Is your Manual Time Clock Stressing you Out? Switch to Automation and make your life Easier!

It’s no easy job to run a small business when you have limited capital and resources, and often have to wear too many hats in order to get by. The in-and-out-of-recession economy hasn’t been helping out lately, either. In such situations, it can be stressful to stay competitive, especially if you continue to try and get things done manually.

Take your payroll for instance. In order to ensure the accuracy of your employee work hours, you likely have to devote valuable time to personally supervise when employees punch in and out. Or, perhaps you may have delegated this responsibility to someone on your staff. Either way, it puts a strain on your resources, whether in terms of personal time or human capital. And if you are using a mechanical time clock system, your operating costs are vulnerable to malpractices such as wage fraud or time theft.

What can you do?

Automated employee time clocks with biometric technology have been empowering small and medium sized business owners to enjoy accurate, to-the-minute, yet highly cost-effective and simple payroll management. These time and attendance solutions are extremely easy to setup even for people with limited IT knowledge. The “Plug n Play” feature allows businesses to start tracking their employee work hours within a couple of hours of receiving and installing the device.

How is it Managed?

Once you have an automated, cloud-based time clock up and running, you can enroll your employees into the system by registering their fingerprints. These prints are converted into numerical images that are stored on a remote service provider’s database. Employees punch in and out at the start and end of their shifts by using their fingerprints, which are compared to the stored image templates for verification. Since employees cannot use someone else’s fingerprint, there is no possibility for buddy punching and less chance of wage fraud. This allows business owners the chance to breathe a sigh of relief.

In addition to eliminating wage fraud worries and reliance on human capital for payroll supervision, these systems also take care of labor-intensive tasks such as collecting and calculating employee work hour data. With employee time clocks, you have the option of automatically exporting employee time and attendance data into top payroll software programs. The integration between these two systems allows businesses to process payroll with just a few clicks of the mouse.

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Cloud Based Time Clocks – The best of Today’s Technology

Technology and automation have revolutionized our lives and have greatly impacted how we do things, especially at the workplace. Before automation, employee time and attendance had to be manually managed either by using the “honor system” or traditional Bundy time clocks.

The honor system means employees enter their work hours on a paper time sheet. In doing so, a business must trust that their employees are being honest about the time they worked. The whole process of recording employee time and attendance is often completed without any supervision, hence the name honor system. 

The Bundy clock method involves employees punching in with paper time cards using mechanical employee time clocks that print or stamp the time and date an employee punches in or out. In the majority of cases, there is also minimal supervision of this process.

As a result, both of these systems pose serious problems for businesses because employees can engage in practices such as time theft, proxy attendance, tardiness, and buddy punching.

Enter Cloud Based Time Clocks

Although the above-mentioned methods sound a bit primitive when you think how advanced today’s technology has become, there are numerous businesses that still use these time and attendance tracking methods. As you can well imagine, the end result is limiting these companies from being the best they can be. Businesses that have realized the shortcomings of manual time and attendance are quickly switching to automated, cloud based workforce management solutions such as those offered by uAttend.

Automated Employee Time Clocks from uAttend

uAttend time keeping solutions are exactly what a business should be using in today’s competitive business world. They are accurate, fast, easy to use and designed to increase profitability and productivity in the workplace. If you want to keep track of your workforce’s time, reign in your rising costs of payroll and overtime, and ensure that you only pay for the actual hours your employees have worked, switch to a uAttend time keeping clock today!

Want Increased Productivity? Use Time Attendance Software from uAttend

No matter how good a business is doing, there is always room for improvement. Whether it is improving revenues or employee productivity, the sky is the limit as far as an entrepreneur is concerned. Fortunately, today’s business owners can easily enhance both their productivity and profits by switching from manual payroll processing to an automated workforce management system such as time attendance software from uAttend.  

Why is Manual Time Keeping less Productive?

The problem of low productivity is not limited solely to time and attendance tracking. Any manual process is likely to result in lower productivity. Manually doing things the old fashioned way is tedious, slow, time consuming, problematic and prone to error. This especially applies to employee payroll management where the manual recording and calculating of employee work hours substantially hinders the process. In the absence of solutions like biometric time clock systems, employers have to collect each and every employee’s attendance data from paper spread sheets or time cards. Depending on how many employees you have, the collection of time cards alone can waste valuable work hours each pay cycle.

After collecting time cards, an employer then has to manually process employee work hours, physically calculating their salary, benefits, overtime, payroll taxes, vacation accruals, and other important payroll information. As one can imagine, this whole process - from recording work hours to running payroll - takes up a considerable amount of your human resources’ time. By implementing uAttend’s innovative time attendance software, this long process can literally be taken care of within minutes.

The uAttend™ Employee Management System offers better workforce monitoring solutions, and ensures the accurate tracking of your employees’ time. Online time tracking with biometric technology automatically improves productivity and makes sure your staff is aware of the fact that they are responsible for their time. Employers experience an immediate boost in employee productivity by instilling a higher level of accountability and workforce management. Biometric facial and fingerprint recognition, which cannot be manipulated or exchanged, ensures that you have the most accurate recording of your employee work hours, and directly benefits your bottom line.

Considering all these benefits, it’s easy to see that a uAttend biometric time clock is by far the most cost efficient and most effective solution for streamlining your time and attendance, as well as for increasing your employee productivity.