Getting the most out of your staff is one of the fine lines that employers have to cross everyday. No-one particularly likes to be watched or timed as they work and finding systems that suit both staff and management is always a challenge. For both employers and employees these days, it is becoming generally accepted that work patterns are changing. Where historically women have been managing their work hours around home and families, men too want to take advantage of flexible working arrangements and companies are being put under increased pressure to allow for flexible working. No longer is the employee chained to a metaphoric treadmill for a fixed amount of hours during the day; sophisticated time and attendance recording systems now allow employees to work around home commitments.
The accurate recording of flexible working can be labour intensive however and can often outweigh any advantages to both management and workforce alike. However, modern time and attendance management systems can now provide a range of built in facilities to enable effective time management without involving hours of administration.
Most of these systems are now flexible enough to incorporate all sorts of work time scenarios. With accurate time and attendance data being recorded and analysed, companies are able to plan their workloads around employees’ work and home commitments as well as providing forward planning to cover future work scheduling. These modern flexitime management systems can also cope with most shift systems such as: rotating, fixed, variable, flexible, and continental shifts, plus part-time working, job sharing, shift swapping, and yearly hour management. Also most of these systems provide for manual adjustments if needed.
Time recording is no longer cumbersome where lightweight badge readers log attendance and absence accurately and information is channelled easily. Well managed flexible time means a happy workforce and we at P&Q find the solutions to all your time and attendance management requirements.