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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?"
Do employers trust employees anymore?
I can understand having a clock in some environments, but I dont see the need for a clock in the typical Office Space style workplaces. My own timesheet doesn't even ask for times, just the total hours worked for each day and for what contract. My supervisor signs the sheet at the end of the week, and I feel it's more than sufficient. If someone feels that there's some tampering or other shenanigans going on, there are ways to figure that out. Like when they're work doesn't get done, or keeping tabs on when they actually show up and leave the office.
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
We use Kronos timecard at my place of employment, and I can tell you - catagorically - that it is a big peice of shit.
Every time you want to login or log out, gotta wait for the java plugin to load, also it has problems refreshing the timecard after you JUST PUNCHED causing many employees to punch duplicates because it shows they didn't. The interface is bad on so many levels. God, I hate it.