Time marches on, as they say – throughout the work week and throughout each day, the hands of the clock move on relentlessly. Or do they?

If your firm is using an older, unaccountable time and attendance tracking system, you may find that time can play tricks on you and on your bottom line. What do we mean by this exactly? Older systems such as the venerable analog punch card system are far too easy to fool, unlike a modern biometric employee time and attendance solution which makes time theft impossible.

New and innovative biometric time clocks and sophisticated time and attendance software now make it easy to accurately keep track of employee attendance. Using these biometric employee time and attendance systems, the records you have of time worked by a given employee actually reflect time spent on the job to the minute. It’s a level of accuracy, reliability and accountability which simply is not possible with the use of older attendance systems.

Modern Biometric Time keeping

A modern biometric system is also far easier to administer, saving valuable employee hours – which to you as a business owner  translates to one beautiful little word: money. These new and improved biometric attendance systems and time and attendance software mean that your payroll and human resources departments can get more done in less time, allowing them to spend more time in other tasks. You’ll also find that the bookkeeping staff at your company will have higher morale when they can occupy less time with these important but often tedious duties – and happier employees, as we all know are more productive employees.

Prevent Theft With Biometric Technology

Time theft is a serious issue for employers, accounting for many millions of dollars in losses each year; and it’s entirely preventable with the use of a biometric employee time and attendance system. Time theft is a crime of opportunity which even the most well meaning of employees may engage in from time to time – even an entirely innocent mistake could mean that your firm ends up paying for time not spent engaged in work! You don’t have to have even a few bad apples in your firm’s barrel for time theft to be a problem.

An employee time and attendance system which is unaccountable and traceable always leaves some room for doubt; and a system which doesn’t use time and attendance software leaves a lot of room for human error to creep in. Data entry errors can and do happen – and these can cost your firm money, lead to paychecks which are inaccurately calculated and leave your employees with the short end of the stick as well. Remember what we were saying about employee morale? It works both ways, you’ll find.

If your company is still using an antiquated punch clock, it’s time to make the switch to a biometric employee time and attendance system. It can be set up in as little as an hour, has an extremely low learning curve for personnel and of course, can save your firm a great deal of money over the long run.