Always on Time

The company I work for has started a new way for employees to clock in and out every day. It’s called the telephone time clock system and it works really great. Many of us are field agents and spend most of our days in meetings with clients or in training. It’s impossible for most of us to go into the office to actually clock in and then go about our daily appointments. We had been just keeping track of our hours but there is always some sort of disagreement by using this process. The new system has stopped all the disagreements and is much easier to deal with.

Every morning as I head out the door to begin my day I will call the number to clock in with the phone time clock system. When I am off the clock for lunch I simply just call the number again and it clocks me out. Again, when I’m done with lunch and heading to my next appointment, I simply call the number again and I’m clocked back into the system. It’s a very simple process and takes less than a minute to do.

The accountant that does payroll has found it to be so much less stressful than the old system we used. She is able to pull the logs for the time attendance tracking which tells her exactly how many hours each of us have worked for that period. She doesn’t have to do any figuring at all; it has daily totals which takes away the guess work involved. In the past many of us who would forget to actually write down our hours were always making guesses as to how many hours we worked; this way the guess work is out the window. I’ve really found this system to be a big improvement from the old way of clocking in and out.