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What other kinds of Attendance Systems exist in addition to traditional Time Clocks?
Home » Human Resources » Time Clocks and Attendance Systems » What other kinds of Attendance Systems exist in addition to traditional Time Clocks?By and large, the day of your father’s punch card is gone. Though it still exists in some places, most workplaces have done away with this traditional system whereby an employee places his card into the time card slot to have it punched with the current time.
Two other traditional forms of attendance systems that remain in use are employee time sheets and supervisor visual checks. An employee time sheet is simply an employee’s marking down of his own time. A supervisor visual check philosophy, on the other hand, lays the burden on the supervisor to ensure that the employees are at work when they should be. These forms of attendance systems work especially well at workplaces with few employees and high levels of integrity. They are based on the honor system and are less exact than time clocks, but they are far simpler to employ, and they show employees that their employer trusts them.
In contrast to these traditional forms, however, there are many technologically advanced attendance systems. Some companies have a central computer where all employees log in and out. Companies may even set up additional computers in break rooms to allow employees to clock out for lunch and breaks. Other companies utilize telephone-based and/or internet-based time clocks that allow employees to clock in and out from remote locations.
Finally, some companies use especially secure technology in the form of biometric time clocks. To some degree, these attendance systems are the kind you would expect in a spy movie—fingerprint and retinal scans. The more technological an attendance system is, the more expensive it is, but it is usually more secure and accurate as well.
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