Most time and attendance solutions will require employees to punch in for the day by swiping a card, detecting their presence through RFID tracking, or scanning a part of them through biometric features. Employee benefits can also be monitored by recording how much vacation or PTO (paid time off) they’ve accumulated, and management can create labor reports that give real-time data on employee time metrics. For businesses that work at multiple locations, geolocation and geofencing features can ensure your employees are at the job site when they are supposed to be. They will also control labor costs by ensuring your payroll software is calculating the correct payment figures for employees. Sometimes grouped together within HR software, time and attendance systems provide more functionality then just time in and time out. Employers are able to monitor their employees during working hours by viewing when their working hours are, whether they have fully worked their scheduled shift, when they are assigned breaks are, and what overtime the employee has been putting in.
Time and attendance software allows employees to clock in and out via an electronic method, such as timeclocks, a web-browser, a mobile device, and more.