3 must-dos when switching to automated time tracking
October 9, 2008 by Sam NarisiPosted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Payroll software, Time and attendance
Often, the hardest part of implementing new technology is getting the support of people who aren’t comfortable with it and will resist change.
That goes for electronic time and attendance tracking, too.
Here are three things companies must do to help ease the transition from a manual to automatic process:
- Stress how it benefits them — Instead of explaining how much money it’ll save the company or how it will make things easier for HR or management, stress the ways employees will benefit. For example, the system could reduce errors that leave them underpaid and eliminate the need to manually add up the hours every two weeks.
- Get them involved early in the process — When viewing demos for a new system or designing one in-house, it’s important to get the opinion of every affected party — that includes employees and managers. That will help you develop a system that works for everyone and aid the transition.
- Train employees — For any new technology project, training is a must.
Tags: automation, Time and attendance, time sheets
October 9th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Getting the employees on board is critical to make the transition to automatic time tracking. Some things that work for us are turning time tracking into a friendly competition to see who can track the most time. We’ve been using Intervals for our time tracking and have seen our billable hours increase since adapting it, so efficiency is a good reason, too, but more difficult to convey to your employees.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:24 am
Nice post Sam. These three things to do are quite important, but don’t forget about having an available support line feature for questions and issues that may arise. A good provider of automated timesheet software should be readily available to assist in ironing out any wrinkles that might come up while the transition is in progress and beyond.