Time and Attendance Solutions

Get several people doing this, particularly if they are "trusted" employees, and the whole integrity of the system can be thrown into serious doubt, with many man hours spent trying to solve the problem. Furthermore, PC-based time and attendance systems, in themselves, cannot stop absenteeism. It is true that they make reporting absenteeism easier and patterns more visible, but those employees who "pull sickies" do not care whether they are using time sheets, time cards, swipe cards or have to place their hand in a biometric reader. Effective management is the only answer. There are thousands of small companies using basic (and calculating) card-based time recorders, who should not be condemned out of hand as being "pockets of resistance" to "high-end" biometric Time and Attendance Solutions.

In summary, I think it would be fair to say that there are places in the marketplace for all types of time and attendance product - basic time recorders, calculating card-based time recorders and time and attendance systems using other technologies - swipe card, proximity and biometric.First of all, it is obvious that standard time recorders do not help security, but then "high-end" biometric time and attendance products are not the ideal solution either. Biometrics may stop "buddy-punching" but biometric readers only confirm when one particular person was at one certain location and then for only the length of time it takes for the identification or verification to take place - a matter of a second or two at most - it does not tell management what that employee did or where they went before or after that time.