The following article is about the benefits that Time tracking systems give to employees, employers and different departments of a company.
Time and Attendance Benefits
Time and Attendance Benefits
Time and Attendance, can help your company to be more aware of their workforce, manage the benefit_01cost of labour and absenteeism by providing management with the tools. If you have a T&A system in place, there are many direct and indirect cost savings to be made and benefits to be reaped. With employee self-service, e-working and flexible working hours on the increase, everyone in your organisation can benefit from T&A software:

Employees - How can you benefit from T&A software?
• Empowers you by giving real time access to your own personnel information e.g. holiday balances, overtime worked, flexitime etc;
• saves you time - there is no need to wait for HR or management to provide you with answers to your queries as information is readily accessible;
• allows you request annual leave, flexitime etc. online and view the approval status in real-time;
• ensures you are paid accurately each pay period as T&A software integrates with your payroll system and captures all flexitime, overtime hours worked;
• removes the need to fill out paper time sheets and the tedious manual task of filling them out and getting them signed off.

HR Department - How can T&A software help you?
• streamlines your processes by seamlessly integrating with your current HR system;
• automatically tracks attendance infringements, so you always have real-time employee working hours to hand;
• reduces the number of routine queries to the HR department by allowing employees access their own information and view the status of requests e.g. holiday balances, overtime worked, flextime etc;
• frees up HR time, allowing you and your personnel to focus on more strategic initiatives which add further value to the organisation;
• alerts management to any problem employees or shifts, spots trends and highlights any staff that show superior work habits.

Payroll Department - How can T&A software be of benefit to you?
• eliminates cumbersome manual timesheet entries and associated errors and streamlines the payroll process;
• reduces the number of calls to the payroll department and reduces the number of adjustments to employee pay cheques;
• saves you time as T&A software integrates with your payroll system and eliminates duplication of data entry as well as automatically calculating any roundings or grace periods for breaks, overtime, flexi-balances etc;
• keeps your payroll up to date by automatically identifying employee timesheets stalled in the approval process and back-dating adjustments to payroll when errors / omissions occur;
• ensures social welfare cheques are returned to the payroll department by tracking employee sick certificates.


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