Posted on 27-Sep-08 by The Timekeeper

In conjunction with National Payroll Week 2008, CyberShift and the American Payroll Association released the results of a survey that reveals maintaining accurate time and attendance records is a top priority for most companies. (As well it should be!) The survey polled over 1,500 treasurers, controllers, vice presidents, directors and payroll managers working for companies ranging in size from less than 500 employees to over 10,000 employees.

But here’s the weird part. According to the survey, a majority of respondents still use pretty old-fashioned methods for tracking time… things like hand-written timesheets and Excel spreadsheets. Not too surprising for regular readers of this blog, nearly 20% also said they encouter errors pretty much every payroll cycle.

Now, put that together with the increase in wage and hour lawsuits and DOL enforcement and you’ve got yet another reason to automate your time and attendance tracking. Those data downloads directly to your payroll processor or software can really cut out those clerical errors (not to mention saving you a ton of time on payroll prep).

Food for thought, eh?

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