Concerned About Employee Time and Attendance Tracking

What do you do to track employee time and attendance: a program, old-fashioned time cards or just a yellow legal pad and a pen? No matter what you use, do you really take the time to study the results and consider whether you’re losing money due to inefficiency? Do you calculate how much money you may be losing just in one month?

It may be time to think more strategically. Automated employee time and attendance systems aren’t a guarantee of perfect efficiency, but they’re a start.

If your employees are still filling out cards, it could be costing your business a lot more than just the cards themselves. Are you wondering if a new system might be expensive? Just think about how much a system could save you, and you might be surprised at how quickly it can pay for itself. Meanwhile, no matter what method you use, consider the following headaches you may be giving yourself:

• Headache #1: Too much Time is spent by supervisors approving time sheets. Is there a way to create a more automated system?
• Headache #2: Employees who don’t always write down their true time worked. How can you fix this?
• Headache #3: Hand-keying issues that lead to errors and fraud. Again, automation may be the key.
• Headache #4: Managing overtime. How can you keep employees from going into overtime hours before you even know about it?
• Headache #5: Perhaps the worst of all, exposure from an audit or employee complaint.

A better scenario evolves when you convert to an automated employee time and attendance management system and learn how to interpret the data. Consider the benefits:

• Classifications, labor contracts and policies are automatically applied when processing each employee’s paycheck.
• Easier determination of benefit eligibility under the Affordable Care Act.
• You’ll pay employees for their actual amount worked, avoiding lawsuits and back wages.
• Payroll errors from manual data entry are virtually eliminated.

How much less stressful would it be to run your business knowing that you are not only saving a considerable amount of money by automating, but you are also protecting your assets from potential employee lawsuits and maybe, even worse, an IRS audit? Give us a call. We’ll show you how to choose the right system for your particular needs and how easy it is to integrate that new system into your business.

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