Time & Attendance

Integrating Time & Attendance and Payroll  When companies consider implementing a time and attendance system, there are some common prerequisites in the buyer's checklist of features. Interestingly, many of the aspects of time and attendance that are most important to the end user are overlook, but that is the subject of another post. The three most common prerequisites of any time and attendance system under evaluation are A biometric reader on the time clock A simple system Integration with the current payroll system. Again, leaving the first two aside for other posts, we can explore the integration with payroll. Integration, at least as far as the end-user generally understands it, is an automatic process that transfers the time and attendance information into their payroll software without the cumbersome process of data entry of employees payroll hours. Here are the things that get in the way of this expectation. Direct integration with payroll ...

Time & Attendance and Return on Investment Working as an independent time and attendance consultant exposed me to a wide range of businesses and business owners. Different businesses can have different requirements, but there are some common objectives. Profit is, of course, the main objective of both privately and publicly owned business but in this regard, publicly owned businesses are somewhat conditioned by demands of the shareholders to focus on what is the best indicator of any investment - Return on Investment or ROI. It was this regard that John (a client of my earlier consulting business) struck an impasse. He looked at business systems simply based on cost rather than ROI, and it prevented him from implementing systems designed to save time and money. John had a contracting business that employed 200 staff. His employees were mostly remote workers, and wages were his major cost. He was concerned about employee time theft but also the cost of processing m...

  Time & Attendance Glossary Time and attendance , for the uninitiated, can be full of confusing jargon. When you are talking to time and attendance or payroll providers your understanding of the options and your supplier's proposal will be significantly enhanced if you are up to speed with the industry terminology. Here are the most comon terms you should know before discussing time clock or time and attendance systems.    The Time & Attendance Consultant