Business Insights
Thanks To the Brave Soldiers Who Gave Their Lives for the USA!
We live in a great country and enjoy freedoms and opportunities unparalleled in human history. We want to honor the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice to guarantee and protect these blessings. John 15:13 says, "Greater love has no one than this, that...
How to Use a Time Clock
When it comes to keeping track of the hours your employees work, it can be easy to get lost in the influx of schedules, attendance tracking, timesheets, and payroll. Using a time clock, like Chronotek, can save you time with a web-based service that makes managing...
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, to prevent early clock ins, or even to boost employee pay? It’s important to accurately and legally round time clock punches to protect yourself and your business. Here are a few rounding rules to...
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...
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
Our mission is to help small business owners save money on payroll and save time processing payroll hours. So, while we felt that our online time clock app accomplished these goals, we wanted to survey our customers to see if we're hitting the mark - because as you...
GPS Breadcrumb Tracking Employees Is Messy
I walked into the kitchen and the countertop was littered with breadcrumbs. Unfortunately, my teenage son gets a little sloppy assembling his pb&j sandwiches - which leaves a mess for someone else (Mom or Dad) to clean up. While messy breadcrumbs may be a part of...
How To Track Employees With GPS The Right Way
Now that we live in the Jetson age, the amazing possibilities with technology are endless. One such technology that has gained a lot of popularity in recent years is GPS, especially with smartphone apps. Small business owners with remote employees have discovered that...
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 dream, it begins with getting and keeping happy customers. When employees routinely call out or just no-show, your...
