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JobClock Timesummit software integrates with several SAGE Products

August 18th, 2013

From the desk of the developers of the JobClock System…….The ExakTime team traveled to Washington D.C. July 21-26 to attend Sage Summit 2013, the largest gathering of the year for Sage customers and business partners.

A Certified Development Partner, ExakTime exhibited at the show for the first time, showing off new hardware and software to vendors, current customers and new friends. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive and the team came back with many new connections from the event.
The ExakTime-Sage connection

For years, ExakTime’s time and attendance system has shared data back and forth with Sage software – with …

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Benefits of Time Clock Systems

August 9th, 2013

If you have been following our blog for some time, you likely already know what the benefits of such a system are. But this refresher should get you thinking about how you can tighten your belt to make payroll and hour tracking even more efficient and accurate.

 

Accurate payroll – when a system is automatically generating accurate data about the hours worked, their pay cheques should automatically be correct every single time with no missing hours!
Less opportunity to forget to clock in or clock out – when a manual system is used, it’s hard to remember to sign …

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Simple employee Labour Costing with your mobile device

May 5th, 2013

Enter your employee number, select Go, choose a jobsite and optionally select your cost center – It is that easy!

Labour Costing employees for anybody who has tried is one of the most challenging employee time collection problems in any business today that needs good, correct, current employee labour data broken down.

After talking to hundreds of businesses over more than a decade I understand the challengers you face. From all the discussions I have had with a wide selection of industries the single biggest challenge is actually collecting the data in the first place.

The biggest single challenge for …

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Pay Rate Adjustments When Minimum Wage Increases

March 27th, 2013

If you are paying your employees by the hour, and they are receiving minimum wage, at some point during their tenure, you re going to need to adjust their payment rate. Australia’s Fair Work Commission evaluates wages on an annual basis. As of April 2013, the minimum wage was set at $15.96, and there are already talks happening to increase minimum wage even further. If this occurs, rates need to be adjusted in the following ways:

Those being paid minimum wage need to be paid the new, adjusted rate.
Those being paid above minimum wage whose rate is surpassed with the increase, …

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Options for Tracking Employee Hours

March 6th, 2013

In order to pay your employees it is necessary to keep track of employee hours. No matter what you will need to apply an element of trust with your employees – but, there are a number of different ways that you can keep tabs for payroll purposes and efficiency data.

Timesheets – the old-fashioned way of tracking employee hours is to have staff fill our timesheets outlining the time that they started work, and the time that they completed the job. You can have them itemize what they accomplished during their shift in order to keep track of their efficiency.
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Common Employee Issues That Require Discipline

December 27th, 2012

There are a number of different issues that a company’s human resources department may need to deal with when it comes to employees that are inefficient. For example:

An employee that regularly complains – an employee may spend too much time complaining about their job and things happening in the company, leaving little time to actually accomplish what they need to. This type of employee also ends up creating a negative environment in the office.
An employee who is never consistent – this type of employee works hard some of the time, and then suddenly starts to lose focus. You …

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What If You’ve Got an Employee Who is Inefficient?

December 13th, 2012

In every workplace, there is someone who typically drags the rest of the team down, with a complete lack of productivity. This kind of employee just doesn’t do their part, and may even come up with excuses as to why they aren’t meeting deadlines. He or she may take phone calls, or send text messages during regular working hours.

If you’re considering whether or not they are worth keeping on the project, there are a number of things that you can do:

Talk to their supervisor – a supervisor on the job can provide insight as to whether or not …

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Can my employee or contractors clock in for each other?

December 4th, 2012

I get asked this question a lot and here is a recent answer to another customer asking the same question….

From the customer… Is there a way to stop employees/contractors from giving there card to other employees and getting them to clock on/off?

There is no physical way to stop an employee cheating the system as you have explained, we understand this does happen from time to time.

You could consider a fingerprint control process where the only way an employee could clock in and out was with a fingerprint, these portable systems for construction are 3-4 times …

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Can You Use a Portable Time Clock to Track Salaried Employees?

June 8th, 2012

A portable time clock, or any time and attendance system, is typically used to track hourly employees for payroll. But that doesn’t mean that this type of system doesn’t have other purposes! A portable time clock can also be used for salaried employees in the following ways:

To determine the actual scope of their job duties – a salaried employee can use a portable time clock to track time spent on various tasks. This can be useful to get an accurate scope of the job for future hiring, allocation of responsibilities in the workplace, and more.
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Disciplining Employees That Don’t Clock In

May 25th, 2012

Despite what the laws say, most employers do not want to neglect paying an employee who was present and working; even if they forgot to clock in as required. So what other options do you have to ensure that they don’t do it again in the future?

Pay only for their scheduled shift – if the employee stayed an extra 30 minutes after their shift to continue working, then consider paying them only for the time that they were initially scheduled to be there. After all, it may be the only verifiable time!
Include clocking-in under company policy – if clocking …

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