SCENARIO: CONSTRUCTION SITES
The current time clocking scenario in the construction industry
Construction companies would agree that they do not have the luxury of managing their time and attendance from a fixed site. New sites come up and old ones close down all too often. It is a challenging environment to monitor staff time clocking. It is not practical to install fixed biometric readers track time and attendance. Most construction sites resort to recording time clocking manually. The result?
Buddy clocking:
Who is signing attendance for whom? Nobody would ever know with the manual time clocking method. The site may have ten staff, but the company may be paying for twelve. Small leakages like these add up at the end of the day and could result in big losses eventually.
Manual errors:
Even in a perfect world where everyone is honest and truthful at clocking time, there is scope for mistakes. There can be date errors or spelling errors. Onsite staff may not be educated enough to realize it and it may go completely unnoticed.
Reconciliation pain:
Manual time clocking at the end of the day, week or month has to be converted into digital data e.g. Excel for payroll processing. It can be many days of unproductive work, further prone to errors.
How can the construction industry improve their time clocking systems?
Biometric Time Solutions offers a mobile time and attendance system called JT Clock for time clocking in the construction industry.
Our JT Clock App offers the following features and functions:
Portability:
Your sites keep changing but you don’t have to invest in time clocking infrastructure. Our JT Clock App is completely mobile and allows your staff to be clocked in Teams i.e. the supervisor clocks his team on his/her mobile phone or each staff member can clock themselves on their own mobile phone.
JT Clock needs no fixed hardware. It works on Android or iOS mobile phones.
No proxy:
What you see is what you get! Our JT Clock system cannot be fudged or overridden. Besides, the App works in the most complex scenarios too:
- Construction site has low-light or works on night shift? No problem, our system uses the onboard mobile phone light for darker environments.
- Construction site is in a remote location with no internet? JT Clock works offline too.
- You still want some form of biometric authentication? We can do this too. We utilise the onboard biometrics of the mobile phone to authenticate staff when they clock. We can also take a photo of the staff when they clock utilising the onboard camera
- Need assurance that the staff are actually onsite when they clock? Each clocking can be linked to a GPS coordinate so you can see exactly where each staff member was when they clocked.
JT Clock is a tried and tested solution even for the most remote and harshest environments. All you need is a mobile phone. Less hardware = less things that can go wrong.
Fast onboarding:
When you have staff that keeps changing every day, you cannot afford to have a slow or long onboarding system. There is no need to have staff onboarded at a head office. The staff information is captured in our software and sent to the mobile clocking device. The staff member can begin clocking straight after this. Our mobile time and attendance systems are geared and optimised for ease of use.
Geo-fencing:
If you want to restrict the time clocking attendance of a worker to one site, you can do that using our Geo Fencing technology. We allow you to fence the attendance by marking the GPS location of the site. He can mark his time clocking only within those geographical boundaries.
All clockings get stamped with GPS location and time, so you have a verifiable audit trail at all times.
Let JT Clock manage your staff time clocking and allow you to manage your construction projects.
Conclusion:
Any business in any industry that needs a mobile time and attendance system can rely on JT Clock from Biometric Time Solutions. The system is cost-effective as you do not need any time clocking hardware. The system is also very easy to use which speeds up clocking time and allows your staff to focus on the job at hand. Eliminate buddy clocking, recording and calculation errors by utilizing our mobile time and attendance technology.
For more information contact Biometric Time Solutions for a free consultation, free quote or a free demo.
