Posts Tagged ‘employee labour costing’

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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Can You Refuse To Pay An Employee/Contractor Due To Inefficiency?

August 15th, 2013

Every manager or supervisor who works in a project-based work environment, has certainly experienced the issue of inefficiency. Of course, if an employee is intentionally slacking off, then there are disciplinary measures that can take place. But inefficiency doesn’t always need to relate to work ethic. But, if someone does a job slower, therefore extending the completion date of a project, do you know if you can withhold some or all that pay cheque?

Technically, the answer to that question is no. If an individual is working their scheduled shift, and putting effort into their accomplishments, then it can be …

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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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Keeping Labour Costs on Track

July 13th, 2013

Regardless of the type of business that you operate, calculating labour costs is an essential part of the process. Your labour costs factor into the big financial picture of any business. The target percentage does vary by business and a number of other factors. However, some things that always need to be considered when it comes to keeping labour costs on track.

A focus on time management skills – labour costing involves knowing how to do the math correctly, and planning the weekly schedule accordingly. In order to meet these targets, you have to set realistic goals regarding what can …

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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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