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Affordable Care Act

What the Affordable Care Act Means for Your Time and Attendance

With PPACA, or Obamacare, postponed to January 1st, 2015, you may not know that you, as an employer, are required to begin tracking your employees and their hours for the 2014 work year. Many large employers will be required to report the full-time status of each of their employees to the IRS, beginning in 2015. The majority of employers will have to rely on 2014 year time records to make an accurate determination of their workers and hours clocked in. While this will be no easy task, the best way to capture accurate time histories is by employing a reliable time and attendance system.

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5 Benefits of Facial Recognition Systems for Time and Attendance

5 Benefits of Facial Recognition Systems for Time and Attendance

AMGtime continues to lead the world of time attendance software with their most recent innovative addition to their system; facial recognition! AMGtime’s Facial Recognition System provides its customers with this simple, carefree software that is sure to supply even more accurate time attendance record. An employee’s identity is immediately verified just by looking at the time clock! So, let’s take a quick look at just a few of the plethora of benefits facial recognition has to offer to the time and attendance system world.

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Holiday Tracking with Time and Attendance Systems

Holiday Tracking with Time and Attendance Systems

It wasn’t very long ago that keeping track of every employee’s sick days, personal days, company days, and holidays was simply an administrative nightmare.  Time and money was lost having to figure out who had taken which day off and how many days they had accrued and used – a frustrating and time-consuming job.  In the past, these days were tallied in individual employee files, creating a completely inaccurate system.  Some companies may have even used spreadsheets or time-consuming computer programs that did little to get the job done. So, let’s fast forward to today, and…Utilizing electronic time and attendance systems is now a perfect way to eliminate inefficiency, saving time and money for all.

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Essential Time and Attendance Tips for Schools

Essential Time and Attendance Tips for Schools

Both public and private schools employ and require a huge number of employees to keep everything running smoothly. From the custodial staff to the secretary at the front desk to countless people in between, a school cannot function without these valued employees. However, while schools are not a business in the typical sense, they are often subject to strict budgets where literally every penny counts. This makes providing accurate payroll accounting systems absolutely essential. While, of course, each employee should be paid for all hours worked, a school cannot afford to waste thousands of dollars in inefficient or inaccurate payroll errors either.

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Geo-Fencing: Your Time and Attendance Mobile App Solutions

Geo-Fencing: Your Time and Attendance Mobile App Solutions

One of the most important and cost-saving measures a company, whose employees travel and do not necessarily sit in a cubicle or desk each day, can take is to accurately track and monitor employee movements and time. The more customers that receive your goods or service in a timely manner, the more money you ultimately make, right? So, think about it. Do you have technicians that spend far too many or too few hours at a job site? Are they completing too few jobs in a day or spending a lot of time on the road? Is this affecting your company’s overall bottom line? Being able to strategically monitor these times and movements is important to ensure your employee’s safety, control your company’s labor costs, and protect your company’s reputation.

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