheer variety of options can sometimes seem like a burden. After all, how do you choose the right lock to keep your business safe?

Flexible Digital Access Control

This is a question that Elf Productivity Ltd. has pondered over quite a bit, and the answer it created is both simple, and elegant. That answer is a software suite that integrates every function a business needs to get through the day, but which is simple enough that even those who don’t consider themselves tech savvy can use with little instruction.

So what does it do? Well, a little of everything. This particular software suite has an integrated time clock, for example, and it also provides different levels of accessibility depending on an individual’s clearance. A standard employee can sign into his or her account, clock in, and access all of the programs needed to do the day’s work. Employees can even access their personal information, changing it as needed in the event that they have a name change, move, or make any other alterations. At the same time, though, the system makes sure that only people with clearance can access employee write-ups, look at work history, or gain access to financial data.

In short, the software provides a flexible system that will handle anything your business can throw at it, while at the same time making sure you can lock any digital doors you need to. For more information on this software suite, and how it can help your business, simply contact us today!

Employee Self Service saves Time, Money, and Frustration

Your businesses Human Resources department often wastes a significant amount of time each month updating individual employee information. Not only is this time better spent elsewhere, it is also costing your business money. By implementing an employee self service system you can transfer the task of updating employee data over to your employees.

We’ve all heard the old saw about how the Human Resources Department moves as fast as an arthritic tortoise in a school zone. You got a new apartment last month, you got married, you opened a different bank account, and even though you submitted the forms as required, it still took more than a month for HR to get around to correcting your details. Maybe you missed a pay cheque, had an important work correspondence sent to the wrong address, or you just had the wrong name on your taxes, but while details change, the story stays the same; if there was a faster way to alter your personal information, neither you nor your company would be inconvenienced.

Fortunately there is a way you can sidestep HR entirely, it’s called Employee Self Service.

How Does Employee Self Service Work?

The concept is pretty simple: under a more traditional system you would fill out a form detailing your personal information changes, along with any necessary proofs, and you’d give those forms to the HR department. HR’s personnel would put those forms on a big stack, and eventually work its way to making your updates. This might take days if you’re lucky, weeks on average, or more than a month if there’s a big backup of work.

Employee Self Service, on the other hand, allows you to skip the middle man. You simply log into your business’ network, go to your profile, and change the information to reflect what it is now, you save the change, and then go back to doing your job.

It’s That Simple?

It is, actually. While there are still a lot of tasks that require HR personnel, technology has put the power to control personal information into the hands of employees. The changes can be done in mere moments, ensuring that all information is current and up-to-date without getting bogged down in an inbox somewhere.

For more information on Employee Self Service, and how it can change the way you do business, simply contact us today!