Taking a Closer Look:
Time and Attendance as an On-Demand Solution

 

Companies of all types and sizes are considering web-hosted or “on-demand” solutions for a range of business process functions – including employee time and attendance tracking. These organizations recognize the potential benefit of less maintenance, lower operational costs, lower cost of ownership, as well as a shift from a capitalized expenditure to a manageable monthly expense.

The Promise of On-Demand

The promise of a time and attendance solution in a monthly subscription or application service provider (ASP) environment is that your organization taps into a full spectrum of employee time management functions without straining IT resources.

The allure is understandable. The ultimate goal of every organization is to do more with less, and do it faster. A web-hosted time and attendance solution lets even the smallest of companies enjoy sophisticated online labor management at a fraction of the cost of purchasing, installing and maintaining traditional systems.

Large organizations benefit from streamlining the process of collecting employee data, consistently enforcing corporate attendance policies, experiencing rapid deployments, and improving employee relations through better communications.

Any upgrades to the system – including updates to handle the recent daylight savings adjustments – are made automatically to the system without need of internal IT support.

What’s the Difference?

With traditional employee time and attendance software, a business purchases costly licensing, hardware, maintenance, version upgrades and support. By contrast, a web-hosted time and attendance solution is delivered over highly secure networks on a monthly subscription basis.

An organization pays only for active employees each month – making the approach particularly attractive for organizations with a seasonal workforce or part-time temporary staff.

With little up-front cost and no software installation, web-hosted employee time and attendance:

• Speeds implementation
• Minimizes expenses and risks
• Overcomes the chronic shortage of in-house IT personnel available

Much like the features provided by the most robust traditional software, businesses can use web-hosted, online services to:

• Track labor information
• Schedule employees
• Budget labor costs
• Manage time off requests
• Automatically accrue leave accumulation
• Share data with payroll software