Time clocks are coming soon to a location near you….There will be no more timesheets, instead there will be a timeclock–& employees will be expected to punch in & out!
Via either the time clock or the desktop PC, employees will time their time in and time out. They will approve their time card at the end of each pay period. They will be able to view available leave balances, request time off, and view time from prior pay periods.
Some time clock facts: Did you know…
The first time clock was invented in November 20, 1888, by Willard Bundy, a jeweler in Auburn, New York.
A year later his brother, Harlow Bundy, organized the Bundy Manufacturing Company, and began mass producing time clocks. Bundy Manufacturing, along with two other time equipment businesses, was consolidated into the International Time Recording Company (ITR). In 1911 ITR and two other companies were merged, forming Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR), which would later change its name to IBM. In 1958 IBM’s Time Equipment Division was sold to the Simplex Time Recorder Company. The time cards usually had the workdays and time in and time out areas marked on them so that employees could “punch in” or “punch out” in the correct place. The employee was responsible to line up the correct area of the card to be punched with an indicator on the time card.
A time clock, sometimes known as a clock card machine or punch clock or time recorder, is a mechanical (or electronic) timepiece used to assist in tracking the hours an employee of a company worked. In regards to mechanical time clocks this was accomplished by inserting a heavy paper card, called a time card, into a slot on the time clock. When the time card hit a contact at the rear of the slot, the machine would print day and time information on the card. This allowed a timekeeper to have an official record of the hours an employee worked to calculate and pay an employee.
The first punch-card system to be linked to a Z80 microprocessor was developed by Kronos Incorporated (which is who Nova Southeastern University will be using) in the late 1970s and introduced as a product in 1979. In the 1990s, time clocks started to move away from the mechanical version to computer based, electronic time tracking systems. On these systems, the employee enters an employee number, swipes a magnetic stripe card, or brings an RFID tag into proximity with a reader, or uses some other device to identify the employee to the system. Based on the system being used, the employee then enters what should be recorded.
This is also known as “punching in”, “punching out”. Lunch breaks, reason for leaving early, or any other type of information the employer requires is noted on the system.
So when will this all be implemented?
Nova expects to have them up & running by Saturday, March 21st 2009, which is the beginning of a new pay period.
Training is being offered to employees which will show us how to correctly navigate the system &, “punch in” & “punch out”.
For tutorials and how to guides, please access Kronos Knowledge Pass.
You will need to register at the above site. Please enter your user name and password and use the company code, 6085670, when prompted. NSU’s product version is 6.0.
Once you have registered at the site, you will have 24/7 access to find helps and tutorials to guide you through each task in SharkTime.
Good Luck & HAPPY PUNCHING!!
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