How Do You Punch In?

grantedparole asks: "My company is planning to switch from an antiquated punch card time clock to a software based time clock, and a recent search on Google yielded many results. Searching on Freshmeat for 'timeclock' yielded two results, both of which do not appear to have any recent updates. Searching for 'time clock' returned more results, but all of those seem geared towards project management, rather than real world time keeping for many employees who don't work on projects (ie: sales people). What are the people on Slashdot using and is it running on *nix?"

Comments

Kronos?

[JLester]

Have you looked at Kronos? It is a very nice system with lots of features. You can clock in/out via terminals, fingerprint scanning, web pages, Palm Pilots, etc. It integrates with most payroll systems to keep track of vacation/sick days and such. We were seriously looking at it for a project, but the price was fairly steep for our complexity. With some new workplace regulations regarding leave time though, you would be completely covered with a system like this.

Jason

I'm salaried...

[Chester K]

I'm a salaried employee, so I don't punch a clock.

Those of our employees that do, however, use a mechanical punch clock with time cards. There's a lot to be said for an incorruptable paper trail when it comes to money owed.

parking lot camera

[glassesmonkey]

You know what would be KEWL is a webcam that updates every min and some image processing that says car here or not here for each spot and then given employees assigned parking spots!!!

You could automate the whole process of time clocks for the whole building and even have those too long lunches noted. It's so brillant it's evil. OR the barcode on cars for the whole gate thing, just need to also include it on the exits.

Caveats: car pooling.. (F U environment) and motorcycles (F U rebels.. oh wait) and Bill Gates helo-pad / personal jetpack