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THE FOUR “T’S” OF MANAGING EMPLOYEE TIME RECORDS

In a post pandemic economy, managing your payroll cost is mission critical, and a key factor in this is managing how you capture the data you use to prepare your payroll. The question Who Worked When? is one employers have been asking forever. And now, being able to answer that…

MyTimesheets on the A Kiwi Original Podcast

Recently I was interviewed by Ryan Jennings of Buy NZ Made about how our MyTimesheets app is helping Kiwi businesses save money… through… more accurate timesheet management that ensures compliance with the Employment Relations Act, Holidays Act and the Health & Safety Employment Act. We also talk about why we…

We need to have a conversation about timesheets.

It’s 2020, and the old way we manage the recording of employee time and attendance (paper timesheets) is broken and no longer viable in today’s digital world. Timesheets get a bad rap, but they shouldn’t. Timesheets are mission critical. Your employees feel great when they are paid for the hours…

“Timecreep” – The hidden cost of using paper time sheets

The common view, when it comes to having employees track the hours they work via time sheets, is that it’s an easy process for them to complete the time sheet each week, so why improve the process. Yet, there is so much more to it and so many hidden costs,…

“Is it illegal to NOT keep time records for your staff” – Short answer = Yes.

We have all seen the media reports of employers not meeting their obligations to keep good records and it is likely that in the current economic environment we are going to see more. Under the following Acts, an employer is required to keep accurate time records of Who Worked When?…

“Employee Time Theft” Is Not The Issue. The Issue Is Accuracy And TRUST

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the term “Employee Time Theft”. It is an industry term bandied about by time and attendance vendors to scare employers into buying their systems. Yet I wonder whether “Time Theft” really is the key issue you should be looking to solve. I don’t think it is. The term “Time…

Know Who Visited When Keep your visitors, your team, and your business safe.

How can you keep your visitors, team and business safe in the current situation?

The other day I read a news story about how Sir James Dyson had re-purposed some of their production from vacuum cleaners to ventilators. There we also the stories of brewers and distillers making sanitiser. These stories inspired me. Having a business which depends on employees clocking in or recording timesheets is tough…

Copy of If you have employees working remotely and you need to track their hours

How do you manage employees time and attendance in challenging times such we are seeing with the COVID-19 Pandemic?

In the past week we have had calls from employers who have staff now working remotely or who don’t want staff using a shared device like a shared timeclock or who will struggle to get timesheets to their payroll admin who is now working from home. With employees working remotely,…

Plan B – Have you got a Business Continuity and contingency plan for dealing with impact of COVID-19

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin In light of what is currently going on in the world with COVID-19 it is critical that you have a plan b. Things are moving fast so being prepared is important. A business continuity plan (BCP) pinpoints the most important parts…

Have you got a Payroll Continuity Plan to cope with COVID-19?

One thing we have learned from past situations which disrupted business, such the Christchurch earthquake or even as far back as the Auckland Power Crisis (I still remember that one), is that they were incidents no-one saw coming and in some cases businesses were not prepared. In both of these…