Offices can benefit from time and attendance monitoring
Clarify, a Reading-based business development specialist for the enterprise technology industry, has relocated to offices at Arlington Business Park in Theale.
Their new office space offers open-plan workspaces as well as a variety of meeting areas. Clarify currently has more than 80 full-time employees, and intends to increase staffing numbers significantly within the next 12 months.
"Our employees are central to the success of our business so investing in their workplace experience is of critical importance," said Clarify founder and chief executive Claire Edmunds.
"There’s a growing consensus that looking after your employee needs and providing them with the best possible workplace will deliver better business outcomes."
The design was carried out by Windsor-based office outfitter Blue Jelly.
Source: Insider Media
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Moving into new office premises is the ideal time for senior managers to organise an assessment of their time and attendance monitoring strategies.
Many office-based companies don’t pay much attention to attendance monitoring. They consider the concept of clocking in and out an oppressive “factory thing”.
On the contrary, we consider that offices who don’t have some centralised, data-led form of attendance monitoring are missing out on vital information, and potentially making their management/supervisors do unnecessary work.
For example, a common way that office-based companies record lateness or sickness absence is to ask their employees to text them, or to ring in. This puts all the responsibility of remembering and recording this on the manager’s shoulders.
Organising this data in a way which facilitates easy retrieval can be difficult too – we’ve seen some places which scribble it on post-it notes, or “just remember it”. If HR want to address someone’s persistent lateness, or a worrying number of sickness absences, it is difficult to get an idea of the big picture in these sorts of environments.
Using our time and attendance software to digitise your time and attendance monitoring doesn’t make you Big Brother! It gives you easy access to a database of everyone’s timings, which can be checked, amended or exported as you need.
Clocking data can be collected either by using our physical clocking terminals, with fingerprints or smartcards, or using our browser-based Self-Service Module (SSM) which enables employees to clock in with just one click online. There’s even a mobile app version of the SSM, which is useful for remote workers.