If you own or manage a medium or large business, there are a lot of good reasons to use ID badges as part of your workforce management (as well as visitor management) system. There is the obvious benefit of better security; if you have a large staff, it can be difficult to keep tabs on who is and is not supposed to be present at your offices or plant. Issuing individual ID badges to your employees makes it easy to see at a glance who’s supposed to be where – and even if you don’t have a huge staff, there are a number of other benefits to having an ID printer at your company’s facilities along with just knowing who’s who.

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Workforce management is one of the most important duties of any manager or business owner. It helps you to allocate your resources more effectively, ensure that all of the systems that you have in place to help run your business are more efficient and overall saves you money by letting you focus on driving your company forward. There are a lot of different ways to improve your company’s workforce management processes, though perhaps the most important of these is to ensure that your time and attendance systems are as efficient as possible.

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Businesses who are mindful of their overhead probably know by now that a Bundy clock just can’t cut it in an era where there are electronic time clocks and easy to use time and attendance software on the market. These newer workforce management tools have made it easy to ensure that employee time and attendance records are accurate, easy to access and comply with the latest government regulations covering employer record keeping. (more…)

If you follow technology news at all, you’ve probably heard some talk about something called cloud computing or software as a service (SaaS). In case you’re unfamiliar with what these terms mean, they refer to software which is accessible via the web using a web browser rather than being installed on individual workstations or a server at your company’s facilities. These online software systems provide businesses with a great deal of flexibility, since they can be accessed on any computer with an internet connection rather than being tied to a single computer at a single location. (more…)

Although access management may not be the most important concern of every business owner, efficient workforce management and attendance tracking most certainly are. Regardless of the industry you’re in or the size of your company, it’s important to make sure that you keep track of employee time and attendance in an accurate and accountable way to reduce your operating expenses. As it happens, there is an easy way to take care of both security and attendance at the same time – the answer is to eliminate your Bundy clock and use an electronic time clock in conjunction with time and attendance software and individually assigned staff ID cards for your employees. (more…)

We’re all familiar with the Bundy clock. This time and attendance system has been with us for generations and while one may be tempted to stick with what has been a more or less reliable style of time clock for such a long time, there are now clocks which improve upon the classic mechanical clock and time card system of attendance tracking. Just like we don’t use old fashioned adding machines in our office accounting departments (not most of us, anyway), it just makes good sense to keep up with the times, especially when doing so can save your firm money.

There’s a better class of Bundy clock available to your business; one with a great many features which your old time clock can’t offer you. These new electronic models are much more accurate than their mechanical counterparts, as well as providing your business with the kind of accountability and traceability which you’ll never find in a mechanical Bundy clock. (more…)

If you own or manage a medium sized to larger business, you may already be aware of the latest regulatory requirements. Of course, there are also many people out there who are running businesses who aren’t up to date on one very important regulation which has to do with the area of employee time and attendance.

In case you weren’t aware of this fact, every Australian employer (or foreign company which employs people in the nation of Australia) must maintain employee attendance records for every member of their staff who is paid less than $55,000 per year as their base salary. Even if these employees actually earn more than this amount in a calendar year due to bonuses or overtime pay, these records must be maintained. (more…)

Abandoning your old Bundy clock or other mechanical time and attendance system for an electronic CS time clock gives your firm access to a number of benefits. You’ll be able to enjoy a much faster and easier attendance tracking and a greatly streamlined payroll procedure – this alone is a significant source of savings for many of the companies which adopt them. You can also use them with advanced attendance software which makes generating detailed reports on employee hours and absenteeism as well as the ability to monitor your staff’s attendance remotely, among many other features these modern time clocks offer. (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…)

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…)