Time Masters Exhibited at HR Star Conference in Los Angeles
April 4, 2011 § Leave a comment
With over 800 HR professionals gathered together at the Los Angeles Convention Center on March 30th, Time Masters enjoyed informing the public about the importance of time & attendance systems. With the new line-up of biometric systems at prices lower then your average punch clocks; the HR professionals were amazed. The line-up included Time Masters Biometric Fingerprint terminals, Geometry Handpunch 1000 and 4000E with access control, Time Masters Facial recognition system and last put not least our proximity card/badge reader. The questions were endless and smiles were the outcome. Most of the HR professional told Time Maters that there payroll department were paying monthly fees for there time clocks! Time Masters assured them, that we have NO monthly fees, NO employee fees, the price you see is the price you pay. Eliminating time cards and the need for ribbons were also a plus factor for the HR professionals, because we all known how expensive these time cards get. Overall Time Masters wants to Thank the HR Star Conference for a great show. We are looking forward to see them at the San Francisco Conference coming up in mid July.
Time Masters Attendance Software Will Demonstrate at HR Star Conference In Los Angeles, March 30, 2011.
March 21, 2011 § 1 Comment
On March 30, 2011, Time Masters will be attending the HR Star Conference in Los Angeles, CA, to demonstrate the Time Masters’ AMG Time and Attendance Software and hardware options. Each year, the HR Star Conference draws over 800 attendees from small, medium and large businesses in the southern California area. “We are excited to share how our software can help businesses manage their bottom line and their workforce in a recovering economy,” says Tigran “Tony” Galstyan, Owner and President of Time Masters. “We are specifically looking forward to explaining how a time and attendance management system creates bulletproof documentation that protects you from Department of Labor investigations. Managing attendance is a simple, cost effective way of protecting your bottom line and protecting you as a business owner.”
Time Masters’ AMG Time and Attendance Software is a comprehensive, user-friendly employee time management tool. Key features of the AMG Time and Attendance Software include:
• HR Functions – The AMG Attendance System performs HR functions including tracking employee attendance, tracking employee tardiness and earliness, tracking transfers from one department or job to another, the assigning of schedules, applying rounding to In and Out punches, calculating overtime, and calculating employee time and wages.
• Payment Policies – In the AMG Time and Attendance System, you can create as many policies as you need allowing you to define holiday payment rules, define overtime payment rules and report exceptions. Three levels of overtime and overtime calculation are also supported.
• Shifts – The AMG Attendance system supports multiple shift groups, individual shifts, flexible shifts and floating shifts.
• Comprehensive Reporting System – Approximately 30 reports are included in the AMG Time and Attendance System and the generation of each report is designed to be simple and quick. Reports can be saved as different file formats (.doc, .xls, .pdf, etc.), printed or automatically sent to any email recipient.
• Payroll Export – Time Masters’ AMG Time and Attendance System exports directly to third party payroll systems and can also be sent to any email recipient. The following payroll exports are currently supported by Time Masters: ADP for Windows, QuickBooks Pro, Paychex Preview and Peachtree 2003.
• Bell Ringing – This module creates bell schedules that can activate devices to ring a bell. The bell schedule can be defined by days of the week, time of day and duration of the ring.
• Correcting Wrong Transactions – Time Masters Time and Attendance Software tracks all transactions caused by incorrect badge numbers, incorrect department codes and incorrect job codes. These mistakes can later be corrected by assigning the correct codes.
• Device Polling – This module allows for the polling of information from data collection terminals while also synchronizing any changes in the computer’s time and date with those terminals.
• Badge Transfer – Managers can transfer employee information from one data collection terminal to another without having to perform double work. Once a badge has been created within any terminal, it can easily be transferred to any other terminals in the network.
• Benefit Accruals – This feature allows an employee to be assigned specific benefit time (i.e. vacation or sick time) and the attendance software automatically calculates the balance of this benefit time.
• PC Clock – The PC clock allows employees to log their attendance at their PC without the use of a data collection terminal.
• Status Board – This feature of Time Masters’ Time and Attendance Software gives supervisors the ability to see what employees are doing or what they have done within a 99 hour time frame. It is defined by 5 statuses: working, absent, outside, lunch and break.
For more information on Time Masters and its attendance management solutions, please visit http://www.time-masters.com.
February 4, 2011: The Week in Time Attendance
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Welcome to February 4, 2011 and this is The Week in Time attendance:
Gatekeeper Business Solutions, Inc. announces a free webinar: Mastering the Employee Screen. Webinar attendees will receive instructions from Mark Scheidler on powerful utilities in the Employee Screen of the Labor Management System including: compensation, federal and state tax compliance, employee termination, and much more. For the complete press release, please click here.
