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HR Management Magazine says: "Implementing a time and attendance system can save most employers between 2-5 percent of their total payroll in improved efficiencies and staff reductions...These savings stem from a variety of areas, including paper reduction, elimination of ‘time theft’ (hours paid but not worked), managing leave liability, controlling overtime, fewer errors due to automated

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Say you’re considering automating a few time-intensive tasks. Good thinking. Such necessary operations as staff scheduling and timekeeping eat up hours and therefore dollars. Speaking of dollars, chances are your next consideration will be the cost of that automation, so you investigate. A cursory glance at your options will offer a choice: Do you go with a web-based application or client-server

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What about what I like to call the "fudge factor?" Do you have a means to verify and substantiate suspicions of employee abuse of your timekeeping policies – the early punch ins or the late punch outs – without human (and costly) supervision? Does your current system show employees' clocked hours compared to approved/scheduled hours, over one day or over one or many pay periods? Can you determine

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Even if you have complete confidence in your employees, scheduling and time tracking equipment and monitoring procedures, you still could be losing considerable cash if the equipment doesn't adapt to all permutations of company policy. The permutations are the weak points just waiting to spring big leaks, and every business has them. For example:Do your current equipment and monitoring procedures

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Where are you losing money by overpaying non-exempt workers? Notice that I'm assuming you are losing money. EVERY employer has small, and often big- cash leaks in overpayments that can go unnoticed unless s/he looks carefully for them. These leaks don't have to be hard to find. Just spend a little time thinking about how your business operates- What rules are prescribed for punching in and out?

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Two businesses can appear identical on the outside - or even after you step in the door. Do most Subways or Dunkin Donuts stand out as unique? Well each is, because no two business owners do business the same way. They don't make identical policies or expect identical performance from their employees. That's why cookie-cutter time keeping systems are of practically no use to them. No system right

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What the MyTimeCards customer said..."Every time keeping package we looked at would have required us to change our HR polices to adapt to the software. MyTimeCards on the other hand adapted their program to meet our needs and our policies. For once the software changed to accommodate the people and not the other way around." Why they said it...Remember, any time a human has to intervene to edit

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What the MyTimeCards customer said..."None of the time keeping programs on the market met our needs. MyTimeCards listened to what we wanted and in short order, custom designed a package that did exactly what we wanted it to. We got exactly what we wanted, at fair cost, and quickly. How often can you say that about anything?"Why they said it...With MyTimeCards, you'll get a system customized at no

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What the MyTimeCards customer says... "A timekeeping program shouldn't require much thought or attention. It should do what it does without fuss or bother and be utterly reliable and accurate. MyTimeCards is the perfect program in this regard." Why they say it...Here’s one example…MyTimeCards automates the entire Paid Time Off accrual process. It is 100% accurate, easily editable and customizable

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What the MyTimeCards customer said..."MyTimeCards is easily the most responsive software company I've ever dealt with. They treat our every question, comment, or concern as if it were their top priority." Why they said it...MyTimeCards always providesPersonal attention with 24 hour response guaranteeFree staff trainingFree set up and badge encodingFree unlimited tech supportFree software

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What would you expect from a company that boasts about their customer service? Prompt and careful attention to your needs as a customer? Thoughtful and complete product or service information? Some "give" and not just "take"? A sustained relationship rather than one that ends at the point of sale? MyTimeCards is proud of our Customer Care. We take pride in responding personally and promptly to

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Daniel Kehrer, Editor, Business.com & Work.com reports that "a time and attendance system can help you control employee absenteeism by helping you keep better and more accurate records." A good system lets you monitor attendance trends by employee, department, date or weekday so you can address problems early and with accurate documentation.A wide variety of reports may be generated quickly in

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Need to know where staff hours are spent by project or by location or budget line? Experts at hrVillage.com say..."Key features for enterprises which seek to track their employee's time include the following: * Automated assignment of work * Manager-level dashboards * Executive-level dashboards * Automatic timesheet data coordinated to project schedule updates * employee

