| As an HR person, you always had this difficult problem | | | | reports to each employee, at the end of every month. |
| of managing latecomers. And many times you tried | | | | Let the employees know that they are being traced. |
| convincing yourself that some employees are too hard | | | | Send department wise attendance reports to |
| to change, no matter how you motivate them. | | | | department managers |
| Here are some points to stop late comings forever, | | | | 5. Implement new company policies: If your company |
| with guaranteed results. | | | | doesn’t have good policies on late comings, create |
| 1. Track your employees with an accuracy of minutes: | | | | new policies. For eg. If an employee is late for more |
| The first and foremost thing to do is to record | | | | than three times a month, he loses salary for a day. |
| employee in/out times accurately. As a human, it’s | | | | 6. Motivate your employees; find employee of the |
| impossible for you to track an employee every time | | | | month: As you have accurate attendance data, find |
| he comes in or goes out. You can automate this by | | | | the employee with the best attendance record for the |
| using a time attendance device. If you don’t have | | | | month. Display the information in your notice board, |
| one, buy a new one; it doesn’t cost much. | | | | publish it in your internal website, and motivate other |
| 2. Attendance tracking, with an option for manual | | | | employees. |
| editing: Time Attendance devices are very accurate in | | | | Just imagine doing all these manually; it’s nearly |
| tracking your employees. But as a manager it should | | | | impossible. You really need a software that can |
| be possible for you to add, delete or edit data coming | | | | automate all these. A good HR software can do the |
| in from time attendance devices. Sometimes, one of | | | | following for you: |
| your employees is late because he was on a client | | | | 1. Interprets data coming in from a time attendance |
| visit. Your time attendance device will indicate it as a | | | | devices |
| late coming, but as a manager you want to change | | | | 2. Allows manual editing of interpreted time attendance |
| the data to include the fact. | | | | data |
| 3. Consolidate and analyze your findings: So you had | | | | 3. Generates consolidated employee, department wise |
| been tracking employees for some time; now, | | | | reports |
| consolidate your findings. Create employee wise | | | | 4. Sends consolidated reports to employees and |
| monthly or weekly reports on latecomers. Also create | | | | management each month end. |
| department wise reports on latecomers. Analyze how | | | | 5. Processes salary considering your attendance rules |
| many hours were lost because of latecomers. | | | | and company policies. |
| 4. Present your findings to your employees and | | | | 6. Generates attendance summary to find the |
| management. Send monthly attendance summary | | | | employee of the month. |