When I started consulting for a mid-sized manufacturing company last year, their HR manager showed me something curious: a filing cabinet stuffed with attendance sheets going back three years.
"We keep these for audits," she explained, gesturing at what must have been ten thousand pieces of paper. I asked why they hadn't moved to a digital system. "We tried," she said. "Bought expensive software. Nobody used it."
This happens more than you'd think. Companies invest in attendance tracking systems that employees hate, managers ignore, and HR departments eventually abandon.
This is not because people refuse to track time but because most daily attendance apps are built by people who've never actually had to clock in and out of work themselves.
After twenty-five years watching organisations struggle with this seemingly simple task, I've noticed something: the gap between a good self attendance app and a bad one is as wide as the gap between a professional chef and someone who can barely boil water.
Both might produce something edible, but one makes the process effortless while the other creates confusion.
A biometric attendance system for employees helps track and monitor when employees start and stop work without much manual intervention and with accuracy.
It enables an employer to record their employees?
working hours and arrivals and departures, the duration and number of breaks, and nonattendance.
