Curbing Nonchalant Time Stealing the TimeTec Cloud Way
Honesty is apparently not
the best policy, definitely not in the working world because often times,
human resources department has to deal with dishonest employees with regards to time attendance and medical leaves causing company a lot of money. For an employee,
so what if he asked other fellow colleague to clock in for him and he'll show up an
hour later? Nobody will even notice that he's missing in that short hour. So,
what if he clocked in earlier and clocked out later than scheduled? When an
appointment with a client outside of the office is at 11, just inform the office that the
meeting is at 10 and go straight from home around 10 instead of checking into
the office first. Who’s going to check on you?
Time Stealing is Harmless?
And the worrying part is, majority employees who commit this act do not feel remotely guilty of doing such thievery because there’s no negative impact on their lives whatsoever. What's it to the company if they have to fork out some extra dollars? It's not going to hurt anybody, is it? In business, each minute equals to dollars and cents and a company must remember that one extra hour a day makes a cheating employee slightly richer on payday. Multiply that to x number of employee, the damage is pretty apparent, isn't it?
Time Stealing is Harmless?
And the worrying part is, majority employees who commit this act do not feel remotely guilty of doing such thievery because there’s no negative impact on their lives whatsoever. What's it to the company if they have to fork out some extra dollars? It's not going to hurt anybody, is it? In business, each minute equals to dollars and cents and a company must remember that one extra hour a day makes a cheating employee slightly richer on payday. Multiply that to x number of employee, the damage is pretty apparent, isn't it?
Another open secret of the
working world is that, the best days to call in sick are Mondays and Fridays,
and employers know that employee will think of a way to prove their illness.
Companies suffer losing money on absent employees on top of having to spend a
lot more on medical claims entitled to employees. It’s reported recently that
Malaysian employers lose RM2.9billion equivalent to almost USD1 billion in a
year to workers replacing employees on medical leave. Absence employees, late
employees, undisciplined employees cost company more money than it should be,
and solutions are being offered to curb this never ending quandary.
Basically the problem is, employees
do not view stealing time or faking sickness as iniquitous. The challenge of an
employer is to justify them wrong.
Achieving Fairness
Not to say that companies needs
to be anal (this word comes from "anal retentive", a term from Freudian psychoanalysis) about time attendance and
medical leaves entitlement on employees, believe me that tight surveillance
on employees is not the objective (well,
maybe to some crazy control freak bosses out there and my heart goes to their employees).
Companies simply want to find solutions to justify the money that goes into their
operation cost, as human capital is indeed expensive and growing annually! To pay
employees on the actual time they work and to deduct on those time they don’t,
is pretty fair for everybody. Arguments go back and forth that time is not the
only factor that determines one company’s performance. What an employee puts
into the job is much more important than the time they put in the job, some
argues. Yet, why can’t a company have the cake and eat it too? Is it too much
to ask for good disciplined employees?
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Time keeping has always been the device to check on honesty |
TimeTec Cloud, A Winning Solution!
Solution like TimeTec Cloud by FingerTec is designed to provide a win-win solution for both parties; employers and employee. Pair the solution with biometrics authentication readers, consumers are offered with a wholesome remedy to dishonesty problem. With three possible verification options, biometrics readers, web punch and mobile app, TimeTec Cloud is offering more than mere time attendance. With biometrics readers, honesty is prioritized, as you can’t simply switch bodies or buddy punch to prove your presence. Web-punch provides an economical option to a convenient solution and TimeTec mobile attaches location tags, suitable for employees who are on the go. Nothing is lost in translation so to speak.
Solution like TimeTec Cloud by FingerTec is designed to provide a win-win solution for both parties; employers and employee. Pair the solution with biometrics authentication readers, consumers are offered with a wholesome remedy to dishonesty problem. With three possible verification options, biometrics readers, web punch and mobile app, TimeTec Cloud is offering more than mere time attendance. With biometrics readers, honesty is prioritized, as you can’t simply switch bodies or buddy punch to prove your presence. Web-punch provides an economical option to a convenient solution and TimeTec mobile attaches location tags, suitable for employees who are on the go. Nothing is lost in translation so to speak.
More importantly, TimeTec
Cloud provides all kinds of reports to justify the cost and investment to the
management. With a whopping 26 configured reports that include details movement
analysis, daily electronic card, on leave report, tardiness report and many
more, employer could identify the problematic areas and fix them as necessary.
Not only the company is getting the big picture of cost per head, at the same
time they know in great details about employee’s activities. Not to be a
stalker but ultimately finding solutions and improvements to better the company. This solution
also offers employees an option to view their performance online. With
transparency to employees and employer, everybody wins.
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Reports available in TimeTec Cloud |
Deployment of subtle
control using a simple and affordable solution like TimeTec Cloud, employers
are well informed about the human resources situations more clearly. Hence,
they can tweak wherever necessary.
As a wise man once said,
time waits for no man; why not at least have a solution that knows which time
goes to which man?
*TimeTec Cloud is now having a promotion where, when you signed up before
14 March 2014, subscription is FREE for one whole year. Grab the opportunity now and
find out the many exciting and useful features of TimeTec Cloud.
By Norana Johar, COO, FingerTec HQ
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