10 Easy Ways to Show Your Employees You Love Them. In this article author, Amy-Mae Elliott, gives 10 quick tips to show more than your sweetheart how much you appreciate them this Valentines Day. For the complete article please click here.
Kronos introduces new mobile applications as a next step in its vision for the next generation of workforce management. Kronos mobile applications give employees and managers flexibility in how they interact with each other and provide anytime, anyplace, instant connection to the Kronos Workforce Central suite. For the complete press release, please click here.
Best Time and Attendance Software System Download: 2011 Reviews. What are the best time and attendance management systems for time recording, billing and tracking school students, churches and corporate employees in 2011? For the complete article, please click here.
ADP: Total cost of ownership of payroll and hr functions can be significantly reduced. ADP’s study reveals that outsourcing multiple HR functions to a single vendor reduces costs by 24% on average. For the complete press release, please click here.
Time Tag: A dependable yet dry punch clock. Compact in size with advanced imaging features ensure an innovative yet simple approach to mobile and portable capture, management, and storage of documents. For the complete press release, please click here.
Cybershift gives retailers a competitive edge with automated workforce management. In Cybershift’s latest white paper, “specialty retail workforce management,” the global provider of workforce management and expense management software and services, shares strategies to help specialty retailers manage their payroll/labor spend. For the complete press release, please click here.
Mobile Apps for Human Capital Management revealed. Kronos and ScheduleSource, two vendors of human capital management software have unveiled their mobile workforce management applications claiming to relieve HR managers of low-value, time consuming-tasks. For the complete article, please click here.
Seven criteria for selecting a workforce management product by David Sims. Courtesy of Monet Software, David has republished a list of some criteria that should be considered when selecting a workforce management product for a small to medium sized call center. For the complete article, please click here.
Short. Sweet. That’s The Week. Have a good weekend.
December 31, 2000 – The Week in Time Attendance
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Welcome to December 31, 2010 and this is the last Week in Time Attendance for 2010:
Mobile phone GPS tracks employee time and attendance using Legiant. Legiant announced the addition of mobile GPS tracking technology to their Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solution. For the complete press release, please click here.
Mississippi State Government will be implementing a labor management system to reduce overtime and labor costs. With cuts recommended for most state governments next year, law makers are looking to Kronos for a way to replicate a workforce management system to help control labor costs. For the complete article, please click here.
Perfect timing with the use of fingerprint time attendance machines in India. Each and every company uses time and attendance systems irrespective of company size for recording work hours and correctly paying wages. For the complete press release, please click here.
No-fault attendance systems and the FMLA. Penalizing an employee for taking FMLA under a “no fault ” attendance policy faults an employee for taking leave itself. An employee in Indiana brought an FMLA suit to court citing problems with its “no fault” attendance policy. For the complete case overview, please click here.
Mesa employees donate vacation time to help dad deal with daughter’s cancer. “What they donated is a gift from the heart, a real sacrifice…It’s a tribute to the people we have working for us,” says Mesa Mayor Scott Smith. For the complete article, please click here.
Plantation management company renews time and attendance system subscription agreement with Gatekeeper Business Solutions. Plantation Management Company has employed Gatekeeper Business Solutions time and attendance system to manage labor and payroll since 2001. For the complete press release, please click here.
Short. Sweet. That’s The Week. Have a good weekend and Happy New Year!
December 3, 2010 – The Week in Time Attendance
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Welcome to December 3, 2010 and this is The Week in Time Attendance:
EZTimeSheet is an easy-to-use time and attendance software saves time and reduces costs for small to mid sized businesses. As small businesses have struggled to keep track of employee time and attendance, ezTimeSheet tracks employees and improves the efficiency of an small to medium size business. For the complete press release, please click here.
The city of Plattsburgh, NY adopts a new time and attendance system to help manage the city’s labor costs. The city selected California-based Principal Decision Systems International and expects to save $400,000 to $500,000 in labor costs in the first year alone. For the complete article, please click here.
Attendance on Demand establishes a service partnership with Irvine, CA, based company CanopyHR. Attendance on Demand is looking forward to using the relationship with CanopyHR to increase the quality and level of service that it currently offers. For the complete press release, please click here.
Redcort Software has released free new employee time and attendance resources. The resources include overtime rules for each state, calendars with the dates of common business and federal holidays, and a free time card calculator. For the complete press release, please click here.
New Mexico health facilities eliminate bogus time-clock punching. Through the use of biometric data collection terminals, the company is more effectively manage its labor costs which account for 40-50% of its operational budget. For the complete press release, please click here.
California 22nd District Agricultural Association uses NOVAtime Saas timekeeping solution to manage its workforce efficiently. The 22nd DAA has grown particularly fond of the pay-as-you-go per-employee-per month cost structure which allows for expansion and reduction as necessary in the budgeting process. For the complete press release, please click here.
