Archive for April 8th, 2009

T(ime) & A(ttendance) and Big Brother

April 8, 2009

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.     - Arnold H. Glasow, 1905 – 1998

T & A stands fors time and attendance tracking. It allows employers to easily compile actual worked time, record holidays, vacation, and other types of time by the employees and provides a much easier processing of the payroll. We are believers in the online clock.

Employees may become a bit skittish when an online clock is first set up. It may seem to them that their every moment is being followed; flexibility is no longer tolerated; trust is flushed and the special bond that may have existed between employer and employee is weakened.

Not true. One of the first recognitions by the employees of using a clock is fairness. In almost every organization, there are employees who arrive five to ten minutes early and maybe depart five to ten minutes late. And then there are employees who arrive five to ten minutes late and depart five to ten minutes early. In a system of time cards, both of these employees may have shown the same time. With a time clock their actual times are shown and recorded. Pretty soon, the online clock becomes just a part of the framework of doing one’s job – in the background and making the process of work just a little bit easier.

Online time keeping can make department and labor allocation much easier. It can help identify overtime situations that can then be stopped. It can provide supervisors a method to check who missed a punch from the previous day (it’s a lot easier to figure out what I was doing yesterday than what I was doing last week). It provides a long-term and easily retrievable history of hours worked. It’s one of the best things we ever did in house to ease the process of compilation of hours.

If you would like more information on time and attendance, feel free to contact us.

Cheers,

Bryan Dear

www.payrolldept.biz

How you pay makes a difference

April 8, 2009

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two. Lido Anthony Iacocca

The more indifference, the less we care. The good news: the less indifference the more we care. Caring is such a wonderful ingredient for a business to cultivate. And the first step for caring begins with how the employer treats their employees. An employer can have wonderful benefits, but if served without appreciation for the work their employee does, then a big message from employer to employee is communicated – we don’t really care.

There are a thousand different ways to show appreciation and it’s probably difficult to over-appreciate. One little appreciation based on my travels. I remember in my six weeks spent visiting my sister in what was then called the country of Zaire. When we paid for our food, we would hold onto the bills – whether it be one or several) with both hands as we passed it over the counter to indicate our appreciation for the transaction. Similarly, consider a thank you when handing your employee a check or direct deposit voucher. It’s a small touch of appreciation – but small touches add up to something special.

And if you go to the dark side that it’s the employee that should be doing the thanking, tread carefully. Your employees are probably not feeling appreciated and their loyalty to you may run just a little thin.

Thank you for reading,

Bryan Dear

www.payrolldept.biz


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