Digital Clock-in: Who can have most benefitted?

 

Amid the recent global pandemic, most of the organizations have been moved to remote working patterns, tracking and recording employee attendance evident to be a time-consuming, unreliable and imprecise. Therefore, many global organizations have been introduced  a digital clock-in method to record attendance and will replace the traditional methods of tracking attendance. Who can be most benefitted?

Digital attendance can get rid of the frustration of manual attendance process. This can be take over manual work of day to day employee management tasks such as panning daily/weekly workflow and budgeting. Automating this process can eliminate manual record keeping that allow access to employee attendance records from anywhere. It is evident that most of the global organizations enjoy the benefits of automated attendance tracking.

This is not surprising as we are living in digital era, everyone has smart phones in their hands. Why any organization rely on paper records of their employee attendance? Perhaps, they haven’t realized massive benefits of digital attendance recording could be for their businesses.

Let’s explores the benefits of switching digital clock-in, and recording attendance.

1.     Increased Productivity

Manual payroll can be complicated and more time consuming for organizations. Managers and HR have to go through every record of their employee attendance and analyzing their late attendance/work patterns. This can be several hours per day which can reduce productivity. Managers can use this time for other business priorities. Most importantly, you can’t be certain of the accuracy of these data collection. Using a digital attendance recording can save time, enhance data accuracy and increase productivity of the business.

2.     Enhanced Security

Use of digital attendance recording system can be more secure than manual recording. Keep digital records can protect data for future reference as reliable sources for important decision making. As example, companies rely on attendance records when deciding annual bonuses and increment as well as certain records of punctuality can use for promotion decisions.

3.     Hassle-free Shift Management

Real time attendance data can helps companies to take daily planning decision effectively. Also, these data can be use for evaluate and decide operations and planning on other departments too. For example; overtime records can use for budgeting and staff allocation among the departments. If any of the department has lack of staff, digital attendance records can be used for staffing arrangements with real time notifications to staff as well as supervisors.

4.     Flexible Working Arrangements

Covid-19 pandemic has made many organizations realized their employees can work remote or on-site. They identified that they can continue to work and meet targets even during the lockdowns. Digital clock-ins made easy to track employee attendance and keep records on time. Implementing this method was an encouragement to most of the employees as they knew they can work from wherever they can management has a track of their working hours and availability.

 Reference

Aon UK (2021), Online Benefits And Communications That Really Work, Retrieved from https://www.aon.com/unitedkingdom/employee-benefits/online-benefits-and-communications/default?msclkid=5de136c4ef971fcdcc9e5547be999c4f&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=S%20%7C%20UK%20%7C%20EB%20%7C%20Online%20Benefits%20%26%20Communications%20%7C%20Retainer&utm_term=Digital%20benefits&utm_content=P%20%7C%20Technology

HR Artis (2022), 5 Benefits of using digital time and attendance, Retrieved from https://www.hrartis.com/za/5-benefits-of-using-digital-time-and-attendance/