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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?"
Oh, and give them root access too.
My company uses Kronos and it's marketed well, but in our experience poorly implemented. The time clocks are connected to the main system by dial-up modems which means that a computer with a modem has to dial them up every so often to collect the punches. In our case Kronos set this up on a DESKTOP computer. For managers to access the Kronos information, they have to install a client and map a drive to this "server". Unfortunately Windows 2K Professional limits you to 10 concurrent connections which limits how many people can use the Kronos system at once. We've also had problems with it integrating into our Payroll and Accounting systems. I only had 40 hours of vacation this year, but at one point it showed up as me having used 120 hours. As with any system, shop around, get references (and check them).