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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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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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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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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Should You Integrate Your Human Resource Software With Your Other Systems?

Many companies benefit highly from having one solutions for all of their business processes. Our Ceequel human resource software provides your company with the option to integrate your HR software with time and attendance, shop floor data capture and any other systems that manage your business processes. You have the option however to used our human resource management system by itself.

Many businesspeople find that they benefit greatly having a “one stop shop” solution for a variety of business processes. Using human resource software from Ceequel gives your company the opportunity to integrate your human resource software with your shop floor data capture system, your time and attendance system, and other systems that manage your business process software. However, you can also let your human resource software stand on its own – and some business owners prefer it this way.

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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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Using Software to Solve Common Problems with Shop Floor Data Capture

Having the ability to switch between tasks can often be a huge headache within manufacturing companies as it makes it almost impossible for the employer to track which of their employees is doing what task and for how long. Implementing a shop floor data capture system will allow you to track what your employees are up to at all times as well as help to solve the common problems that appear when workers often switch between tasks.

Technological advances and shifting market demands have made flexibility more important than ever before for manufacturers. Your employees’ ability to switch quickly from one task to another is an incredibly valuable feature of your company. However, this flexibility can be a double-edged sword. Keeping track of which employees are working on what projects, and for how long, can be a nightmarish task in the modern manufacturing shop. Fortunately, the right Shop Floor Data Capture technology can make it easy for you to solve a few of the most common problems that arise when employees must frequently switch tasks

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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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