4 Ways of Using Time and Attendance Software

How do you use time and attendance software? Or should I ask, how do use the data that it collects for you?

Usually, people implement time and attendance tracking to simplify the collection of data needed for payroll and organizational needs.

But except for the traditional ways of using such tool, there are some awesome ones that can make your company a better place to work and help achieve better results.

What are the other ways of using time and attendance software?

1) Find out which employees are engaged and which are not

By tracking time and attendance, you get a chance to see which employees sustainably leave work earlier and get to work later. Unless you have a flexible schedule or less than an 8-hour work day, then that is the problem.

Sure, employees might get to work later because of the heavy traffic, but that is more of an exception than a rule. Another reason for why employees are late is because they might feel disengaged and unhappy with their job.

When you don’t like what you do or the place you work, you will do anything possible in the morning to delay the moment of leaving the house. And once you’re at work you’ll leave earlier because the passion you had for your job is gone.

While these are not the only and major reasons for leaving early or being late, but you should definitely look out for them and re-engage the employees.

2) Automate the two most burdensome processes

Do you know how organizations used to track time and attendance in the 20th century? There were pieces of paper called timesheets or timecards. Some organizations are still using them, but they are mostly popular in manufacturing, where punching in and out is OK.

But it’s not OK for an office environment because there’s a lot of stuff going on in between punch in and out, which determines the productivity and success of the business.

That is why tracking time and attendance in the office is essential. Even though the idea sounds good, these two parameters are pretty difficult to track, so it can easily become a burden for the whole company.

Where there’s a demand, there’s an offer. So, time and attendance software started to emerge, helping companies collect data automatically.

The principle is simple: the software records computer activity of each employee, presenting the most important data — time of start and stop, total worked time, and attendance.

So, you get all you need with minimum hassle!

3) Determine and even out the workload

There always are employees who stay late at the office and those who have a plenty of free time. It is important to determine both because the former can burn out quickly and the latter gets paid for the free time.

You’ve already got the time data. What stands in your way to investigating how loaded your employees are? Nothing.

Make sure that the workload is even, and you will get things done, deadlines met and employees healthy.

4) Productivity improvement of each employee

Time and attendance software nowadays can do much more that just the standard things. Yaware.TimeTracker, for example, evaluates the productivity of employees’ work and then generated the reports both for managers and staff.

Employees get a chance to evaluate their productivity, see where the time goes and eliminate everything that makes them less productive. And because the success of the business depends on the productivity of each employee, using such tool your businesses is guaranteed to be prosperous.

I named just some of the ways that time and attendance software can be used. Care to try out one to see how you can benefit? If yes, share your experience in the comments.