Last year’s rapid and sometimes erratic transition to remote work left many businesses looking for new ways to understand employee behavior when working from home. According to a survey of 2,000 employers offering remote or hybrid work, 78 percent deployed employee monitoring software to track worker behavior in the past six months. As businesses emerge from the recent pandemic, it’s clear that some things will not return to business as usual.

As we’ve previously written, old-fashioned employee time tracking methods such as paper timecards or Excel come with several downsides. First, the payroll process is time consuming and error prone, as you have to manually tally hours and overtime. Second, you don’t know if your employees are in fact on the job when they’re punching in, rather than a coworker (and those extra minutes or hours that employees report working can lead to a significant waste of money).

Buddy Punch is an employee time tracking software where employees can punch in and out, and then all of the information needed for payroll (i.e. regular hours worked, paid time off, overtime, etc.) is automatically calculated and available in a payroll report. It’s easily accessible and takes just a few clicks to download (CSV, Excel).

In the eight years we’ve run Buddy Punch, we’ve had countless conversations with businesses about the challenges they faced when tracking time for their employees using traditional methods (i.e. paper time cards and timesheets, Excel spreadsheets, etc.). From those conversations, we’ve gathered that most businesses run into the same three problems: Turning to an employee time tracking and scheduling software can help you solve these specific challenges.

Your phone buzzes one Saturday afternoon. It’s a text message from an unknown number noting that there’s a big sale at one of your favorite stores. No pictures. No branding. Just a spammy-looking URL you’re told to click on to view more details. Now imagine getting that same text message, but this time, it’s a little different: It features clear and recognizable branding.

The human resources department is basically the backbone of a business. They hire new recruits, manage employee requests, onboard new employees, and ensure every department is working well together. But, with so many tasks to juggle, things can quickly become chaotic and HR projects can slip through the cracks. Luckily, there’s a solution: project management for HR.

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