Security is a concern for every business owner. You need to consider the physical security of your building, keeping your company information from competitors, preventing sensitive financial, customer, or vendor information from falling into the hands of data thieves, and one of the most common and in terms of real dollars and cents: time theft. Employee time theft has been a problem for employers for as long as attendance tracking systems have existed. However, modern time and attendance software now offers a solution for this, one of the most costly forms of theft which companies of all sizes have to contend with.

Upgrade Your Bundy Clocks

Bundy clocks and other older attendance systems are fine for the basics, but they are easy to fool. A punch clock, after all, has no idea who is punching in on whose time card, allowing employees to claim wages for hours not actually spent on the job. This is something you probably think of as one of those “a few bad apples” sort of problems, though a great many employees do engage in this form of misconduct when the opportunity arises. Like any crime of opportunity, the easiest way to eliminate time theft is to simply eliminate the opportunity and a biometric time clock along with time and attendance software removes any opportunity for staff to outwit the attendance system.

Biometric technologies also allow businesses to implement higher levels of security with ease. The same individual identification of employees which makes a biometric clock such a reliable means of tracking employee time and attendance them to double as a biometric access control system. This is a powerful tool against data theft; enterprising criminals will occasionally seek positions at companies in order to gain access to financial information – and they’re not likely to stay in your employment long enough to be granted access to sensitive areas.

Bottom Line

Similarly, a biometric access control system can serve as an effective deterrent to would-be burglars, who will take one look at the panel and decide to move on to an easier target. Biometrics provides more than reliable data which integrates with your time and attendance software for more control over labor costs and putting a stop to time theft. The advanced biometric systems now available to businesses provide added security in several ways; and in the wasted labor costs saved alone, a biometric employee time and attendance system and the time and attendance software they are designed to integrate with offer savings which pay for the system in a short time and over the life of the system can be incalculable.