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According to Jason Agard, Senior Associate Editor, Business.com, "the right [employee scheduling] system can yield distinct benefits, including efficiency gains that go straight to the bottom line."Depending on the employee scheduling system you choose, it will enable you to:• Confidently schedule appointments and meetings• Coordinate multiple schedules among employees• Keep accurate records on

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HRMReport.com sites several best practices in time and attendance, for example: "...corrections or amendments to prior periods should be done in time and attendance and go through the same approval workflow and calculation process. Once users make corrections, the software should recalculate prior period time sheets in order to correct the errors and calculate the adjustments automatically. By

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According to HR Management Magazine, "Perhaps the first rule and best practice (for automated timekeeping systems)is that employees should enter data and the software should apply the HR/payroll rules and calculations. This is important to (a) ensure accuracy and consistency in your calculations and (b) eliminate subjectivity in the process of calculating employee pay. Often times pay rules are

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"The most common myth is that time and attendance systems are only for hourly (non-exempt) employees who need to use badge readers. In fact, modern systems today are deployed enterprise-wide to both hourly and salaried employees via a web-browser to give them the capability to report project hours, report absences, request time off, and perform self service inquiries among other things." * In

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"The Department of Labor recovered more than US$196 million in back wages in 2004 as a result of FLSA violations. Using a time and attendance system makes compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) much easier. Good time and attendance systems will automatically collect time worked, apply overtime rules consistently, and use advance calculations to handle the regular rate of pay

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HR Management Magazine says: "Implementing a time and attendance system can save most employers between 2-5 percent of their total payroll in improved efficiencies and staff reductions...These savings stem from a variety of areas, including paper reduction, elimination of ‘time theft’ (hours paid but not worked), managing leave liability, controlling overtime, fewer errors due to automated

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According to the US Dept of Labor, about 61.8 million people, or 26.4 percent of the American population, volunteered through or for an organization at least once between September 2007 and September 2008. Besides giving back to the community, volunteerism is part of court-ordered community service, college applications, tuition credit at private schools and more, and it can carry a lot of weight

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More and more consumers, with all good intentions, are embracing the Buy Local movement; however, according to Business Week, "Some question whether buy-local efforts really do help communities. 'It's easy to show that the local businesses benefit. It's very hard to show the costs,' says Russell Roberts, an economist at George Mason University and host of the EconTalk podcast. 'The costs can

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If you're using Quickbooks, Paychex, ADP or other payroll system, and not using automated employee timekeeping to enter payable hours, you're not getting the maximum benefit of automation. Manual and punchclock methods of timekeeping are error-prone and waste time and paper. Staff intervention is always costly.The more staff functions you automate, the greater your savings. Since 2005,

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For many people, franchising has proven to be a viable way to become business owners. For the most part it offers the lowest risks and the highest level of support including brand name and trademarks, marketing and advertising, web sites, toll free numbers, operations manuals and proven systems - along with thorough training in every aspect of the business. A huge attraction for some: You can

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How many other contingencies can find you short-staffed? Holidays can put a dent in productivity. And workers are finding they don't have to contract H1N1 themselves to be off the job - having a family member diagnosed is reason for most employers to tell a worker "Stay home." What can you as an employer do to keep your operation in the black regardless of absenteeism? Consider initiating a

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Mel Kleiman, North America’s leading consultant on strategies for hiring and retaining the best frontline, hourly employees and their managers says "Most employers are unsuccessful in their efforts to attract quality frontline workers in sufficient numbers and retain them long enough to realize a return on their investment. Because hourly employee turnover rates historically run from 70 to 120

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Even manufacturers of the biggest, most powerful document management equipment admit a paperless office is an elusive if not unreachable goal. But that doesn't mean you can't drastically reduce the amount of paper handling that is costing you money. According to Buyer Zone, "If it takes five minutes to retrieve and replace a paper file and an employee works with ten paper files per day, that's

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Don't have all the business you'd like to have? If not, what can you do about it? Take a look at your own performance with this in mind:"Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends."Walt Disney, entertainment icon“An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.” Mae West, actress and sex symbol“There is at least one point in the history of any company

