Manage Remote Teams with Cloud-Based Biometric Attendance System

Time = money in the workplace (especially in spaces where every minute matters), and biometric attendance systems provide a more intelligent, tamper-proof method to track the time of employee arrivals and departures. No too long ago it was possible to punch an out, missed appointment, for your buddy, report sick when you weren’t, misrepresent on a time sheet, or even swipe an ID to enter, and you would never be called out. Now, biometric attendance systems use individual characteristics such as fingerprints, facial recognition, and iris scanning to ensure professional-grade accuracy of employee movements.

With the certainty that biometric systems provide, there is no ambiguity surrounding timekeeping. Not only does the certainty build trust across the team, but it will also simplify future internal audits. For many organizations with large employee bases (or different shifts), the time, effort, and risk of error for timesheet-based platforms and manual attendance calculations can be arduous. By adopting biometric attendance systems, tracking employee attendance can be fully automated, and a tally of the most recent attendance records will always be accurate.

Furthermore, the systems usually need little upkeep (apart from maintenance) because they are designed to withstand environments with high user traffic. There are no passwords to remember or employee ID cards to carry; all an employee has to do is show up and they are accounted for! In sectors where compliance and workforce discipline is critical, biometric attendance systems allow for every employee to be accountable to company policies. More than a renewed technology, biometric attendance systems (like the word ‘biometric’) can also be seen as a change in workplace culture towards transparency, efficiency, and fairness.