Marketer of worker-monitoring program wants to clean clocks of hourly employees.Marketer of worker-monitoring program wants to clean clocks of hourly employees Hourly workers who used to think of a time clock as a simple mechanical device had better think again. Bud Jackson Jackson. 1 City (1990 pop. 37,446), seat of Jackson co., S Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1857. It is an industrial and commercial center in a farm region. , president of a privately held, employee attendance software company, DataMation Datamation - /day"t*-may"sh*n/ A magazine that many hackers assume all suits read. Used to question an unbelieved quote, as in "Did you read that in "Datamation?"" It used to publish something hackishly funny every once in a while, like the original paper on COME FROM in 1973, and Services Inc., Paramount, has recently won large customers, including Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. and Dole dole, distribution to the poor, usually of food or money. In medieval times doles were usually from bequests of money or land, and the income was given to charity or distributed to the local poor at funerals. Dried Fruit & Nut Co. "Employees are playing `beat the clock' and winning big," reads his promotional literature. "So big, in fact, that you're probably losing thousands of dollars each year." His time attendance software prevents employees from cheating the time clock, he says. The system calculates worker hours down to the nearest minute, not the nearest quarter hour, and keeps track of an employee's attendance history. The data is collected and stored directly into a personal computer, reducing the work in calculating the payroll. The system also eliminates the need for time cards, which can be lost or illegible il·leg·i·ble adj. Not legible or decipherable. il·leg  i·bil . Instead, it uses employee identification badges with magnetic stripes A small length of magnetic tape adhered to credit cards, badges, permits, passes and tokens. The tape is read by magnetic stripe readers incorporated into ATMs, identification readers and payment terminals. or bar codes. The losses from time card tricks can be great: If a company employs 50 people at $4.50 an hour and loses 10 minutes a day on each employee, it loses $9,563 by the end of the work year, he says. |
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