Employee Time & Attendance for Mobile Workforces

For the 78 million-plus mobile workers in North America, time and attendance is difficult to track and verify. Many companies rely on inefficient paper-based systems if an employee’s time and attendance is tracked at all.

Bringing accountability to your mobile workforce is essential for businesses today. Nucleus Research showed that businesses can save approximately 2.2% of gross payroll costs by holding employees accountable for their time and attendance. By deploying an employee time and attendance system for your mobile workforce, you can save money without making cuts.

Companies with Mobile Workforces Save Money with Time & Attendance Systems

According to a September 2010 report from the US Census Bureau, the median household income in the United States dropped 2.9% to $50,221 in 2009. Like employees, companies are doing more with less these days - but if you save 2.2% of that $50,221, you can save approximately $1100 per employee per year.

Even if you are a landscaping company with an average pay rate of $15 per employee, you will save $686 per full-time employee per year. That means that even with just a handful of employees, you’ll be able to achieve a return on investment within a year.

Learn more about how you can save with an employee time and attendance system by reading our whitepaper on employee time and attendance system return on investment.

Acumen’s Employee Time & Attendance Software is Smartphone Compatible

Our employee time and attendance software is compatible with any touchscreen smartphone and most web-enabled cell phones. Employees can clock in and out just as easily with their smartphone as they can on their computer. Of course, it also works great on iPads and other tablet computers.

Biometric Time & Attendance for Mobile Workforces

Biometric technology is inhibitive for some companies because of the cost of terminals. And that’s not even talking about a company with mobile employees. So you may be wondering how it could be feasible to deploy a biometric time and attendance system for companies with mobile workforces.

To bring biometric time and attendance to the mobile workforce in a cost effective manner, Acumen recommends combining telephony with our time and attendance software. While not normally considered biometrics, video of the employee at the worksite can be quickly and easily captured and emailed to managers for a low-cost time and attendance process that eliminates buddy punching.

While this system would not be appropriate at the enterprise-level, we think it’s a great way for small businesses to eliminate buddy punching.

Now, we try to consider every “what if.” To prevent employees from re-using videos of themselves, they could hold-up another phone that is displaying the time and date. To prevent employees from sending a video from a location other than their intended location, they could punch in front of the building or at the mailbox showing the address. It’s clunky - we admit - but can eliminate buddy punching for mobile workforce in a very cost effective way.

Please contact us to learn more about our employee time and attendance systems or request a quote today.