Today we continue our series Avoid These 8 Major Pitfalls to Succeed In Your Business to discuss the harsh reality of employee time theft. It’s a problem that costs American businesses up to $400 billion a year in lost productivity. These are unpleasant facts that companies don’t want to face, so the solution is to use best practices to prevent time theft from happening. Our employee time clock app can help. Our customers tell us they save about 5% or more on labor costs.

Solutions to the Employee Time Problem

Employee time theft can happen in any kind of business. Small businesses with off-site, hourly employees have special challenges. Employees work with limited supervision, which leaves many opportunities for time theft. Supervisors can’t be everywhere all of the time. We’ve already discussed replacing handwritten timesheets in this series, and that is the first step to eliminating employee time theft. Your employees create time cards in our timekeeping system by clocking in, clocking out on our app, or calling a toll-free number. This increased level of accountability is the foundation for eradicating time theft from your business.

The next step to tighten the screws on employee time theft is to ensure when your employees clock in and clock out, they are at your job site, not at the bar watching Monday Night Football. We have discussed before how our system uses smart GPS technology to solve this problem. We recognize, however, that not all employees have smartphones, so you need a solution for the 33% who need to clock in by a phone call. The best practice, in this case, is for your employees to use a landline phone at your job site. We report the caller ID of every call to clock in, and clock out, which you can review, but that’s not all. We have a Linked Phone feature that allows you to link a job site landline to a job code. When linked, the employee has to physically be on-site to clock in and clock out.

Don’t know all of the phone numbers at your job sites? No worries! We have an easy process to help with that, and we can explain more when you sign up. When we’re done, your employees will be forced to be on-site, calling from the linked job site phones to clock in and clock out.

Employee time theft can be prevented, and it’s simple to do. You just need the right tools. You need Smart Time Tracking.

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