Monday, May 17, 2010

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

You might be aware of the concept of telephone time clocking - the technology has the potential to benefit a huge range of businesses, yet is chronically underutilized! When we speak to many employers who finally ge fed up with time card padding and institute an employee time attendance tracking system, many of them say that if they'd known what telephone time clocks could do, they would have put one in years ago. So today we look at five of the things that you probably didn’t know telephone time clocks could do … apart from save quite a bit of money!
1. Usable with mobile web devices
Even if you’re on the road just as much as your employees, you can still ensure that everything is going to plan, and work is being done during work hours. Most good telephone time clocks have a dedicated mobile web version, making it easy to check on your employees from wherever you are.
2. Phones are caller-ID stamped
Even if you aren’t there to check on your employee's arrival times, you can ensure they are on site because telephone time clocks allow for recording of the caller ID of the phone. Some telephone time clock models won’t even allow an employee to sign in if it isn't done from an approved phone.
3. Automatic voice verification is available
Did you know a person's voice is as unique as their fingerprint? Voice recognition software can ensure the correct person is clocking in - no chance of a friend or workmate clocking in for a late employee.
4. Personal voice verification also available
You can also choose to record a message when your employee clocks in by voice, and personally verify that it is their voice on the other end of the line.
5. Calculation of overtime
You can actually see overtime occurring before it happens if you use a telephone time attendance tracking system. Overtime gets expensive, and if your employee tells you that they 'simply needed to finish a job before they could leave', there is little you can do after the fact. However, when you see overtime in progress, all it takes is a polite call to the employee to let them know that whatever they are working on can wait until tomorrow to avoid massive paychecks denting the budget.

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