Employee Time & Attendance System Blog

While also covering workforce management and business automation topics, Acumen's blog focuses on employee time and attendance systems and software, employee time clocks, and employee scheduling.

Time and Attendance Buying Guide

Learn about Acumen's time and attendance buying guide, featuring all you need to know about purchasing and implementing a new time and attendance system. Everything from deployment method to employee time clocks to price is considered in this time and attendance buying guide. Read our free, 16-page time and attendance buying guide today.

Time Clock Buying Guide

Our Time Clock Buying Guide provides impartial advice for selecting an employee time clock based on your unique needs. Read our Time Clock Buying Guide for an in-depth review of the advantages and disadvantages of different clocking types and communications types, as well as many other time clock purchase considerations.

Maximizing HR Shared Services Potential while Avoiding Lock-in

Reduce HR costs by implementing an HR Shared Services plan. Read this free white paper to discover new sources for HR savings that will actually improve your HR infrastructure, capabilities, benefit offerings, efficiency, and bottom-line. Read on.

10 Ways to Reduce HR Costs while Keeping All-Star Employees

These days, everybody is looking at every corner of HR costs to help save money. Time and attendance systems are no exception. Learn ten ways to help reduce HR costs without losing your best performing employees. Learn more.

Best Employee Time Clock

Acumen's GT550 time clock was recently awarded Best Time Clock by Best Time & Attendance. Learn why the GT550 won Best Employee Time Clock or check out the GT550's specifications here.

Licensed Vs. SaaS Time & Attendance Software

One of the key criteria when considering time and attendance solutions, the delivery model - that is, licensed software hosted on-site or software as a service (SaaS) hosted by a time and attendance provider - can surprisingly affect the final system significantly. Read this article to learn about the benefits of SaaS time and attendance over licensed systems across ten critical time and attendance system purchase criteria.

How to Budget Time & Attendance Systems

Planning and budgeting a time and attendance system can seem like a difficult process when you first begin the research process. This white paper makes planning and budgeting easier by providing you with industry insider tips, best practices, and features to consider. Read the full white paper.

Guide to Transitioning from Manual to Automated Time & Attendance Systems

If you're new to automated time and attendance systems, this guide is essential to transitioning from manual processes to automatic, synchronized time and attendance systems. Get the confidence you need to make the best decision by reading this article about implementing an automated time and attendance system.

Conquer Complex Pay Rules & Union Requirements with Acumen Time & Attendance Software

Most time and attendance software cannot manage complex pay rules and union requirements because there is so much variation and unique types of compensation out there. For organizations with complex pay rules, one size does not fit all. Payroll for union employees can be extremely complex - conquer the complexity with Acumen's time and attendance software. Read the full post.

Top 7 HR Trend Predictions for 2012

We know - it's early - but, face it: most of 2011 is already in the rear-view mirror, and not much is going to change between now and the holidays. 2012 will come as an opportunity to start working on positive growth. Check out some early 2012 predictions from a leader in HR Management Software, Acumen Data Systems. Read on.

Time & Attendance for Your Existing Hardware

Unlike many other time and attendance providers, Acumen implements its time and attendance software into existing infrastructure for the most cost-effective and non-disruptive implementation. We regularly implement our time and attendance systems into mixed hardware fleets consisting of everything from employee time clocks to access control hardware. Learn more.

Tip Tracking with Your Time & Attendance System

Ever wonder about how tips and tip pooling should be managed according to the Fair Labor Standards Act? Learn about the federal mandates regarding tip-earning employees, record-keeping requirements, employee eligibility, and more by reading this article.

Employee Time & Attendance Recordkeeping

So many different pieces of legislation govern employee recordkeeping requirements that it has become a real management burden for many businesses. If you're wondering what recordkeeping requirements apply to employee time and attendance-related information, check out this blog entry for best practices that will help you mitigate the risk of litigation.

How Fingerprint Time Clocks Work

Sometimes, we encounter objections from employees centering around fingerprint biometric technology. Some people assume that the technologies used in fingerprint time clocks and law enforcement are the same - but they couldn't be more different. Learn how to put employees' fears at ease by reading how fingerprint time clocks work today.

