Posts in Time & Attendance
Clarify Overtime Pay in the Healthcare Industry by Understanding the 8/80 Rule

The healthcare industry faces a number of challenges when it comes to staffing 24-hour facilities. Perhaps the biggest challenge is accurately calculating overtime pay for staff who work longer than 8 hours a day or more than 80 hours in the workweek. The solution most health care employer’s use is the 8 and 80 rule. If you’re unfamiliar with the 8 and 80 rule, keep reading to find out how it could benefit you.

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The Cost of Employee Time Theft

Did you know that nearly half of employees commit time theft in one form or another? According to a survey created by Software Advice, 43% of employees accept pay for time that they have not actually worked. Because of this, organizations are losing over $400 billion annually in lost productivity. Of the hourly workers surveyed in this study, not only did 43% of them admit to exaggerating the amount of time they’ve worked during their shifts, but 25% also said they reported more hours than they actually worked on their timesheets almost 100% of the time. However, only 3% of employees surveyed said they committed time theft by using their biometric time clocks. This is a great statistic to keep in mind as you evaluate your timekeeping process.

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3 Tips to Help You Schedule Hourly Employees Better

When you are managing a business that has hourly employees, things can get a little tricky when trying to put a schedule together. Even if you are using a scheduling software, there will always be schedule changes for different reasons. Let’s focus on the restaurant industry, for example. For some reason, there are still a lot of restaurant owners that rely on the pen-and-paper method for creating their schedules. Often, even their method for distributing the schedule is old school and low-tech; for instance, taping the schedule on the wall. Surprisingly, even those who have introduced computers to their scheduling process still struggle. This is mostly because they are using methods like Excel spreadsheets and email to create and distribute their schedules. What they fail to realize is that there is a solution to their problems, and implementing the following 3 tips can help them out.


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How to Establish a "Perfect" Time and Attendance Policy

Absenteeism in the workplace is a real issue and it has become a major problem over the past few years. There are three different types of absences that can potentially impact your business: scheduled, unscheduled, and partial shift absences. Scheduled absences consist of vacation or personal time, such as PTO. Unscheduled absences include sick days, disability, and Worker’s Compensation leave. Lastly, partial shift absences are when a worker arrives late at work, takes longer breaks than allowed, or leaves early. There are different causes for absenteeism, some an employer can control such as bullying and/or harassment in the workplace or employee burnout and there are others that cannot be controlled by an employer such as bad weather, childcare, or even job hunting. Whatever the case may be, employers should be aware of how often their employees are absent from work without a valid reason. Being proactive about managing attendance and talking to those employees that miss work often is a good start, but having a perfect (or almost perfect) time and attendance policy is imperative. If you don’t already have one in place or are thinking about making your current time and attendance policy better, consider the following.

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How to Set Up a Time and Attendance System for Your New Business

Did you just start a business or are you thinking about it? As you think about what talent you want to hire, you should also think about how you plan on tracking the hours they work. Time and attendance tracking is a key component of any business, as there are many aspects to it. One of them is that accurate time tracking ensures that payroll is processed quickly and it guarantees that policies and regulations are enforced. There are many different methods of tracking time and attendance, and it’s up to you to choose which method suits your business the best. Paper forms, punch cards, biometric time clocks, and online web portals are a few examples of these methods, and each method has its own pros and cons. Since we live in such a technology-driven world, paper forms and paper time cards are becoming more and more uncommon due to cloud-based time and attendance systems and biometric time clocks. The truth is that automated time and attendance has been proven to be the best option for any business, so it is highly recommended. With an automated, cloud-based time and attendance system you avoid manual calculations, save time and money, stay compliant, and even reduce absenteeism. All this will in return help your bottom line. So how do you go about setting up a time and attendance system for your business?


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