We all have issues with keeping track of when employees are late or miss work. Let’s face it — it’s a lot of work.
But for some of you out there, it’s, well…way more than just a minor question. Are you among the attendance tracking challenged?
Not sure?
No problem….here are the top 10 signs you need a serious employee attendance tracking intervention:
10) You recently had to hire a landscaping crew to cut a path through the stack of file folders, time sheets and time cards so you could get to your office
9) Your employee manual describing the allowable reasons for absence includes running out of ration coupons for gasoline
8 ) Your employees have officially renamed the “Weekly Employee Schedule” as the “Weekly Suggestion”
7) Your concept of overtime pay is ordering a couple of pizzas and saying “Nobody goes home until the job is done.”
6) Your employees get two weeks of paid leave a year. You haven’t recorded an absence in 6 years — but no one ever seems to be in their office when you look for them.
5) You have two locations, and six telecommuting employees…and one time clock in the front lobby of one building.
4) FMLA? What’s that? First… Final… Does that have anything to do with Facebook?
3) You have 1,432 absence codes, including types of illness, school year of sick child, brand of employee car and annual snow levels for employee neighborhoods. And the book describing when to use each one is 718 pages long.
2) If you fire an employee for missing work, your word should be good enough, right? Who needs proof?
And the number one sign you need help with tracking employee attendance is….
1) Tracking? You mean I was supposed to write that down somewhere????? Oh heck!
