Pay, Performance and Telephone Time Clocks

Many managers assume that performance-based pay systems will be too difficult to implement. Some assume that they will sap employee motivation, while others aren't sure that employees will maintain the same standard of work if they are given incentives to push through 'more' product. However, the experience of many different companies tells us that performance-based pay systems are actually highly effective at getting employees motivated to do a good job, and keeping them that way! Today we check out how performance based pay systems can tie in with initiatives like telephone-based employee time clocks and time attendance tracking, to create a positive change in your business bottom line!

Pay for performance: A growing phenomenon

In the few years prior to 2008, a study found that while standard employee pay had risen only marginally in comparison to inflation, bonuses based on performance had hit a record high of 12% of the entire country's payroll figure. Given the massive number of businesses that haven't even considered performance-based pay, it seems that there are some companies out there paying quite a lot of profits directly back to employees.

There is a big 'But!' attached to that statement, though. Structured properly, performance-based pay systems don't cost a company extra. They simply ensure that the workers that are contributing most to profits are rewarded, while low-value employees have corresponding rewards.

Performance-pay and time attendance tracking

Performance-based pay and telephone time clocking-type systems are two sides of the same productivity coin. You can make the two strategies work together to achieve more complete and fair results, using techniques like:

• Starting simple by instituting bonuses for people following clock in and out procedure correctly
• Use your telephone time clocking system to accurately measure output for time present at work, and therefore identify bonus-worthy employees
• Creating a forfeit-system for any employees found not to be using the clock-in system correctly

Time Attendance Tracking: The Impact of an Outdated Browser

There are a lot of things that can impact on the productivity and profitability of your business. Many of them are actually out of your control ... market fluctuations, business risks, and employee attentiveness. If you've recently discovered the impact that taking control of time attendance tracking can have on your bottom line - congratulations! However, there are some sneaky hidden factors that can still impact on the usefulness of telephone time clocks. One of those is, surprisingly, your internet browser. Today we check out why!

The differences between internet browsers

The world of computing is changing pretty rapidly nowadays. We've come a long way in the couple of decades since 286 computers started appearing in peoples homes with monochrome green and black graphics! You can no longer depend on a single, non-updated program to perform its best in an internet-based computing environment. One of the areas where problems often show up is your browser.

Currently, Internet Explorer 8, the newest version of Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome are more than adequate for ordinary web-based tasks. But when it comes to doing

The impact of an old browser on your telephone time clock experience

The impact that an older version of a browser has on your experience with time and attendance tracking is the same as its impact with other websites. You'll find that:

• Features like drop down boxes might not display correctly
• Text might run off the edge of the screen
• The entire experience will be slower
• Sometimes the browser will crash when you're doing critical tasks like calculating reports or sending information
• Sometimes buttons randomly disappear

Support for older browsers

Every time a website is built, it needs to be tested and refined across all different browsers to make sure that it will operate properly in the different environments.

For most web developers, there is simply no point testing websites in older browsers like Internet Explorer 6 anymore. There are too few customers using the platform to justify the time and expense of testing and making fiddly modifications ... and there is a strong expectation that if any customers are still using IE6 or other similar outdated browsers, they will be changing over very soon!