Unions, Labor Law, and Time & Attendance

Unions across America are under attack. Wrongly accused of losing American jobs and stifling competition, unions ensure fair pay and equitable treatment amongst employees. Read the blog today.

Benefits of Custom-Tailored Time & Attendance Systems

Time and attendance systems that are custom-tailored to seamlessly integrate with existing systems (payroll, ERP, MRP, databases, etc.) provide the best ROI when compared to off-the-shelf time and attendance software and systems. Learn the advantages you can achieve with custom-tailored time and attendance solutions over out-of-the-box software.

Ensure Compliance with Labor Laws with Time & Attendance

Labor laws can be complex and varied from state to state. But from Pennsylvania to California, government agencies are cracking down on labor law violations. Make sure you're in compliance by reading this post.

Processes Improved by Job Tracking Software

With Acumen's job tracking software, you're empowered with greater insight into your production processes than ever before. Learn how job tracking software improves business and manufacturing processes such as machine tracking, production scheduling, job costing, manufacturing automation, and food production.

Plug & Play Time Clocks: One Size Fits All?

We all know the beauty of plug-and-play devices, but can employee time clocks really offer plug-and-play functionality? To some manufacturers, a plug-and-play time clock means it will work - but you'll have to change the way you do business to use it! Learn the truth about plug-and-play time clocks and the steps involved for integrating them with your time and attendance system by reading this article.

Switch Time & Attendance - Keep Your Payroll System & Time Clocks

With Acumen's employee time and attendance software, you can switch to our systems without having to also switch payroll systems or time clocks. Since our time and attendance software is interoperable with nearly any payroll system and time clock, you can rest assured you'll enjoy a smooth transition to our systems.

Why Your Time & Attendance Roll-Out Exceeded Budget

While there are many reasons an employee time and attendance system can go over budget, a few tend to come up again and again. We've highlighted some of the most common reasons new employee time and attendance system integrations go over budget - and what you can do to avoid the extra costs.

Minor Employees: Child Labor Law Crackdowns

Acumen's time and attendance software keeps you in compliance with all labor laws - but it has specific minor employee rules you won't find in other software. With ever-increasing fines and litigation over minor employee labor, make sure you're not at risk by implementing Acumen's time and attendance software. Learn more by reading this blog entry.

Employee Time & Attendance for Mobile Workforces

Nucleus Research reports that a company can save 2.2% of an employee's gross earnings by implementing an employee time and attendance system. For the 78 million-plus mobile workers in North America, time and attendance is difficult to track and verify. Using the median income for the US, this represents over $86 trillion dollars! Learn more about employee time and attendance for mobile workforces by reading the blog.

Family & Medical Leave Act: Participation Survey

A 2011 survey highlights the participation of different organizations in offering FMLA-related programs to employees. Read the full survey results.

IBM i5 (iSeries) Time & Attendance

iSeries administrators are used to paying more for iSeries services, from backup to data replication. At Acumen, we believe all platforms are equal - yes, even iSeries. Learn more about Acumen's time and attendance solution for iSeries (IBM i5 platform).

Buy Employee Time Clocks Instead of Renting & Start Saving

Some of the large players in the time and attendance industry rent employee time clocks to customers instead of selling them outright. This forces the customer into a perpetual payment plan that can cost a company thousands each year. At Acumen, we sell our valued customers time clocks outright - and achieve a return on the investment within months. Find out how much you can save by reading this blog post.

Setting-Up Employee Task Tracking in Acumen's Employee Time & Attendance Software

With Acumen's employee time and attendance software, LaborVIEW, you can quickly and easily setup employee task and job tracking to provide insight into direct and indirect labor. With Acumen's flexible time and attendance software, you can create as many tasks as you'd like to ensure your time and attendance system fits the unique needs of your business and specific tasks on which your employees work.

Job Tracking Software Benefits

The primary benefit of job tracking and job costing software is savings. Your profitability will increase dramatically by introducing automation to manufacturing and other business processes. Error will be reduced greatly, providing additional savings - as well as headache prevention. Inventory management, accurate planning capability, and precise job costing are also key benefits to job tracking software. Read the blog to learn more.

