Can Modernizing Your Time Sheets Make Your Company More Secure?

Time sheets are something which most businesses, most likely including yours spend quite a bit of time working with. Your accounting or bookkeeping department spends hours every week (or two weeks, depending on your company’s payroll schedule) tallying up employee hours and preparing payroll. It’s one of those necessary tasks which every business has to take care of to keep things running smoothly – but what if your company could reduce the amount of time it takes to get payroll together to almost none? Better still, what if the same system which streamlined this part of your operations could also provide your corporate facilities with increased security from the prying eyes of competitors, unscrupulous employees stealing sensitive data and from break ins?

What kind of technology can provide you with all this, you ask? Biometrics. This technology has both advanced and come down in price to the point where a biometric time and attendance system to replace conventional time sheets and biometric access control systems to provide security are well within the reach of even small businesses. If your company isn’t using biometric technology yet, maybe it’s time you took a closer look at what these systems have to offer over traditional time sheets.

Security Isn’t Just About Keeping Intruders Out Of Your Building

Unfortunately, there are threats to the security and the financial well-being of your company which may come from within your own staff. Other than the risk of criminals and the employees of competitors seeking positions with your company in the interests of stealing trade secrets or financial information to commit identity theft, there is also the risk of time theft; a crime of opportunity where employees clock in and leave the building (or have others clock in for them) and attempt to receive pay based on time sheets which don’t reflect the hours actually spent working. It’s something which goes on to some extent in virtually every business – and it may be losing your company money as well. A biometric time and attendance system eliminates the opportunity for time theft, potentially producing dramatic savings for your company.

Biometric Access Control Keeps Information And Property Secure

A biometric system allows every employee to have their own unique access code to enter the building or specific areas of the building. This code may be a PIN code or their own fingerprints, but these systems allow you to know exactly who has been where in your facilities as well as offering a much more accurate attendance tracking system than punch cards or time sheets.

Biometric technology allows your company to lower overhead costs and secure itself from threats from the outside; or from the inside. It’s affordable and easy to install – these systems can be in place in less than a day and provide savings which make the system more than pay for itself in very little time. Replacing your time sheets with a biometric attendance and access control system is a smart investment in the future of your business, whether for security’s sake or to bring up your bottom line.