How Efficient is Your Time Tracking Process?
Time and attendance can be an issue for many businesses. No matter the size of the company, there are always discrepancies to be found in employees’ hours. One way to help streamline your efforts is by implementing a time and attendance system.
Time and attendance options come in all shapes and sizes. They range from simple card swiping systems to biometric reading systems. It all depends on the security level and how many employees you have.
Mobile Option
There are now mobile time clock software solutions for those businesses that have many employees out in the field. BlackBerry has a GPS enabled application called SmartServices Solution Suite. SmartServices Solution Suite allows your employees to record, “the exact number of hours recorded by the system. For employees login and logout as per their work schedule and personal work, only the number of hours put in by employees will be accounted for by the system. “
Since we are all human and make errors, this is a great way for field workers to stay up to date on their hours and streamline the process to your phone.
Smart Cards
Smart cards are also a great way for businesses to keep track of their employees. Smart cards can have other information such as employee expense accounts stored on them. Tensor WinTA Time Management system for example, has actually started manufacturing smart keyfobs.
A hospital that has already implemented these keyfobs says that, “Having an electronic system that, once the rules are put in, will work across all functions is particularly good”.
Although these are just two of many options for time and attendance software and hardware options, keep in mind the options seem to be endless. Many systems can be implemented for very little cost, and some Internet based systems can be started right away.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:57 pm
FreshBooks has a great time tracking system with a lot of add-ons available to make it more convenient. If someone were looking for one to try out, I would recommend their service.
April 1st, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Yes! Freshbooks is great. I use it as well and it saves me a lot of time.
April 6th, 2010 at 4:58 am
FreshBooks is a great time tracking software that can really help a lot of busy people. I have been using this application and it really helps.
April 12th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Galaxy Technologies, Inc. offers time and attendance, human resources, and payroll solutions with the convenience and flexibility of a web-based system that will help to automate manual processes saving time and money.
April 13th, 2010 at 9:08 am
Labor laws require employees to be paid for hours worked and to have breaks at specific intervals. There are the employees who punch in and out perfectly on time each and every shift. Some of them waste time standing around unproductively at the time clock waiting for the precise time. They look good on paper, but they are actually cheating the company of productive time that ends up adding up by the end of the week.
September 16th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
A fantastic software program for tracking your time is http://www.timedoctor.com/1 as it tracks all time use for yourself and a team effortlessly.
September 18th, 2010 at 7:58 am
To keep track of your hours worked and at the same time manage a remote team for recording hours worked
http://bit.ly/bJwmma is a easy to use software as it will give you an update on your teams daily accomplishments and what each of your team members will be targeting next to accomplish.
September 21st, 2010 at 6:46 am
I’ve always imagined that a fob / smartcard timesheeting system would be fairly expensive to have installed and supported. I would be interested in knowing the true cost of something like that. There are also free alternatives like 1DayLater ( http://1daylater.com ) which tracks time, expenses and mileage. These become useful when employees get into the habit of using the system regularly.
January 19th, 2011 at 12:49 pm
There is a category of online time tracking software that might help to track time more accurately. They capture the samples of your screen shot along with other activities, then send them to the server. The server will consolidate them and account the time that is spent on the work. I found them more accurate than the self-reporting time tracking solutions.
Examples —
http://www.worksnaps.net
http://www.tahometer.com
March 13th, 2011 at 8:58 am
I need to mention free online time tracker MrTickTock available at http://mrticktock.com (disclaimer: I’m an author). It is simple, fast and secure web based system to track employee time – good choice for freelancers and small companies.
MrTickTock is being actively developed so you can expect several new features (including vacation tracking) and improved UX in the nearest future.
August 23rd, 2012 at 10:55 am
These are some great ideas. I know it can be hard to keep track of all of your employees but these options give you some control. Another good expense tracking software you can find here: http://www.ghg.com/products/products-overview/. It is reasonably priced and is easy to use. Thanks for posting!
September 12th, 2012 at 3:29 am
I use Timetrack - http://www.timetrack.eu. It’s a very simple in use desktop tool, but there is also available a version for mobile devices. It’s for free for less than 10 projects