Friday 28 June 2013

Having Trouble Managing Your Payroll? Biometric Time Clock Systems From uAttend Can Help!

Are you a small business owner with too much on your plate? Do you face difficulties trying to run a smooth operation? Have you found that you wear too many hats and take on more responsibilities than you can handle? Lastly - are you manually processing your business’ payroll?

If the answers to any or all of the above are yes, it might be time to consider automated technology to help lessen your load. Biometric time clock systems from uAttend can help end the dilemmas noted above, and enable you to focus on growing your business instead of worrying about day-to-day operations.

How Does Manual Payroll Processing Obstruct Business Growth?

Well, first of all, manual time and attendance tracking lacks transparency and accuracy. Whether it is a pen and paper timesheet or a card punching mechanical clock, there are many loopholes in the way employees’ time is recorded and managed. Manual processes often tempt employees to resort to unethical practices such as time theft, tardiness, buddy punching and falsifying their time records. All of which can be avoided by simply implementing web based time tracking software systems from uAttend. In the absence of such robust systems, employees can continually steal from your business resulting in soaring payroll costs.

In addition to the time theft factor, it is also extremely time consuming and tedious to manually record employee time and attendance. Once time is marked, your HR department has to transfer the work hour data and then prepare and process payroll. Don’t forget to take into account the inevitable chance of human error. And if that’s not enough, there are many other challenges such as employees turning in their time cards late and the subsequent delay in paying employee wages.

At times, employers take it upon themselves to combat such problems by involving themselves in administrative affairs and supervision. This, however, results in slowed business growth. Small business owners now have the option of utilizing automated workforce solutions that take care of the tedious aspects of time and attendance management and payroll.

Biometric time clock systems from uAttend enable employers to accurately track employee work hours without the need of human supervision. Biometric enabled systems ensure that employees cannot easily engage in wage fraud activities. Best yet, HR executives can run and export employee reports directly into their payroll system and process their payroll with just a few clicks of the mouse.

Sound like something you’d like? Learn more about uAttend’s web based time tracking software systems by visiting uAttend.com.

Tuesday 18 June 2013

Web Time Clocks – Providing Unlimited Options for Small and Medium Sized Businesses

The significance of paying your employees correctly has never been more important than it is today. Most employers would agree that it is not in their best interest to pay more than is owed to their employees. However, when considering the current wave of wage and work hour violation claims and lawsuits, you also want to make sure that your employees are not being shortchanged (even accidentally). Web time clocks can play a crucial role in ensuing that your employees are paid the exact amount of wages for their time, nothing more and nothing less!

Web-based time keeping solutions especially come in handy for small and medium-sized businesses with a mobile workforce. In-house time and attendance solutions are only good for - yes, you guessed it – the on-premise monitoring and recording of employee work hours. If your employees work remote from off-site offices or customer locations, in-house systems are an inefficient, ineffective and inconvenient solution because employees must always stop in the office to punch in and out. Workforce management solutions, such as time tracking software from uAttend, are cloud based and provide a much more convenient and user-friendly solution for a mobile workforce. For example, rather than punch in first at the office only to drive 30 miles the other way to work at a customer location, employees can head directly to their work location and punch in once they’ve arrived.

The Ease of Cloud-Based Connectivity

On-premise time tracking solutions are no match for cloud based systems when it comes to connectivity and universal access. With cloud computing, employees have a number of punch-in options for recording their time and attendance. These include using the actual clock device, as well as punching in with a telephone, web-browser or Smartphone/mobile application. As of right now, uAttend offers Apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android users.

With uAttend’s mobile App, employees can easily punch-in and out from pre-designated Geo-hot spots with the help of GPS tracking. This not only ensures that your employees are getting paid for their exact time working, but is also invaluable when it comes to billing your customers more accurately. Not to mention it makes employees’ lives simpler and more convenient, which improves employee morale and performance. In addition, web time clocks create time and attendance records that can help in maintaining FLSA compliance and serve as indisputable documentation in the case of any wage claims or violations.

While effective in their own way, on-premise time and attendance systems can be expensive to purchase, can take a long time to implement, and often involve annual licensing fees. In comparison, time tracking software like that offered from uAttend is easy to implement, simple to operate, and extremely cost-effective. Plus, it provides universal access allowing employers and employees to access the system from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection!  

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