Why Companies Are Using Biometric Punch Clocks?
Companies looking for methods to streamline productivity and prevent unnecessary expenses are beginning to turn to biometric punch clocks. One of the most unnecessary losses faced by employers is time loss and theft, which is solved with the use of a biometric time clock.
Many times employees will sign in their buddies if they are running late or they will sign themselves in on paper cards as if they were on time. Time theft has become such a problem that some employees will be paid for work when they were not at work. These punch clocks prevent time theft by employees by using fingerprint recognition technology or hand geometry recognition to sign employees in and out of the workplace. In this manner the employee cannot alter the time and only the employee can sign in for himself or herself.
Employees clock in by sliding their finger or hand into the reader, which then identifies the employee and clocks them in. This technology has the potential to save companies thousands of dollars a year in time theft. Companies already using this technology have reported an average of a 10% drop in payroll losses. Biometric punch clocks are making their way into the private business sector for this very reason.
There is a wide range of companies marketing these clocks. This can make it confusing for some companies to choose which type of clock would work best for them. Each company marketing these clocks all have their own claims about them, some of which are true and some of which are not true. They also lent themselves to honest mistakes made by reading a card inaccurately. Some biometric punch clocks integrate well with existing office software, however some requires additional software to operate. Sometimes this software is difficult to install and takes up quite a bit of memory.
Most biometric punch clocks are easy to use and make payroll easier on the employer and more accurate. There are fewer payroll disputes in companies because of this technology. There are no time cards to read so accuracy improves. There are some concerns that employees have. One of the concerns expressed by both employees and employers alike is the safety of biometric employee punch clocks. The manufacturers of biometric punch clocks have addressed this concern.
They have engineered these clocks so that it creates a template of 25 to 30 distinct points and matches them on a one to one basis to identify the person. This one to one matching is unlike what is done by police scanners that match on a one to many bases. The template created by the one to one matching cannot be reverse engineered to create a full fingerprint. Therefore the security of the biometric punch clock should no longer be of any concern to either employer or employee. However another concern among employees is the intrusion on personal freedom and identity. Sometimes these fingerprints go into a national registry and many employees feel that it is no different than the national id system.
These concerns can leave many companies wondering how to handle a situation in which employees refuse to use a biometric punch clock. The solution for some companies is to keep the old method for some while implementing the new biometrics into the system.
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