Tracking employee hours is crucial for ensuring a positive worker experience and optimizing workforce operations, but the process can be quite challenging. Many organizations still rely on an outdated or manual approach, which leads to inefficiencies, errors, and compliance issues that can negatively impact their bottom line. To get it right, employers need an effective timekeeping strategy to boost payroll accuracy, job satisfaction, and transparency into time and labor. Below we’ll dive into everything you need to know about how to track employee hours, how to choose the right tools for your ..read more

In the modern workplace, employees are often required to handle their tasks away from their desks or on the road. Mobile app solutions can provide them with a lot more flexibility and accessibility in a dynamic work environment across industries. The new Humanity mobile app aims to build a first-class employee scheduling and time-tracking experience by delivering a mobile-first approach that empowers employees and managers. The enhanced app provides a single hub for all essential functions like shift trading and real-time notifications, transforming daily operations into a seamless and satisfy ..read more

The short break confirmation feature provides more accurate break tracking, making it easy for managers to track when and why breaks are shortened while also reducing compliance risk and improving staff experiences. Compliance with break labor laws is most notably enforced in the state of California but may be stringently enforced in other states/municipalities as well. Here are some of the key benefits to using the short break confirmation feature: Automated tracking of shortened breaks: TimeClock Plus automatically records early returns from breaks and the rationale provided by the employee ..read more

Forms are indispensable in the public safety community, serving as essential tools for documentation, accountability, and compliance with legal standards. They enhance efficiency and communication across various departments, ensuring that critical information is systematically recorded and conveyed. Additionally, standardized data collection via forms facilitates effective analysis and strategic decision-making, crucial for improving public safety operations. Yet, many agencies continue to grapple with outdated, paper-based systems for managing forms, leading to inefficiencies and errors that ..read more

Shift scheduling is an essential part of meeting the needs of organizations across many industries. However, maintaining compliance, ensuring a healthy work-life balance for employees, and matching demand requires an efficient, transparent shift scheduling process that management teams often struggle to get right. Complex scheduling policies and a lack of workforce visibility can make effective scheduling a time-consuming, error-prone task. And without an efficient process that meets the needs of its operations and employees, an organization’s reputation and bottom line both suffer. To overcom ..read more

Accurate, efficient job costing is a crucial part of an organization’s ability to forecast, plan, and budget properly. Yet many firms still struggle to get it right, as ineffective job costing processes are time-consuming and error-prone—particularly when it comes to tracking labor costs. Some organizations use complex codes to track time and labor by project, subtask, work orders, client, equipment, or part numbers. Coupled with processes and platforms that don’t offer automation, these functions leave room for human error that can negatively impact billing, invoicing, and budgeting accuracy ..read more

Ensuring shifts are adequately staffed often requires overtime. Overtime pay is a critical aspect of employment law that impacts the relationship between employers and employees, making it essential to compensate employees fairly and accurately for their overtime work. But what exactly constitutes overtime, and how do we compute it? This article takes an in-depth look at overtime pay, how it works, rules and regulations, how to calculate it and upcoming proposed changes to overtime pay rules. Table of Contents Toggle What is overtime pay? How does overtime pay work? Types of overtime How to ..read more

The crux of any successful organization is its workforce, composed of engaged, motivated employees who feel they’re valued by their employer. A key part of ensuring a positive employee experience that drives workers to put forth their best efforts on the job is offering fair policies for a healthy work-life balance. For that reason, it can be beneficial for organizations to create, maintain, and closely examine their paid holiday offerings—both to improve the employee experience, and consequently, their bottom line. But the process of developing and maintaining a paid holiday policy is not fre ..read more

The integration of TimeClock Plus and Humanity represents an exciting leap forward in time, attendance, and employee scheduling solutions. By merging two leading solutions into a unified experience, the integration amplifies the ability of Humanity and TimeClock Plus customers to improve payroll and scheduling accuracy, mitigate compliance risk, boost efficiencies, and offer standout employee experiences. It also eliminates dual-entry and delivers positive employee experiences with a single mobile app experience, SSO, and the ability to move between platforms with just one click. Why this mat ..read more

Keeping everyone in the loop is essential to all districts. InstaSub’s Announcements feature allows administrators to broadcast messages efficiently to specific groups or individuals, ensuring no one misses out on vital information. Administrators can easily access the Announcements tab on the far left drop down menu within the application: Here’s how to make the most of this feature: Targeted messaging: Use the ‘Select District’ and ‘Select School’ dropdowns to tailor your audience. Whether you want to reach teachers, non-teaching staff, or substitutes, InstaSub lets you pinpoint your recip ..read more