Whether you’re business has directly had a problem related to buddy clocking or you’ve been having problems accounting your quarterly payroll—you’re likely familiar with the term “buddy-punching.”

If you haven’t ever heard of buddy punching, it’s the practice of one employee clocking in or out for another worker to cover that person’s absence or tardiness at work. In fact, recent statistics indicate that nearly said 19% of staff engage in buddy-punching.

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While biometric technology has made its way into more and more business worldwide—many people still don’t understand exactly how the technology works to boost efficiency and drastically cut down on buddy clocking.

Biometrics consists of automated methods of recognizing a person based on unique physical characteristic. While, each type of biometric system can very in application—all still possess at least one similarity: The biometric must be based upon a distinguishable human attribute such as a person’s fingerprint, iris, voice pattern or even facial pattern.

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The traditional punch clock has seen its day and is now an archaic relic of the working sector from the days of old. Today time clock attendance has become much more advanced—much more sophisticated. With the rise of biometric technology, the need for more advanced tracking and time clock technology is greatly needed throughout the world. The reason is because traditional time clock machines simply aren’t an effective means for time keeping anymore. In a recent study, it was estimated that a number of large corporate businesses were loosing millions of dollars due to employees showing up late, leaving early, and ‘buddy clocking’.

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