Biometrics hits the workplace. In this article by Admire Moyo, the author discussess the ongoing innovation in the biometrics arena and its increasing integration into IT infrastructure resulting in complete workplace access management systems. For the complete article, please click here.
Legiant Express offers faster and simpler time and attendance tracking. Legiant Express meets the demands of customers for a simpler, economical and user-friendlty time and attendance system. For the complete press release, please click here.
Short. Sweet. That’s The Week. Have a good weekend!
Thanksgiving – A Few Facts Before the Feast
November 24, 2010 § Leave a comment
So before we all sit down for a well deserved Thanksgiving meal, I thought this blog would take a walk on the lighter side of life to remind us of the history of why we’re all not going to work tomorrow (and why we’re scheduling holiday and vacation pay in human resources).
Thanksgiving was first celebrated by the Plymouth Pilgrims who arrived in North America in December 1620. By the fall of 1621 only half of the pilgrims that had sailed on the Mayflower survived. Thankful to be alive, the survivors decided to give a Thanksgiving feast (which lasted three days).
The drink of choice at Thanksgiving was beer.
Despite the fact that the turkey is the modern day centerpiece of a Thanksgiving meal for 91% of Americans, turkey was not served at the first thanksgiving meal. Instead, they feasted on various seafood, deer, corn, eggs, squash, spices, and popcorn. Native Americans did not eat cranberries (or crane berries) at that time though they did use them for dying clothes.
The Native Indians outnumbered the pilgrims nearly two to one at Thanksgiving. (If they only knew the future, would they have still helped?)
President George Washington issued the first national Thanksgiving Day Proclamation n the year 1789 and again in 1795. However it wasn’t until 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln officially set aside the last Thursday of November as the national day for Thanksgiving.
Benjamin Franklin wanted our national bird to be the turkey.
The heaviest turkey ever raised weighed in at 86 pounds.
For those of you already in the know, the information above is just a friendly refresher. For the rest of us, it might have shed a little light on our grade school perceptions of the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
November 5, 2010: The Week in Time Attendance
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Welcome to November 5, 2010, and this is The Week in Time Attendance:
“What the FMLA Regulations Don’t Tell Employers: Your Attendance or Sick Time Policies May Buy You a Lawsuit!” A 2010 federal court decision lays out serious consequences for employers requiring employees to justify their absences with doctor’s notes when they are already on intermittent or reduced-schedule leave under the Family Medical Leave Act. For the complete article, please click here.
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust to save time and money using SMART. Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, a major employer and health services provider, is using SMART for its e-rostering and time and attendance solutions. For the complete press release, please click here.
Time management software firm ADI Time names DiPippo as CEO. ADI Time, a developer of cloud computing time and attendance software, has named a new CEO to take over leadership of the company. For the complete press release, please click here.
Administaff Survey indicates that small businesses remain cautious. Only 21 percent expect a rebound before mid-2011, while 47 percent anticipate a recovery in the last six months of next year and 32 percent are unsure. For the complete article, please click here.
NETtime Solutions celebrates ten years of delivering dynamic billing for SaaS time and attendance. Nettime Solutions provides just in time delivery of software for a predicable, dynamically billed, and as a SaaS provider of time and attendance in the marketplace. For the complete press release, please click here.
Electronic biometric attendance program installed at POA including 15 biometric hand scanners. POA’s technology manager Charles Williams has given the go-ahead to purchase the attendance system for $18,800 plus an additional $4,200 per year. For the complete press release, please click here.
Fingerprint Based Biometric Systems. In this article, the author delves into the ins and outs of the system including its implementation in Indian scenario, challenges and limitations. For the complete article, please click here.
Short. Sweet. That’s The Week. Have a good weekend!
“Supposed To” – Expectations and Motivation
August 30, 2010 § Leave a comment
“You’re not supposed to do that.”
“You’re supposed to do this.”
“Supposed to”- It’s an interesting phrase and there is a lot built into it. It’s layered with expectation and with judgment and yet at the same time it denotes boundaries and responsibility. So, how do you balance the negative and the positive found in that tiny two-word phrase “supposed to?” And how do you especially find and support this delicate balance with your employees in the workplace where “supposed to” rules the roost. After all, if you don’t get the job done, the business closes. Not a good thing.
How do you (to quote Project Runway’s Tim Gunn) “make it work?”
Finding the Balance
“Do what I tell you to do.” Now, you’ve probably heard this at home more than you’ve heard it in the workplace. You’re supposed to follow orders and you’re supposed to take direction. These are considered good qualities in an employee and in a child. But the flip side is “what is in it for me?” The balance is one between expectation and motivation. You can dictate to someone all day long and if they’re not motivated, you and your army are not going to be able to force them to budge. You cannot make balance happen and therefore you cannot expect it- unless, of course, they want to do it.
