Manage Staff From Your Smartphone or Mobile Tablet

Gone are the days of running a business from your office or desk. These days, small business owners and managers find themselves out and about and on the go, often traveling to multiple locations to interact with their employees. This is exactly why uAttend offers the flexibility and convenience of mobile time and attendance management. uAttend’s cloud-based employee time tracking solutions eliminate the traditional way of monitoring staff activity. While our online time and attendance system offers a variety of ways for employees to punch in and out (e.g., biometric time clocks, RFID readers, web browser software, cell phones and mobile apps), it also provides extremely useful and cost-effective features for management. This post takes a quick look at two important pieces of mobile employee time management and how it is changing the game for businesses that need to manage on the go.

Saving Time Saves You Money

As any employer knows, time impacts every single aspect of business – from the second you open your doors to the amount of hours your employees work on a weekly basis. As a busy manager, your time is precious and how you manage your employees’ time can determine your growth and success. Suffice to say that time needs to properly managed, which is exactly what uAttend’s time and attendance system helps you do.

uAttend simplifies and streamlines employee time management processes by leveraging the cloud. While cloud-based attendance tracking systems are beneficial for any company, they are especially useful for small businesses that are often not in the position to purchase large servers to track employee work hours, and whose owners have limited time because they are busy running around wearing multiple hats. Through cloud computing, employers can view, access, monitor and process employee work hours from their mobile tablet or Smartphone. They can do so at anytime and from anywhere as long as they have Internet. This means you no longer have to be sitting at a desk to process payroll, or be in your office to see who is currently at work. By using the cloud, employee attendance monitoring and managing is no longer tied to a computer, which ultimately helps reduce labor costs. This is just one way that innovative solutions like uAttend save businesses time and money.

Backup Plan

Another benefit of leveraging the cloud is having a built-in back up plan when it comes to your employee work hour data. With so much of your business relying on technology, there is always a threat of encountering technical issues. You’ve likely heard stories about technology’s potential downfalls whether it’s a server crashing or someone hacking into a system. If you are always on the go and don’t have the right methods in place, your business might even be more vulnerable to such issues. A web-based time tracking system can actually help prevent problems and lessen your security concerns. This is because cloud service providers have their own highly sophisticated systems in place to keep your data protected, backed up and available 24/7. Say for example that the power goes out at your place of work. If your data is stored off-site (i.e., in the cloud), there is no fear about losing your information due to the local power outage and it is still accessible while your power gets back up and running. Your data is also protected in the case of a natural disaster (e.g., hurricane, tornado, flood, etc.) or even a burglary. In addition, the stored data is encrypted and secure making it difficult for any non-authorized persons to wrongfully get a hold of it. 

As you can see, a web-based, biometric time and attendance tracking system affords some pretty incredible opportunities for business owners who are constantly on the go.  With the added savings and convenience of monitoring and managing your workforce through mobile technology, the system is by far one of the most cost-effective investments a small business can make. If you’d like to learn more, visit our corporate website at www.uAttend.com.