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Employee Absence Tracker, App & Excel Template
For a business to run efficiently, its employees need to show up on time and ready to complete their work. When employees are late or do not even show up for their shifts, this can cause problems not only for that employee and their supervisor but, more importantly,...
10 Employee Scheduling Techniques & Best Practices
Scheduling employees is a repetitive but necessary part of managing a business. While it might seem straightforward, there can be some bumps in the road while navigating employee availability, balanced workloads, and planning for the unexpected. Read on for our top...
Convert Time Clock Hours and Minutes to Decimals
Whether you calculate payroll monthly, bi-weekly, or even weekly, we can all agree that the time it takes to manually enter employee timesheets is time we'd rather spend on other work. Since payroll systems require the times to be in decimal format, this can create an...
How to Reduce Absenteeism in the Workplace
An employee’s alarm clock doesn’t go off and they are late for their shift. Children get sick and their parents have to stay home to take care of them, even if that means missing a few days of work. We’ve all experienced similar situations and don’t usually give them...
Rounding Time Sheets using the 7-Minute Rule
Are you rounding your employee’s time sheets to make payroll easier, prevent early clock-ins, or even boost employee pay? It’s essential to accurately and legally round time clock punches to protect yourself and your business. Here are a few rounding rules to keep in...
Monitoring Employee Locations in the Workplace: How Far is Too Far?
As technology continues to get more sophisticated year over year, concerns over privacy in the workplace continue to rise. Most employees understand that emails sent using a company email account or files stored on a company device are considered employer property....
The Best Online Time Clocks for Small Businesses
When you run a small business, it's important to find every way to maximize your time and money. Between managing employees, products and services, and facilities while also trying to grow, it can be challenging to juggle the moving parts with only a small team to...
Top 5 Employee Time Clocks for Small Business
One of the most effective tools for controlling labor costs is the time clock. And while punching a time card at a clock worked for many years, businesses can no longer afford to waste the effort it takes to manually fill out time sheets. That’s why more and more...
Are Your Remote Employees Working? Here are Three Tools to Help Your Team Stay Productive.
Whether your team is newly working from home or is regularly out on the job, it’s important to feel secure knowing that they are doing their work and accurately tracking it. But how do you keep track of a large team, lots of clients, or employees on the go? While...
The Top Two Ways Employees Steal Time and How To Prevent It
While you’re busy running your business, it can be hard to keep track of seemingly small problems like employees taking long breaks. But when your employees take advantage of these minutes meant to be used for work, it adds up in the long run. Let’s say your employee...
How to Set Up an Employee Clock-In Clock-Out System
Do you need help finding the right attendance tracking system for your employees? Chronotek offers three easy ways to clock in and out using our employee time tracking software. It’s simple for employees to use and connects seamlessly with our reporting tools so you...
Easily Track FFCRA Hours with Variable Pay Rates
We like to talk about buckets around here. No, not the cracked 5-gallon buckets that my parents used as flower pots. Instead, we use buckets to illustrate the power of our Payroll Snapshot to track employee hours with variable pay rates - because as you know, all...
Survey Shows – A Time Clock App Will Save Money On Payroll
A survey of our customers shows they save significant money and time using our employee time management system. They understand it’s an investment, not a cost. It’s time to replace your handwritten timesheets with an employee time clock app
GPS Breadcrumb Tracking Employees Is Messy
Are your employees on the job site? We answer this question with certainty using an exclusive GPS tracking technology instead of a messy, confusing breadcrumb trail.
How To Track Employees With GPS The Right Way
Track your employees’ GPS locations the right way to protect yourself and respect your employees’ privacy, but still know with certainty if they are on the job site.
5 Easy Ways to Solve Employee Attendance Problems
As small business owners, you have lofty dreams - build a Fortune 500 company, provide well for your family, save the pandas, who knows? Whatever your goal, it begins with getting and keeping happy customers. When employees routinely call out or are no-shows, your...
Do This One Best Business Practice Before Reopening
"We’ve marshaled every instrument of American power, and we’ve unleashed our most potent weapon of all: the courage of the American people." These were the words of President Trump on Thursday, April 16, when he announced a Covid-19 three-phase plan to reopen small...
Chronotek – Ultimate Time Tracking for Lifeguards
Warmer weather is here! As a result, lifeguard and pool management companies across the nation are preparing to open pools for a few months of sunshine and splashing in the water. With guest safety a top concern, pool companies need scheduling and time tracking tools...