If you’ve already purchased and deployed an electronic or biometric time clock at your firm, then you have plenty of cause to pat yourself on the back. These clocks are simply a more efficient, more accurate and easier to work with than are other types of time and attendance systems. You already know that your firm is saving a bundle as a result of upgrading to this new clock; but there are actually ways that your clock could be saving you even more money and being even more useful to your company. A wide variety of accessories are available for your time clock, whether you have just a clock or you’ve combined it with a powerful biometricaccess control system. (more…)

If your company is using more than one time clock, you may be wasting company time, employee man hours and most importantly of all, money. Even though it’s a pretty common occurrence to have multiple time clocks in use in one building, especially if it’s a larger, multi-department operation, there are now more sophisticated ways of handling your corporate facility’s time and attendance needs.

Rather than having several Bundy clocks scattered throughout the building, perhaps with a different one for each department, you can now do the work of many clocks with a single modern electronic clock. In fact, you can install just one biometric clock at the main entrance (or another entrance if your staff don’t customarily use the main entrance). By choosing a new electronic time clock, you’ll be doing more than streamlining your company time and attendance system; you’ll be adding functionality to this system which your old punch clock (or even a dozen of them) can’t match. (more…)

Let’s just get one thing out of the way here right from the beginning. With very few exceptions, a Bundy clock isn’t the kind of time and attendance system that businesses need to keep current and remain competitive as their business rivals continue to modernize their operations. Certainly, if your company has only a handful of long term, trusted employees then one of these punch clocks may be perfectly fine. However, for every other business (as in, just about all businesses), a more advanced kind of time clock is in order instead of these older attendance systems.

Of course, even if you know that there are alternatives out there which are better than a punch clock, you may not know what these options are or how they work – or even how exactly they can benefit your business. There are a few different kinds of electronic clocks for you to choose from and depending on the type of business you’re in and the way that your company currently takes care of employee time and attendance, different models will be more or less suitable for your needs. (more…)

The benefits of switching from a mechanical punch clock to a modern time clock, especially one which incorporates biometric access control technology are many.

They allow business owners and managers to streamline their payroll procedures and to easily identify trends in employee time and attendance which help them to adapt to changing conditions quickly, improving their overall efficiency. These advanced time clocks work along with powerful attendance software which make administering this area of business operations a snap. (more…)

Really, if your old punch clock is still working, should you replace it with a new biometric time clock? Is it that important? For that matter, what’s the difference between an older Bundy clock and the new electronic and biometric time and attendance products out there? There are businesses still using punch clocks with no apparent ill effect but of course there is also a rapidly growing number of companies adopting these new attendance technologies and as you can imagine, there must be a reason for it.

There are differences between the time clock models out there and once you know more about them and how they can provide your business with an edge over rivals who haven’t yet upgraded their time clocks you’ll certainly want to start thinking about making the switch yourself. Keep reading for a quick rundown of some of your time and attendance options. (more…)

There are a lot of challenges which are unique to the construction industry and if you’re in this business yourself, there’s no reason to tell you about all of the many things which you have to think about daily. However, we are here to talk about one of the problems which construction businesses face: accurate time and attendance tracking for the job site.

Obviously, you’re not going to bring a Bundy clock along with you to a construction site, but it is important to make sure that you receive accurate and reliable data on the time worked by both your own employees on the site as well as (and many would say, even more importantly) the time spent by contractors you’re working with on a job. (more…)

If you already have a biometric time clock, then you already know about the many benefits that these clocks have to offer your company compared to less modern options like a conventional punch clock and time cards. While you’re already well aware of how much that your company can save both in financial terms and in employee hours, there are ways that you can turn these sophisticated clocks into an even better time and attendance system than they are at present.

There are a lot of different accessories available for biometric clocks and biometric access control systems (and your company may even be using a dual-purpose biometric system such as this) which can make your time clock an even bigger improvement over your old Bundy clock. (more…)

If you’ve decided to get rid of your old Bundy clock and stop buying all of those time cards and ribbons for what is (let’s face it) a time and attendance system which is out of date and getting more so by the day, congratulations on making the right choice. Upgrading to a modern time clock which offers features and a level of accuracy which your old mechanical clock just can’t hold a candle to is one of the best things you can do to lower your firm’s overhead. Better still, it’s also one of the easiest and is surprisingly affordable, no matter whether your company is a very small local business or a huge multinational corporation. (more…)

Does your office, warehouse or manufacturing facility have more than one time clock? If yours is a larger facility, it’s not an uncommon thing to have several different clocks installed throughout the building.

It’s a means of managing the company’s time and attendance tracking needs when a business has a large number of employees; and in many cases, different departments within a single facility will have their own time clocks.

While it may have seemed like a great idea to break attendance tracking down into manageable pieces this way at one time and indeed it may be a good way to go if your company is still using Bundy clocks, there is a better way to do things now. (more…)

For those of you reading this who happen to be the owners of managers of larger companies, what follows probably isn’t going to be news to you. However, there are a lot of smaller businesses out there as well as startups small and mid-sized alike whose senior personnel are as yet unaware of one very important  legal requirement relating to employee time and attendance. All employers in Australia are required to maintain records of employee attendance for those workers who earn under $55,000 base salary annually (even if overtime pay puts these employees over this amount of earnings for the year). (more…)