Time and attendance system is a system which offers self-service which allows employees to record and manage many time-tracking tasks on its own. It also includes reviewing the hours of work, current and future schedules and PTO accrual. Many of these systems offer both cloud-based and on-premises solutions. The on-premises systems are stores on the servers within a business whereas the cloud-based systems are localized by time and attendance system provider and can be accessed online. It also helps to control labor costs by reducing over- payments which are often caused by paying employees for time that are not actually working. It helps to eliminate transcription errors, interpretation error and intentional errors. Such system can also be utilized to ensure compliance with labor regulations regarding proof of attendance.
Various companies like AVI Infosys in UAE offers range of biometric time and attendance system. It grants access to control products designed exclusively to enhance security and improve their performance accordingly. Other product line features like latest technologies, superior levels of durability and flawless error-less operation are backed by technical support and customer service guarantee. This entirely helps to make the system digital, smart and automated with time punctuation. A good system tracks daily attendance, breaks, overtime, transfers, overall working time and provides employee’s activities and actions in a way that can be provided with records to assist to improve the productivity. Employee attendance data can be captured through finger print, Iris recognition scanners, radio frequency tags, websites, remote time clocks and telephone systems. It surely helps in saving time and administration cost and thereby increases efficiency.
Biometric time and attendance system developed to ensure attendance by the right person which can avoid duplication by people with the help of other and escape from cheating an ordinary systems like ID card and password type. To overcome such type of malpractices, the biometric system works with use of biological identity. Iris, face recognition, finger prints and DNA are some of the types of physical biometric system whereas signature, keystroke, voice recognition are examples of behavior based practices. Iris and finger print attendance devices are most used biometric time attendance system used in UAE.
Advantages of using Time Attendance Solutions –
Time attendance management is key for businesses to reduce the impact of absences. Absenteeism can cost businesses a lot of money in terms of productivity and lost revenue. By managing and measuring time attendance, employers can get a better idea of how much time is being lost to absences. This helps them take steps to address the problem effectively. The only way to really understand the extent of the issue is to manage time attendance carefully.
The system provides employers a safe and dependable time management over the employees’ arrival and exit as well as automatically calculate working hours for calculation of salaries. It saves money by reducing the employee workforce in Human Resources departments who during ordinary setups take attendance manually in the organization. Various studies taken in Dubai has also shown that electronically managed time increases the work hours of the employees by reducing late arrivals and exits. It helps the organization to increase the productivity of the employees which ultimately increases profit ration per employee. Huge salaries devoted for recruiting employees for managing attendance can be avoided by introducing biometric time attendance system. Similarly, management of huge workforce from different nations need to trustworthy and dependable solution which can be done effectively with such tool system.
With increase of productivity, punctuality and loyalty from the employee can be improved since it helps to develop a habit and becomes a proper work culture in the organization which leads to improvement in their performance at work. Thus, automated time attendance system saves assets by reducing supervisory costs on arrival and departure of employee work force. With saving of time, money is also saved.
We have implemented more than 450 various biometric and swipe T&A systems, mainly solutions using fingerprint or RFID proximity cards, as well as several extensive security systems installations (CCTV, fire alarm, burglar alarm, LAN, etc) on our own.Our dedicated Access Control and Time and Attendance solutions are called BIOFINGER-AC/T&A, BIOFACE-AC/T&A and RFID-AC/T&A and our proprietary software is BIOFINGER/SW, BIOFINGER/SVR and BIOFINGER/Mobile.
Each time clock reader can record a variety of different statuses, including starting work [START] / finishing work [END], and indirect statuses like on-duty out/return and off-duty out/return.Biometric and proximity time clock readers can store up to 200,000 T&A statuses in their internal memory. If the limit is exceeded, old T&A statuses will be overwritten by new ones. To prevent potential problems, operators of the BIOFINGER/SW program should regularly download and delete T&A statuses from time clock readers.
Two time clock readers can be installed on a single base place. In this case users authorize starting work [START] by using the first reader and finishing work [END] on the second reader without pressing function buttons [START/END].We also offer solutions for increasing the safety of processing and storing employees’ biometrics data. In this case, the user of the Time and Attendance solution has his own biometric card, the so-called MIFARE card, in the memory of which digital images of fingerprints are stored.
The authorization process for a MIFARE biometric card occurs when the card is placed close to the biometric time clock reader. Identity is confirmed by placing the registered finger on the scanner. Another solution which may provide greater certainty about the identity of a Time and Attendance user is a biometric or proximity time clock reader with an inbuilt camera. The time clock reader with image registration function takes a photo of the user at the time of authorization and saves it in the memory of the device.
Depending on the choice of time clock reader and authorization method, BIOFINGER-T&A, BIOFACE-T&A, RFID-T&A users can record their working time (T&A statuses) by means of: