Managing Your Employee Absence Tracking

by Lakshmi Kadam IT

How do you manage your organization's time-off and absence? Adopting a tracking method based on automation, visibility and intuitive self-service are keys to ensuring success. In order to better track and report on time-off requests, balances and accruals in real-time, an automated and cloud-based solution is recommended.

With cloud-based time management software you can easily:

Automate rules and calculations in order to establish a consistent language of absence functions across your organization.
Seamlessly and accurately interact with a payroll tool to manage payroll-related leaves.
Provide an intuitive and easy-to-use self-service interface for employees so they can easily review time–off.

Therefore, attendance software sets the standard in processing and gathering the accurate results of absence information via an easy-to-use and intuitive interface. It also helps administrators in delivering reports and to easily track employee population on various leave types.

Since the software is designed to be flexible, it doesn’t matter how complex your working patterns are. In other words, it’s suited for any size or structure of organization that is looking for better workforce control.

Understanding your employee workforce

It’s not just about tracking your employees’ whereabouts, it’s also about making certain - once you have your data - it makes sense to you.

A good time and attendance software should include the following features:

Unlimited shifts, rosters, access profiles and working patterns
Flexible working/flexitime
Full absence management and attendance analysis
Leave entitlements and leave planning
Real-time and graphical attendance monitoring
Shop floor/job costing
Project planning and costing
Access control management
Software or hardware-based employee registrations
Project time and cost management, planning and analysis

Why do companies use time and attendance software?

There are several key reasons for businesses to adopt automated software:

Costs

Many businesses have embraced the technology of attendance tracking software because it helps reduce labor costs by ensuring that there aren’t any unnecessary expenses. When employees arrive late, they cost the company money. One of the most important uses of time and attendance software is that it helps track employees’ time to make the employees accountable for accurate wages earned.

Productivity Goals

Tracking productivity goals is another key benefit for any manufacturing or service organization. Business organizations that are particular about achieving their production goals by the set deadline depend heavily on time and attendance software.