The Time Keeper

I am the head of payroll for a very large company. We employ over two hundred people whom don’t all work at the home office. We have several different branch offices but payroll comes from just one office; my office. If you have ever had to gather information from the employee time clock you know this is no easy task; especially when there are other offices around the county.

There are many times employees forget to clock in or they are out on the job site without ever checking in at the office. They have to write down their time and sometimes they just forget. This became a big hassle. Finally I got my boss to begin using the telephone time clock where all the employees call in to clock in and clock out. It’s simple and takes less time than actually clocking in the old fashioned way.

At the end of the pay period I can get all the data from all the employees in one click of the mouse. It lets me know exact times to the second and tallies up all the numbers for me. It has made my job so much easier and less stressful. I don’t know how we ever got along before we got the phone time clock system; I would spend the entire day doing payroll while all my other duties piled up.

The employees don’t mind making the call every day and it sure helps us to know who is working where and for how long. There are times when we absolutely need to know who was working on a certain job and all we have to do is check the time attendance tracking data to get the answer. There is no more guess work about it. I don’t stress about doing payroll anymore.

Controlling the Time

My husband and I own a rather large construction company. We have many different projects going on at the same time and many employees who are assigned to remote sites away from our office. Sometimes the jobs we do are out of town, which makes it impossible for our employees to actually clock in. Keeping up with payroll was a real hassle especially when many of our employees work a great deal of over-time. A year ago I took care of that big problem by using a telephone time clock system. This has eliminated 99% of the stress associated with payroll. Our employees simply call to clock in and out and their time is recorded and sent to me daily.

Running a business is difficult and when you have well over a hundred employees the difficulties multiply daily. Time attendance tracking lets us know exactly when and for how long each of our employees are working. We even added some additional information to each of our employee’s time clock profiles that tells us the rate of pay they make. This system has made our lives so much less stressful and has made payroll a much more pleasant task. It used to take me an entire day to figure out time sheets; now I just print off the information from the phone time clock and most of my work is done.

I highly recommend this time-saving product for any company, especially if you have employees that work off site from your main office. The telephone time clock system that we began using has been the difference between hours and hours of tedious work and just clicking a few buttons and having all that information in one report. We’ve also saved thousands of dollars in over paying our employees who were simply guessing how many hours they worked. Now we know exactly how many hours have been worked and all the guessing is behind us.