5 More Things You Didn't Know Telephone Time Clocks Could Do

The name telephone time clock can actually be a bit misleading. This technology's main purpose is to allow your employees to verify the hours they've worked, to the minute … but in reality they can do so much more! Today we look at 5 more of the things that simple old employee time clocks by telephone can do, that you may not have known about!

1. Send you a no-show alert

You can have a text message alert sent instantly to your phone if an employee scheduled to clock in doesn't do so for a set period of time after their shift starts. Don't leave your business hanging indefinitely.

2. Send you check-in / check-out alerts

If you want to monitor things closely for a while, you can also choose to have text alerts sent to you for every clock-in or clock-out event on your telephone time clock system. That way, if somebody takes 15 minutes to clock out after their relief staff member arrives, you can question them immediately.

3. Account for different time ones

If you've delayed instituting a time attendance tracking system because you work across different time zones, and believed it wouldn't be able to handle that little niggle, think again. This is not a problem for modern telephone time clocks - employees always hear the correct time for their region.

4. Leave messages for your employees

You can leave messages for your employees and actually guarantee that everybody will hear the entire spiel at next clock-in! Simply set yourtime attendance tracking program so that clock-in can’t be completed until the entire message has been played back. If it's a long one, don't forget to set it so that your employees are listening on company time.

5. Track different activities
Your employees can actually enter different activity codes and almost fully automate your payroll process. This helps in your accounting, as well as in cost effectiveness reporting.