Chronic Absenteeism Linked to Burnout

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Time Systems International

Time Systems International offers workforce management software, hardware, and database solutions to support companies in the automation of payroll and attendance tasks. Based in Englewood, New Jersey, Time Systems International offers desktop and web-based time tracking services that allow companies to collect important employee attendance data in real-time. This information is useful for predicting and supporting employees at risk of burnout.

While instances of absenteeism are often caused by physical illnesses, mental health issues are the leading reasons for employee absences. Employees who take excessive time off may be at risk of burnout, a state of mental exhaustion caused by ongoing workplace stress.

By tracking absenteeism at the individual level and the department level, companies can pinpoint factors that may be contributing to the uptick in absences. For example, managers can automatically schedule a well-being meeting for workers who call in sick a certain number of days within a given time frame.

Likewise, companies can use historical attendance data to determine if specific periods correlate with increases in absenteeism. This information can be used to discuss strategies for reducing stress in those periods.

Facial Recognition – A Rapidly Evolving Technology

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At Time Systems International, a workforce management solutions provider based in New Jersey, many technologies are leveraged to provide its clients with the most accurate and cost-effective solutions. Among its access control solutions, Time Systems International (TSI) offers a biometric facial recognition scanner that records and monitors employee access. It uses two infrared cameras to identify employees using three-dimensional analysis software.

This security technology is one of many in use today, as facial recognition becomes one of the fastest-growing tech trends in the world. Many have called the work of Woodrow Wilson Bledsoe the first instance of facial recognition, and that involved manual measurement of people’s features.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) rolled out facial recognition programs in the 1990s to encourage their commercial development, and by 2009 facial recognition was being used in law enforcement in the US.

Presently, facial recognition is becoming highly accurate, and use of it in systems such as the ones offered by TSI are expected to be increasingly common.