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…)

Employee time and attendance is an important concern whether your company is a small business with ten or less employees or a multinational with thousands of workers in locations spread across the globe. It also does not matter what industry you’re in – being able to track employee attendance accurately is critical to meeting regulatory requirements in regards to record keeping as well as ensuring that you keep your operating expenses to a minimum. (more…)

If your business’ office is like most, you probably have a relatively small number of employees, more than likely fifty or less. If yours is a typical office, you also probably still use a mechanical Bundy clock; while it’s served its purpose for decades, it is not an ideal tool for effective workforce management and it is high time that you made a change in how you deal with time and attendance. Rather than a mechanical time clock, it now makes far more sense to use an electronic Bundy clock and time and attendance software in order to increase the efficiency of your business, reduce labor costs and save your employees valuable time. (more…)

If there are two things that concern everyone who owns or manages a business, they are building security and workforce management, particularly in the area of employee time and attendance. They are both complex issues, but finding solutions to your company’s security and HR problems doesn’t have to be. In fact, this is one case where it is entirely possible to kill two birds with one stone and enjoy higher security while increasing the profitability of your firm – a true win-win situation if there ever was one. (more…)

Everyone who has to deal with payroll in the course of their work duties wishes it could be easier and definitely that it could be less time consuming. If your company is still using a Bundy clock or some other kind of mechanical employee time clock as its time and attendance solution, then it certainly could be less time consuming and labor intensive to put together your company’s weekly, bi-weekly or monthly payroll – and probably much, much easier than it is now.

In a lot of companies, payroll means doing a lot of manual data entry. Time cards have to be read, employee hours added up and calculated and then input into your company’s time and attendance software. No matter whether you use Quicken, QuickBooks, PeachTree or any other popular accounting package, the drudgery of data entry whenever you do payroll is the same. Not only is it a lot of work, it’s also a process which opens up many opportunities for errors to occur. (more…)

Human resources are the core of any business; after all, the most valuable asset that any company possesses is the pool of talent represented by its staff. As such, making sure that your business stays on top of the most essential piece of the human resources and workforce management puzzle is critical to the success of your company – and that piece is of course employee time and attendance.

A standard mechanical employee time clock, in many cases, just won’t cut it as far as keeping your business running efficiently goes. A Bundy clock and other older time clocks simply do not have the kind of accuracy that the modern business environment demands. Now, if you want to keep up with your competition, you need to keep in control of your labor costs, which means using an electronic employee time clock along with employee time and attendance software. (more…)

Access control is something which is an increasingly important concern for the owners and managers of businesses. Whether your company is a small sole proprietorship with only a handful of employees or an enormous multinational corporation with multiple locations and thousands of workers around the globe, security is something which you need to think about constantly.

One way to keep your business’ offices or other facilities secure is to implement an access control system using biometric technology, which can also be integrated with your company’s time and attendance software and employee time clock system. However, to make your corporate facilities especially safe from unwelcome visitors, the prying eyes of competitors and would-be identity thieves, it’s best to issue ID badges to employees and others who are authorized to be in your facilities. (more…)

Every business owner, just like every other individual on the planet, understands the importance of preserving the environment and doing their part to reduce the collective impact of humanity on the planet. As the owner or manager of a business, you’ve probably already taken some steps to make your business a little greener; from energy efficient computer monitors to LED lighting, there are a lot of small steps which you can take which not only help reduce the impact of your business on the environment but also save you money.

However, there is another thing which you can do to make your company greener while helping out your bottom line simultaneously; and it has to do with that old Bundy clock over there. While it may not seem like it at first, they go through a lot of paper in the form of punch cards; and if you’re using hand written time sheets instead of a mechanical punch clock, you’re wasting even more paper. You can eliminate this source of waste and save yourself money in more ways than one, starting by eliminating punch cards, time sheets and ink ribbons for mechanical employee time clocks from your budget. (more…)

Time and attendance is one of the most important aspects of any business; unless your business is a sole proprietorship or you’ve somehow managed to land an all-volunteer staff, then labor costs and more importantly, keeping track of labor costs is a vital concern for the health and future growth of your firm. How you track attendance and hours makes all the difference; and an old mechanical Bundy clock just doesn’t make the cut anymore.

Forward thinking business owners are abandoning the classic mechanical employee time clock in favor of biometric time clocks which can be integrated with the latest time and attendance software in order to accurately keep tabs on employee time and attendance. The new generation of electronic clocks which incorporate biometric technology provide performance and accuracy which no Bundy clock, no matter how well maintained, can compete with. (more…)

It’s a complaint which is if not exactly as old as time, definitely as old as contracting as a professional concept: overpaying contractors due to inefficient time tracking and management on the part of the contractor’s client. It may not be something that you spend a lot of time thinking about, but of course when the client in question happens to be your business, then it is a different kind of situation altogether. No one likes overpaying for the service they receive from a contractor – and as a business owner or manager, your job is to make sure that you keep your expenses to a minimum. (more…)