Increasing Employee Engagement with ID Badges

Well-established workforce management, time, and scheduling solution firm Time Systems International has operated in Englewood, New Jersey, for nearly 60 years. The New Jersey-based Time Systems International offers integrated time and payroll tracking software and hardware using both biometric data and badge systems.

While enhanced identification badges can digitize basic time tracking procedures, they can also be used to implement employee engagement initiatives. For example, ID badges can be used to collect data, such as how employees move around the workplace and how they use common areas. This information can then be used to improve productivity by reorganizing office layouts to be more aligned with employee needs.

Further, companies can set up food and beverage machines or stations that allow employees to purchase items using their ID badge. Similar programs can be set up with outside vendors and retailers, who agree to offer customers with employee ID badges discounts or special deals.

Preparing for the DOL’s New Overtime Rules

Located in New Jersey, Time Systems International provides workforce management solutions, including time keeping software and hardware as well as other HR services. Started over 80 years ago, Time Systems International is a leader in the workforce management arena.

With the start of 2020, the Department of Labor put into effect new rules regarding overtime payment. These regulations have been in the works for over a decade. The Rule increased the salary threshold from $23,660 per year to $35,568 per year.

To tackle this change, make sure you review your overtime, scheduling, and employee exemption policies. You may have to consider how to reclassify employees because employees making more than the new limit of $35,568 per year are not automatically exempt.

To make sure your business is prepared for this and other regulatory changes down the road, consider implementing a dedicated time keeping system. It will be more important than ever to keep detailed and accurate records of employee time data.

Adopting Cloud-Based Technologies to the Remote Workforce

 

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New Jersey-based Time Systems International is a workforce management company that assists businesses with a variety of human resources tasks. As a part of its offerings, Time Systems International (TSI) assists businesses with updating the time and attendance process. Updating methods for tracking time and attendance have progressed significantly to keep up with the evolution of work. For example, today’s cloud-based technologies are being used to help employers keep track of remote workers.

Today, professionals have a myriad of schedules. In addition to the traditional eight-hour business day, professionals might find themselves working flex-time, where work schedules are alternated with others in the office. Then, there is the full and part-time pool of workers who have to track their times and the increasing population of freelance/contract workers. In addition, remote workers have recently become an even greater part of the professional landscape.

For many businesses, tracking time and attendance for remote workers has been simplified through adopting cloud-based technologies. As with other tasks, cloud-based work allows users to access online platforms from anywhere in the world. This technology adapted to time and attendance applications alleviates hassles employers have when trying to accurately calculate employee time. Moreover, it makes payroll less complicated for those who report time.

Mobile phones and GPS technology can help tighten up time and attendance procedures, so that employees are more accurately reporting their time to payroll. Using mobile technologies, employees can simply logon to a platform to clock in. GPS technologies let employers know exactly where the employee is during the workday, and this is particularly helpful for professionals who perform field work. All the person need do is clock in using the mobile device, and supervisors know exactly where the person is throughout the day.

Time Management Software Eliminates Payroll Fraud

  In business for more than 80 years, Englewood, New Jersey, workforce management solutions provider Time Systems International offers software and readers that resolves some of the most common payroll issues faced by employers. Time Systems International’s time-tracking systems feature innovative functions that ensure reliable tracking and minimize opportunities for fraud.

Payroll fraud is a form of employee theft that costs businesses tens of thousands of dollars every year. While it can take many forms, many opportunities for payroll fraud are eliminated by using a bio-enhanced or badge-based reading systems.

One common form of fraud is known as inflating hours. Employees may add a few minutes or hours to their time cards, resulting in extra pay. However, time management software can record clock-in and clock-out times to the minute, making it more difficult to pad the workday. Likewise, employees may take advantage of editable tracking software to add extra hours or report some hours as overtime. Implementing a system with restricted access or lock features can prevent this type of behavior.