Category: Time and Attendance

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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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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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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Syncing Time and Attendance Records

The best way for your business to enhance their bookkeeping and accounting is by syncing your time and attendance records between both departments. Syncing the data between the two makes sure every single one of your employees is paid on time and correctly every pay period.

Syncing Time and Attendance records is often the best way for a business to enhance their bookkeeping and accounting. Offering jobs to people in the community is a beautiful thing for a business to do. However, those jobs must pay well and pay properly to every employee.

With a time and attendance program that is synced to the company’s accounting or payroll system, every employee can be paid exactly what they are owed every pay period. This is especially helpful for the business owner who is working their business alone. The time and attendance software can transmit employee information to the business’ accounting or payroll program.

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Time and Attendance Software Helps You Make Remote Sites More Efficient

Whether you operate on one site or more tracking your employees time and attendance data is an important part of running your business. Managing time and attendance on multiple sites however used to present a number of challenges for a business. Modern day time and attendance systems combat these challenges by providing you with a centralised solution.

Keeping track of your company’s time and attendance data is an important part of running your business whether you operate out of one site or a dozen. However, managing time and attendance at multiple sites presents one with a number of unique challenges. Modern time and attendance software can help you meet these challenges in a number of ways.

Most importantly, time and attendance software provides you with a centralised solution to your time and attendance needs. We at ELF recommend Ceequel time and attendance software for multi-site operations because of how easy it is to connect your sites using this program. Whether you need to handle a network of locations, mobile locations, or locations in extremely remote areas, Ceequel’s time and attendance module offers you connectivity options that lets your employees log into your system from anywhere.

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Time and Attendance Issues for Businesses: Increasing Productivity with Time and Attendance Software

Having a non computerised time and attendance solution provides your employees with the ability to take time off here and their as they know you are not able to fully track which employees are working at any one time. A computerised system requires your employees to clock in and out everyday and collects this data within a system all managers have access too.

Time and Attendance is one of the most important aspects of keeping your business productive. Employees can sometimes take advantage of the fact that you may or may not notice when they come to work. Many businesses do have “clocking in” procedures in place but even these can be thwarted by asking a friend to do it for them or other ways.

There are other problems, too, regarding incentives to get people motivated to attend more regularly. Working mothers often call in with sick children. Some workers have health problems or other issues that get in the way of their regular attendance. Those things do happen and people do have problems, lives, and responsibilities outside of the work place.

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How Employee Self Service Could Simplify the Time Management and Payroll Process

Allowing your employees to keep charge of their own schedules and management of time makes them less likely to take unnecessary sick days as they feel empowered. Providing them with the ability to view their time and attendance data as well as request holidays or sick days allows them to take full control over their time at work. Employee self service is a virtual platform that will allow your employees to do this and more.

Employees who feel empowered to take charge of their own schedules and time management are more likely to not call off or to take unnecessary sick days. The ability to look up their time and attendance, request holidays or sick days, and to know their attendance balances gives them the power to take real responsibility for their time and work.

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Streamlining of Business Processes

Having a reliable time an attendance system in place can be used as a way to make sure your management expectations are taken seriously and consistent. By providing you with information about the hours worked by each of your employees as well as overtime and lateness you have full visibility of what what your workforce is up to. This provides you with the ability to spot in the early stages any absence patterns that are beging to creep in.

By installing a reliable and scalable time and attendance system, not only can you ensure calculation of hours worked, absence monitoring, overtime hours and lateness, it can also be used as a tool to ensure management expectations are transparent and consistent across the workforce.
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Time and Attendance Software – Why it matters

With the unemployment rate currently standing at a staggering 8.3% of the economically active population and more small companies going out of business every day, keeping track of your company costs has never been more important. Having a fully functioning time and attendance system within your business will not only help you track your businesses costs but show you where within your organisation you could save some money.

According to the Office for National Statistics for February of 2012, the unemployment rate was a staggering 8.3% of the economically active population. At this time, the average remuneration for an employee, across the private sector, was £430 per week. With more and more small companies going out of business in these hard economic times, it is important to keep a tight track on all costs for your company, and save money wherever possible.
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