Employee Scheduling in Employee Time & Attendance Software Vs. Standalone Employee Scheduling Software

There are many benefits you can enjoy from getting Acumen's employee scheduling software as opposed to doing your employee scheduling in your employee time and attendance software. For instance, can your employee time and attendance software handle schedule rotations? Can it help you reduce labor costs via smart scheduling? Can it create rules to ensure a certain number of managers are scheduled for each shift? How about ensuring an employee with a specific certification is scheduled when that designation is required? Learn all about the benefits of standalone employee scheduling software in this post.

Automate Your Employee Time & Attendance - and Control Absenteeism & Tardiness

By automating your tardiness and absenteeism tracking, reporting, point (demerit) system, warnings, and terminations - as well as rewards - you can save a substantial amount of time and money. With Acumen's employee time and attendance software, you can qucikly and easily roll-out complex tardiness and absenteeism policies that will save you the headache of managing it all.

For Employees that Work Differentials or Earn More than One Wage, Use Weighted Overtime to Ensure Regulatory Compliance

The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to use weighted overtime, which determines the rate of overtime pay an employee receives based on how many hours are worked at varying rates. Weighted overtime is the average of worked time for employees who receive different rates and/or differentials based on shift, cost center, department, job class, task, and time of day.

Event Manager for Acumen's Employee Time & Attendance Software, LaborVIEW

LaborVIEW’s Event Manager is an incredibly useful – and sometimes overlooked – feature that notifies managers when a certain event is triggered, such as a late punch. Event Manager is very easy to setup and manage.

Get 99.9% Uptime with Acumen's Employee Time & Attendance Software

Get Acumen's workforce management, business automation, and employee time and attendance software-as-a-service (SaaS) and get 99.9% uptime assurance. With Acumen's workforce management and business automation SaaS applications, you'll have access to your data at any time, day or night.

How Employee Time & Attendance Systems Help Facilitate Regulatory Compliance

By providing accountability, reliability, historical records, and secure systems, Acumen's time and attendance software helps facilitate regulatory compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, FairPay Rules, PCI, and more. Read Full Post.

SaaS Employee Time & Attendance Ideal for Interim Solutions

Occasionally, Acumen encounters a situation where an enterprise-level organization is planning on rolling-out a fully integrated, industry-specific business software solution that includes everything from payroll to CRM to ERP to employee time and attendance. The only problem is that it is such a labor-intensive task that they need an interim solution that is robust, customizable, and – most importantly – quick and easy to setup, maintain, and terminate when the integrated system is ready. Read Full Post.

Workforce Management & Business Automation Product Roadmaps

Acumen is constantly evaluating its software in order to ensure our systems stay on the leading edge. This article is the first part of two describing some of the upcoming enhancements for Acumen’s business automation and employee time and attendance products. Read Full Post.

Acumen's ShiftVIEW Makes Employee Scheduling Easy

One of the most time consuming tasks a manager faces is coming up with a workable schedule for staff. That is why Acumen has developed ShiftVIEW, a system that assists employers in this area and that works to free up a manager’s time, thereby saving the company money. ShiftVIEW is an add-on for the LaborVIEW software suite and combines LaborVIEW’s employee management and time tracking capacity with the ability to easily and efficiently maintain employee schedules. Read Full Post.

Return on Investment for Employee Time & Attendance Systems

Automating the Time and Attendance process for your employees with integrated punch clocks can save your organization hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. We’ve outlined several different ways this occurs. First, automated systems reduce time card audit time and the system saves employee labor time. Next, they eliminate the wages paid to employees taking long breaks or lunches or showing up late. Lastly, an automated Time and Attendance system eliminates human error - adding to the savings. Read Full Post.

The Advantages of Biometric Employee Time & Attendance Systems

Biometrics technology can be used as a type of employee time management system because of its ability to recognize people’s unique physiological characteristics. Biometrics based time and attendance terminals are becoming increasingly popular in today’s market because of their many benefits (and, lets face it, hand or face scanning equipment is just pretty awesome). Because biometrics terminals read a person’s unique fingerprint, iris, hand shape, or face shape, they ensure that employees cannot clock in for one another, thereby preventing employee time theft. Read Full Post.