Creating the Balance
The line between expectation and motivation is a thin one. When do you motivate and when do you expect? My simple rule of thumb is as follows:
Do they want to do it? – Yes. – Then expect them to do it.
If no, then motivate them.
What is motivation? I define motivation as the intrinsic desire to do something or what I call “the want to” as opposed to “the have to.” It’s internal, not external. You could spend a lifetime learning how to motivate another individual and still not get it right. The key is learning how they tick. The key is in finding what is important to them. Do they appreciate social praise and recognition or do they desire something more private? Do they like to be challenged or coaxed? It really doesn’t get any more personal than what a person is motivated by. It is the ultimate in knowing them.
“Supposed To”
As for expectation, it is a whole different experience. Expecting appropriately is a study within itself as well. Setting expectation is about knowing what a person is capable of, knowing that they have the tools to do it and then letting them go for it. As the Denis Waitley saying goes, “Expect the best, plan for the worst and prepare to be surprised.” Planning for the worst is a key component. What are you going to do if it doesn’t go right? How long are you willing the let them slip up or are you going to allow them to hang themselves?
Plan B is inherent in any set of expectations, but so is allowing the surprise. The allow is everything because it gives room for someone’s potential to shine through. So, when evaluating the “supposed to” in your life, determine what needs to happen. Do you need to motivate? Do you need to expect? Do you need to allow? The outcome will create itself.
August 20, 2010 – The Week in Time Attendance
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Welcome to August 20, 2010 and this is The Week in Time Attendance:”
Red Lion Hotels selected UniFocus Watson, R.M. as its vendor for time and attendance management. Red Lions Hotel selected UniFocus because of its interactive smart clock hardware, overall ease of use and it is a more hospitality oriented system. For the complete article, please click here.
Adam Gorley of HRinfodesk.com posted the article: Does your company use a human resources management system? The article notes some of the reasons for using a human resources management system including interesting quotes from the Canada Payroll Association’s Dialogue magazine. A quote from the article: “Software will help business to keep up by integrating payroll, HR and time and attendance management systems. This will allow organizations to make better decisions on overtime, staffing, service levels and human resources in general.” For the complete article, please click here.
Automated Valet introduced its new biometric time and attendance feature designed specifically for valet. Automated Valet fills this niche markets need for secure time and attendance management. As CEO ken Gulec remarked, ” For the operator and employee, this method of time keeping creates an inarguable foundation of trust. It gives everyone the security of knowing hours are being recorded without mistake.” For the complete release, please click here.
Mitrefinch will be providing Advance Metal Protects with time and attendance systems to aid in cutting their labor and payroll costs. Prior to this switch, up to 130 employees were clocking in and out on a time clock on any given day. The company wanted a system that was easy to install with biometric terminals that would eliminate the buddy punching issue. Mitrefinch was able to provide that and more. For the complete release, please click here.
Indicted district clerk employee receives a 15 year employment pin. The employee has been accused of falsifying time and attendance records to show that employees were working when they were not. The case is still unfolding in Dallas. For more information, click here.
Michelle Durpetti Events has teamed up with Replicon to improve project tracking and invoicing accuracy as well as managing employee time and attendance. For more information, please click here.
Frank Gibson answered compensation questions in a special to the Saipan Tribune. The questions answered involved overtime payment requirements for trainees as well as a question regarding docking hours of an exempt employee. For the complete Questions and Answers, please click here. Note: Answers questions citing the FLSA.
Timely Gain posted on Sify. Quick overview of India’s time and attendance irregularities. For the full snipit, click here.
Biometric Facial Recognition Time and Attendance Systems promise higher accuracy. The article details the pros of a facial recognition system including that it prevents buddy punching. For the complete article, click here.
The APA (American Psychological Association) tracks attendee attendance with RFID badges. While not directly related with employee attendance, it is an interesting article detailing how an event is using attendance technology at their event with more than 10,000 attendees. For the complete article, please click here.
UK factory workers are taking their bosses to tribunal because their wages were being docked every time they went to the toilet. The factory has responded that the allegations are false citing that they pay employees a flat sum at the end of each week for the time spent using the restroom. For the complete story, please click here.
“What’s responsible about unlimited time off?” In a blog post on forbes.com, Aman Singh addresses the Netflix culture and unlimited time off policy. For the complete post, please click here.
Short. Sweet. That’s the week!
PS: For those of you with time and attendance news, feel free to send me your updates at terra@time-masters.com and I’ll be happy to include the in our weekly updates of The Week.
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