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What comes to mind when you hear the phrase "customer service"? What comes to my mind: product repair, answers to customer questions, sales and payment issues. Maybe it's just me, but "customer service" seems a lot like "problem resolution." There's an element of negativity to the phrase. How about when you hear the phrase "customer care"? You might not hear birds singing, like I do, but don't

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With 4 employees paid weekly, according to the American Payroll Association the time it takes to process traditional timecards costs you $30/mo. Automated timekeeping virtually eliminates that expense. Now I know what you're thinking - your payroll clerk is on salary, so saving a few hours a month doesn't save you any money. I say, why have salaried employees doing unnecessary tasks? With so many

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How else might you be overpaying employees by not accurately tracking time? Human error - the simple math errors employees make when accounting for their work times. American Payroll Association estimates the average error rate on manual time cards to be between and 2 and 8%. A modest error rate of 2% for 4 employees paid $10/hr costs you $128/mo. But, you may ask, if they are simple math errors,

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A popular myth around automated timekeeping is the one that says if you only have 3 or 4 employees, you don't need a timekeeping system. Maybe you don't need one, but why not be sure? Take a look at the potential savings vs the cost.Any employer who doesn't accurately track work hours is probably overpaying. One factor is wasted labor minutes - extended breaks, overestimated work times, and more.

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Employers faced with cost reduction and/or downsizing may find help using independent contractors rather than carrying employees on their payroll. They reduce their tax and benefit liabilities by using contractors legally and effectively. Before taking this tack, it's important to educate yourself. The IRS and DOL have regulations they are famous for sticking to! Don't get on their radar by

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Automation - The Best Plumber's HelperCASE # 3 - Manual Time Card PreparationThe average payroll clerk spends 7 minutes per timecard each pay period:Preparing and handling timecards Computing timecard totalsVerifying timecard totals Computing shift and department totalsReconstructing lost or damaged timecardsThe Cost: Preparing 100 timecards will take an estimated 11.67 hours to complete.

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Automation - The Best Plumber's HelperCASE # 2 – Human ErrorThe American Payroll Association estimates that the rate of human error in timecard preparation is between 1% and 8%.Your overpayment: Therefore, a conservative 2% human error rate on a $12,000 payroll would equal $240.00 in erroneous wages paid per pay period. Moreover, the cost to re-issue correct payroll amounts (if the error is

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Automation - The Best Plumber's HelperCASE # 1 - Wasted Labor MinutesDid you know that just 15 employees receiving pay for merely 4 minutes of "wasted" time per day [untracked breaks, extended lunches, over-approximated punch times, etc.] will total 1380 minutes [23 hours] of additional pay per month?Your overpayment: If your average pay rate is $10.00 per hour, then you pay an extra $230.00 each

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Say you have used the Exemption Test in the previous post and find that you do indeed have employees not covered by FLSA wage and hour regulations. Does that mean you don't need to track their hours worked? Absolutely not! There are many reasons an employer, and salaried employee, can benefit from using an automated timeclock:quickly and accurately maintain paid time-off balancestrack hours given

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In their whitepaper, "Total Wage and Hour Compliance: An Initiative to End the Wage and Hour Class Action War", labor law experts Littler Mendelson, P.C., note that employers are ever more the targets of wage and hour litigation. In the six month period from October 2007 to March 2008, over 75% of the class action employment law suits filed nationwide were wage and hour related: 1257 out of 1655

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As good as we know MyTimeCards is, neither it nor any automated timekeeper can make your company totally compliant with federal and state wage and hour laws. Compliance takes more than accurate employee tracking. It takes people, more specifically it takes supervisors. There are assurances of compliance that only direct supervision can give:that employees are actually taking the breaks

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The Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor is responsible for enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which primarily governs overtime laws, minimum wage laws, and child labor laws; however, by far the most frequently found violations the WHD discover are those involving overtime pay. By law, any employee is eligible for overtime pay, at time and a half, unless they are

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Did you hear the one about the employer who had to pay out millions in back wages and fines because the company timeclock was wrong? Not funny, and not a punchline any boss would want to be. An employer's total compliance with FLSA regulations is more important than ever before. And don't forget, individual states have their own compliance standards you must follow as well. The number of wage and

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